Been trawling ’round some of my old favourites and found this SomethingAwful ICQ prank. It made me laugh again. Also this from the same site. Which was the inspiration for this song and flash video (I’m sure you’ve seen it before. PAK CHOOIE UNF)

So, my computer problems still haven’t gone away. The monitor has been replaced, but my connection still seems to be, in a word, crap. Not happy about it at all. And Demon don’t wanna know and BT doesn’t wanna know and I’m forking out actual cash that I don’t even have AT ALL for the privilege of having my BROADBAND connection lost at least once an hour if not every few minutes… and BT and Demon seem to want ME to tell THEM what the problem is – like, I’m some kind of engineer or something.

And then they threaten me by saying ‘If it’s anything to do with your equipment then you’ll have to pay (huge amounts of money) for our engineers to come out. ‘
and I’m like ‘And how am I supposed to know if it’s my equipment or not? And by the way my phone line is scratchy.’
And they say ‘Do you have a cordless phone?
‘Yes.’
‘It might be that.’
‘It’s a digital cordless phone.’
‘Well, it could be that. Try a phone with a cord.’
‘Are you saying I have to go BUY a new phone to find out if your phoneline is faulty?!’
‘Can you borrow one?’
‘Who has a phone with a cord anymore?!’
‘Well, try a phone with a cord.’

So I try a phone with a cord… and the line’s still scratchy.

‘It’s still scratchy.’
‘It might be something to do with your broadband.’
‘And…?’
‘You’ll have to talk to your ISP.’
‘Doesn’t BT provide the lines?’
‘Talk to your ISP.’

My ISP says it might be my filter… or BT… or something else that isn’t to do with them.

And all the while all I’m doing is just trying to get by, you know….I’m just trying to do what I do, be who I be, get on and go forward and then things go a bit wrong and I try to sort it out myself, can’t, and then people who I go to for help and assistance just don’t want to know, so dump it all back on me and more…so I just try to get by, you know…

I believe my computer is purely representing the state of my existence generally.

NOTE: I have kept most of my earliest blog posts private. They are mainly crap. I have, however, tried to make live at least one from each month.