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June 28, 2009 Slow week at Anger Central. We've been watching the congress working to destroy the United States with their Cap and Tax crap. If it passes, we hate to say it, but we may no longer be able to afford the bill to pay for this site. The massive tax increases will basically drive us into bankruptcy. Thanks a lot all you 52'ers. You sure got your hope and change now, didn't you? Well, we're going to get ready for the rebellion, but first, find the nearest Tea Party protest and hang your rep in effigy if they voted for all this crap. Until later unless the black helicopters with the Obama Truth Agency Strike Team arrives and takes us away. ;) The Angry Webmaster has been "A' Twittering" this week like crazy. He's also discovered hash tags although he hasn't done much with them...yet! We're also just shy of 100 followers. Come on people! Follow the @angrywebmaster!! You know you want to. ;) Today is father's day, so please tell your dad what a great guy he is. In more serious news, twitter has been the primary source of news coming out of Iran. It looks like another revolution is about to start. We remember the last one and how that turned out The bad news is they have their martyr now. A young woman shot and killed. Here is the video Be advised this is NOT for the faint of heart or the weak of stomach. This is a woman, probably under 25 who was shot in the chest and died on camera. She was hit just above the breastbone. It looks like she went into shock almost instantly and never really knew what hit her. So what did our President do in response? He went out for ice cream. Will this be the "Let them eat cake!" moment for the Obama administration? Considering that Obama is surpassing Jimmy Carter for presidential incompetence, we can only hope so. However, we will pass on having him guillotined. Impeachment and removal from office will suffice, especially after the treatment of several Inspectors general who had the nerve to go after crooked "Friends of Obama." Until next time, Stay Angry! All's quiet on the Anger Central front. Not to many new postings this week, although the Webmaster has been blasting stuff out via twitter. The Webmaster's real world job is getting very busy now and that can be a good thing. Of course there's the usual stupidity from our masters in Washington, but the Webmaster is thinking about doing a formal posting on that one....Once the Med's wear off of course. ;) It is rather cool out at the moment. We'll tell you that this Global Warming is getting worse by the day. At the rate we're going, if we don't do something, we'll be in serious danger of blizzards in July! Until next time... Stay Angry! Today is the 65th anniversary of the D-day landings in Normandy, France. Please take a moment and remember all those who died liberating France from the Nazi's. In other news... Chitika sent out a notice that they were discontinuing banner ads do to...something. We have a few on the site and have contacted Chitika asking if they have a way of sending us a list of URL's. Otherwise, we have to do it the hard way. If you see an ad that is blank or looks odd, please drop us a line with the url of the page. Meanwhile, we received a rant from previous poster. It seems he took exception to a "Note from Anger Central" where we suggested the poster move to a country that better reflected his views. Click here to see how we feel about the posters reply to us. In the real world, the Webmaster has been meeting with assorted vendors regarding storage arrays for his real world job. We're leaning towards a specific vendor who we will name later. During our research, we came across a company called Drobo. We won't recommend their products for a production environment, we are interested for both the office and the Anger Central Development Network. If someone would like to loan us one for an evaluation period of not less then 500 years, please feel free to contact us. ;) Until next time, Stay Angry! Greetings Angry People. It's been a fairly quiet week with regards to posting. This is probably due to the long weekend. You should be seeing a few minor changes on the layout. We've dropped Feedage and gone with AddThis. This seems to help with the page loading. Instead of a long list of icons, now you have one small one. We're also adding this to the RSS feed too. In the real world, the Webmaster has been pricing out storage arrays for his real world job. His boss is not going to like the $56K for the one he is going to recommend. The Webmaster has a few other places to look first. We can't wait to see what EMC is going to charge. We also thought of Sun, but these days? In any case, it's been slow and the Webmaster is not feeling all that productive this week. So, until next week... Stay Angry!! Been busy the last few weeks which is why we haven't posted any news. Now it's a long weekend and we can take a bit of a breather here at Anger Central. The new hard drive in the dev system is working to spec. The old hard drive is now holding down papers on the admin's desk. ;) You may have noticed that we're posting a lot of stuff via the Angry Webmaster's Twitter feed. He found a new URL shortener that also lets him track who clicks on the links, so