Ebay: Buy, Sell, Put your Head through a Wall.

Its been years now since Ebay started up and revolutionized the exchange of goods in one fell swoop.  When you really stop and think about what Ebay created, man it's a really fucking awesome concept.  There is only one problem with it though...that is when you actually try sell something.  Thinking back I don't even remember the first thing I put on Ebay.  I was in my early 20's and Ebay was just picking up some steam.  What I do remember is a pretty smooth transaction and being pretty happy with the end result.  Still today I buy things on Ebay here and there and for the most part I don't have a problem.  Sure you can get screwed pretty bad if your not careful buying something on Ebay but selling is a different ball of wax.  Especially when your forced to deal with Billy Bob Joe Jerkoff with the ripped Nascar t-shirt beer farting into his couch and bidding on your items.  Then you have some ass breath from a third world country creating fake user accounts and bidding on your Xbox 360.  In my personal experience on this site lately being a seller on Ebay is just a fucking nightmare.  If you believe I am wrong, try to sell a laptop on there one of these days.  I wouldn't wish this pain and frustration on my worst enemy. I would rather lay my laptop on the Garden State Parkway in front of a 16 wheeler then deal with the absolutely stupid uninformed  cheap fucking people and their asinine questions and actions.  Believe me you will wind up punching the side of your oak dresser after getting the laptop sent back to you not because the laptop was DOA or got damaged in shipping, but because the sock sniffer on the other end is too stupid to set up the wireless card that came with it and can't connect it to the internet.  Another great return was because the laptop didn't have Firefox installed on it.  Yes the person actually didn't know how to install Firefox.  I can't even imagine how these drooling pillow biters get through the day with the level intelligence they have.  The examples I gave are real and terribly frustrating but the real kick in the dick is when you have your item in an auction for almost 7 full days watching the bids, only to have a criminal douche bag use a fake ebay account and win the auction in the last half hour.  You know what happens then right?  Ebay immediately has cancel the winning bid, and you get to start all over again.  Unless of course you want to offer to sell it to the people who came in second or third place in the auction and most of the time are cheap pieces of shit.  So you either sell it for less money than you would've made of start the auction over.  I bet more people would just get rid of it.  In summery like I said before the problem doesn't lie with the site itself. It's dealing with the people. This is primarily because most people are so fucking stupid it will physically hurt your brain.  Especially when it comes to buying and selling anything.  So unfortunately this is what makes Ebay suck more than the site itself.  I'm sure Ebay tries its best to combat human stupidity on a daily basis, but it is a battle they will never win.       

Try to Read an Article Online without Having a Seizure

Have you realized that lately trying to read an article online is like reading a magazine with a circus parade marching around you?  I mean Jesus Christ on a cross can I read one fucking article without a 4 by 8 inch advertisement popping up in front of or next to what I actually am interested in looking at?  No I don't want your shitty product and putting it in my face every 5 seconds is not going to change that.  In fact it only makes me actually hate the company and wish that Tyler Durden would set it on fire.  Lately if the ad doesn't just physically block what you are trying to read until you x click, then it smashes the article into a 1 inch fucking line of words that goes 14 feet down that page so the annoying advertisement can fit on the page next to it.  So if reading a paragraph that narrow didn't make you fucking brain hurt, well there is a huge blinking bright colored advertisement right next to it playing music with cartoons jumping all over the place playing instruments while animals mate in the background.  How the fuck are you supposed to read anything with this bullshit going on.  Come on I understand that these sites make their bread and butter from ads but where do you draw the line?  I think some of the site owners need a swift kick to the throat.  Stop being so greedy you bunch of wankers.  Because you know what keep pissing on the sites people like with these shitty ads and eventually no one will come back anymore.  Then what will you do with yourselves?  Move back in with mom and dad perhaps?

IIS 7.WTF

Here is another perfect example of the momos at Microsoft messing up a good thing.  In my line of work I've used IIS 6 for years without much trouble.  Sure there were a few bumps and bruises along the way but nothing to call for a complete retooling of the interface.  The configuration of 6.0 was intuitive, easy to configure, and it just worked.  If you needed to find something within the interface, bam! it was right there waiting for you.  It was almost too easy to go in and change things and a curious newcomer could do some serious damage.  Well here is a shocker for you, instead of just tightening up the ship a little bit to save us from our own mistakes, they decide to go and completely revamp IIS 7.0.  Oh and what a wonderful job they did.  The interface is something like a baby throwing shit at a wall.  Icons thrown all over the place so you can't find anything, having to dig 3 and 4 levels deep to find a feature that used to be one click away.  It just stinks on ice.  So golf clap for Microsoft, they went from having a good solid interface you didn't cringe at when you had to use, to paint balling icons all over the fucking place so you don't know what the fuck is up and down.  What techie over 12 wants a million icons on a page?  We just want everything to be laid out neat and clear.  How hard is that?  Just change the view you say?  Sure I can do that but the layout is still impossibly different than 6.0 and still makes me want to put my head through a wall every time I need to make a change.  Fuck You Microsoft, I will use IIS 6 for as long as possible.

Internet Explorer 9 Beta is Hammered Shit as Expected.

Microsoft loves changes.  Unfortunately most of the time these changes are to products that function just fine rather than to the pieces of shit that actually need a revamping.  As for Internet Explorer well, there was definitely a need for a change because i'm sure being known as a virus loving shit show is not the direction they want to continue going in.  To make matter worse, during this time Firefox and Chrome have managed to kick the living shit out of it in every way and are coming back for seconds licking their lips.  So in realizing a change was long overdue they finally have decided to give IE a complete overhaul.  I was hesitantly curious and as soon as the beta was out I had to install it.  Yes i know I'm a glutton for punishment.  Shortly after the install I began to remember what MS did with Vista, Office, SharePoint, and countless other programs and I immediately cringed for what I had just done.  Just as I had suspected, the experience was not good.  I know beta's are supposed to have some bugs but Jesus Christ.  I haven't seen this many crashes since Billy Joel took a liking to a little combo called Whiskey and his Corvette.  The funniest part of it all is opening SharePoint with it seemed to upset it the most.  You can't make this shit up.  So I used Chrome to make any SharePoint edits until I uninstalled the shit show that is IE9 beta.  The bottom line is it's a long long way from making the average internet junkie happy.  In fact it effected my machine so poorly I think next time I get the funny idea to use and IE beta I will just have someone kick me in the nuts drop my PC down a flight of stairs.  It would be less painful for me and my PC would act pretty much the same as it did with IE9beta installed.  Well now that we all know what a cluster fuck piece of shit this software is, I have a few small observations.  First off how did Microsoft get away with completely stealing the design of Google Chrome?  No I don't mean "took some ideas from," or "got creative ideas from" or "was influenced by."  Fuck that.  It was like Google Chrome was jogging in Central Park just after dark, and Microsoft came up behind it, bend it over and raped the shit out of it without even a gratuitous reach-around.  Complete steal.  I know no one gives a shit what I think but bet your bottom dollar many others saw what a piece of trout grundle this software is as well.  It's just disappointing that with all the money MS pays for marketing and software development, they can't come up with their own great idea for a browser after years of the same boring shit?