The WGA kill switch did kick in when I scheduled a chkdsk to run on next reboot. They are lying about it not kicking in – the keyboard was LOCKED – there was no prior notification – those WGA screens came up AFTER the keyboard was locked. Computer came up only in SAFE MODE. Corporate customer. When I clicked on RESOLVE now, it went to a go.microsoft site THAT NO LONGER EXISTS. I have witnesses to all this.

Computer was purchased 2 years ago.

Took it to Best Buy at 8pm. Best Buy looked at the hologram sticker and said the computer was genunine. Someone there mentioned the reseller – a MAJOR NORTHERN CALIFORNIA NAME – had been cited for non-genuine licenses, but that it was in the newspapers. This reseller was ALSO burned by Microsoft themselves. While acknowledging our company had been swindled, none of this was fair business practice, they offered their “911 service” – meaning, 24-hour turnaround – which would have cost us $900 dollars. They tried to figure out a way to lower the cost to us. However, all our biz programs would have to be reloaded. This means we’re SOL for 3 days.

So who knows what exactly is going on, except somewhere along the line a racketeer is being protected, and I’ll slam that on Bill Gates desk. The buck stops there.

I did however put up a new page that you can see up top (or somewhere on the site depending on the current theme) that lists my anime collection.  I am not bragging or anything but i do direct a few of my friends or acquaintances to my site to see what i have that i might lend them.  and rather than just posting a new post whenever i update it, i will just keep the constant page.

thats all for this post.  hopefully it won’t be to dated by the time folks read it, my site is in constant flux still, so i don’t know when or how it will ever change.

I tried getting the domain name of thewebpage.net but it was taken as well as several others. i settled on minorforces.net because it was able to convey sort of the same meaning and spirit as my page. That this page like so many similar to it are just small and rather insignificant specs in the greater picture of the internet. I have ported all of my old posts over to new new and fresh install of wordpress. i have ditched movable type as it is not as friendly to themes and plugins and also for the fact that it is no longer free. I like wordpress because it is still open source and HIGHLY customizable. i do have a task ahead of me of learning enough PHP to design my own theme.

that brings me to my last note, and that is that this site will be undergoing changes consistently and continually for a time to come. it is no secret that i am perpetually bad updating or posting to my page at any regular interval, and i also have a tendency to use my page mostly as a proof of concept staging ground for my ideas. I will try to post more frequently as i am now actually paying for my internet presence instead of just leeching off others, but the rest of my previous behavior will probably continue. I will be working on and tweaking the theme and layout as much as i can in the near furture. (well first i have to come up with an idea for a theme) If i can get any of my friends interested in my site there may be even more uses for it (i really hope so) such as a Bulletin Board forum, or a wiki, or a number of others. I will hopefully be posting a site contact email soon and possibly some other pages as well as just the post sections. Keep me on your radars but i don’t know what i will get accomplished when exactly.

So we have Microsoft buying “windows” and tiger direct buying “tiger” (essentially). appearently no one stopped to think about the fact that these are not conceptts made up by these companies for the sole purpose of being marketing tools. i know it is a shocker, but long before these companies existed, in fact long before current systems of ownership even existed windows and tigers existed.

Whats next? I imagine that abstract concepts will be next on the list. i envision bill gates michael eisner and george lucus sitting around in bill’s… oh lets say spaceship (oh you know he has one, he has everything else) brainstorming. They come up with the idea to buy the word/idea of “four”, and replace it with threive. (then Lorne Michaels and/or Jimmy Fallon come along and sue them) What a grand old world we live in.

(on anither note i think i will be creating a new category for randomness just such as this)

but it is late now and i am going to sleep, if i don’t post before new year’s i hope everyone has a fun and safe transition into the new year. ’05 should be good, i have a feeling.