he's playing with that now. It also lets him indulge in his rampant right wing radicalism. (According to the Department of Homeland Security, this is defined as anyone who disagrees with Obama) It also lets him post news stories that he finds amusing, like the brave soldier who goes after the the Taliban wearing a red T-shirt, flip flops and pink "I Love New York" boxer shorts. That poor guy, he's never going to live that one down, and we have no doubt a new legend has been born. :D Anger Central wishes him well and prays for the safe and successful return to the United States of him and his unit. (Not to mention the same for ALL U.S. military forces) Speaking of which, this is Memorial Day weekend in the United States. This is the time we remember all those who died to protect our nation, our Constitution and our freedom. Please take a moment to reflect on their sacrifice. In the Webmasters real world job, things are growing by leaps and bounds. The Webmaster is going to have to explain to the Boss that the company is going to have to buy some new equipment to keep up with the growth. Nice, shiny new "Expensive" equipment too. ;) We have been doing a lot of reading lately and the Webmaster is posting his suggestions. Some of the books listed haven't been published yet, but why wait? Avoid the rush. :)
Until Next time, keep those rants and rages coming!! *grumble* Sorry for all the delays with updates. The primary development system blew a hard drive a week ago and had to be replaced. Now there wasn't any critical data on this drive, and it was actually a third drive mounted in the system. The Webmaster lost all his virtual machines though as well as a large Truecrypt volume. We're still working on recovery of course and have managed to get a large number of file back. We want to highly recommend SpinRite by Steve Gibson of the Gibson Research Corporation It's been able to restore the drive enough to get most of what we lost off it. Now, when the Angry Systems replaced the drive last Friday, the power supply blew on the system. We weren't able to replace that until Saturday and the system wasn't back up and running until Sunday. We were able to use Twitter to post updates on what was happening. One of the problem of course was our backups. We back up from one drive to the other on the assumption that if a drive fails we will have a backup readily available. We didn't take into account a failed system. Changes to the backup strategy have been implemented. :) The Webmaster took a day off Yesterday. Some day off. The Webmaster got several calls at home and emails from coworkers asking for this, that or the next thing. The Webmaster will be making it known that when he has a day off, he does not expect to be called for minor issues. Until next time, Stay Angry! *bleah* This has been the most expensive month for Anger Central in a long time. We had several surprise expenses.
So, cash flow is a little tight right now. At least the Webmaster has a job with an income. As mentioned above. Mrs. Webmaster is the proud owner of a brand new 2009 Honda Civic. Mrs. Webmaster is one tough negotiator. She argued over $50 on her old car for 2 hours! She wore them down of course. ;) Mrs. Webmaster loves her new car. She does miss her old car, but considering the dealer bought it and promptly marked it as salvage, the Webmaster doesn't miss it at all. Much to do around the Datacenter, so until next time... Stay Angry! What a week! First, Mr. & Mrs. Webmaster looked at a car Monday. It wasn't quite up to what the ad said it was. Mrs. Webmaster rejected it. She has decided she would like a new car. The Angry accountant has collapsed in a dead faint. To top it off, the medical bill we spoke about 2 weeks ago had a few minor issues. The Credit card company put a hold on the charge thinking it was a fake. Not really complaining about that, but once we released the hold it should have gone through. Nope! We had to call the hospital billing department and tell them to resubmit. That only took them 2 more weeks! Oh yes, the hospital in question has a bad habit of not sending out bills in a timely manner. Because of this, we have had to pay close to $5000 in the last year. Our total bill should not have been more then $2500. Why did this occur? The hospital delays sending out bills so people with private insurance can get slammed. Basically it's fraud. They are using people like the Angry Webmaster is money trees for those with no insurance. Excuse me, but that isn't our problem. If this happens again we will be talking to a lawyer and looking to have the hospital's tax exempt status revoked. In the Webmaster's real world job, he has had a barrel of fun...NOT! A critical server failed and the backups were rocky. (Basically there were none until the webmaster was able to get a kludged system going) The Webmaster was able to recover all the data. However, while he is working on this, one of his more destructive coworkers managed to corrupt his development system. He was only concerned with that. The Webmaster was rather annoyed and told him to go sit in a corner. Now for some back office stuff. We recently heard that it is against Korean law, (ROK), to post things to the internet anonymously. Well, to any of our Korean fans, we don't recognize that law. Feel free to drop by our ADD page and post about things that make you angry, like stupid laws that won't let you post without signing your name. Just remember to sign the name of whatever politician annoys you the most. ;) Until next week, stay angry! The Angry Mechanic may have found a new car for Mrs. Webmaster. It doesn't quite meet her parameters though. She wants a free car. ;) We will post details on this car later. We don't want to jinx the deal. We will say the Angry mechanic found the car on Craig's list and it looks like a very good deal. The happy couple will be heading out to see the car Tuesday with the Angry Brother In-law. We will then determine if the car is suitable for Mrs. Webmaster. If so, we will purchase it. Speaking of automotive transportation, the Angrymobile is still in the body&fender shop. It should be ready either Monday or Tuesday. The shop we use is very expensive, but also one of the best in the region. Pity they don't put anywhere near the effort into maintaining their web site. The Webmaster's real world job is getting busier and busier. Without going into the nature of the company and it's business, suffice to say we have to use some third parties to handle certain things. We are in process of making said third parties go away. Well, recently said third parties seem to be dropping the ball, forcing Our Hero to go into their system and manually setting things right. This is a very time consuming process and hopefully this will go away once the project the Webmaster is working on is completed, this third party agency will be out of the loop. On the posting scene, it's been an exceptionally busy week. We haven't counted, but it looks like 15+ new postings will be going up this weekend. As usual they cross the gamut of rage, anger and fury. Please send in more. And while you are at it, pop off to Amazon and buy some stuff or visit some of our Chitika sponsors and spend some money there. Every dime we get helps defray the cost of this site and purchase new cars for the happy couple. ;) Until next week, Stay Angry! (And Navy guys? Please sink some pirates at your convenience? Thank you!) *grumble* More money the Webmaster has to spend. Mrs. Webmaster's car, the Reject from Rent-A-Wreck. failed inspection last week. Failed badly. The car is not worth repairing so we have to buy her a new car. While we expected this car to die, we didn't expect having to replace the original Angrymobile a few months ago. Our funds are rather depleted at the moment. Additionally, the Webmaster got a bill from the local hospital. This bill is for $2500. Funny thing. The webmaster hasn't been to the hospital in a while. Not since last fall in fact. That trip cost $2500. The Angry Accountant paid that bill as soon as it arrived. It looks like the local hospital is trying to double bill Anger Central. Needless to say we won't be paying this bill and we will be calling the billing department and letting fly at them. Well, the Angry Webmaster has to go car shopping. Please send money to us. :) Busy busy busy! The Webmaster has been working like a slave in his real world job. One of the issues is that his manager grabbed a number of systems from the scrap pile from the main office and instructed our hero to get them up and running. Have we mentioned that the Webmaster really doesn't like Dell systems much? The systems in question required a special driver and that needs to be loaded during the installation. Windows requires this driver to be loaded via a floppy drive. (Wait for it! Don't jump to the correct conclusions!) Yep, the systems were ordered with no floppy drives. The Angry Systems Administrator happened to have an old server sitting in storage that is no longer functional. He stripped the floppy drive out of that and the Webmaster was able to build out the systems. Of course, as soon as he finished, the damn pile of junk started looping when it booted. *snarl* Looked to be a bad sector on the drive. Our Hero then broke out his trusty Spinrite CD and ran that. Problem fixed although it did require the system to be reloaded. (All it had at that point was the OS. It wasn't even on the network yet) In other news, this was the weekend that the Angrymobile was to go in for repairs to the body. The shop the Angry mechanic was going to use called and asked for a one week delay. They are so busy that they just don't have anyone available to make the repairs. Since the Webmaster will require a rental vehicle, the shop asked that the work be postponed one week. Since the Webmaster will need to pay for this rental, we consider this to be a good thing. We have gotten a few postings this week that were rejected. Again, tell us why you are angry, not that you hate something/someone. Until next time, stay angry!! The Angry Webmaster was ill this week. He was suffering from a cold. It knocked him down for about a day and he stayed home from work. Of course he was also taking a day off Monday, so being sick wasn't fun. The Angrymobile goes in for surgery at the end of the month. The recovery period is estimated at 1 week. Not much else to say, so stay angry! *SNARL* Last week as the Angry Chauffeur was backing the new Angrymobile into the Anger Central driveway, the Webmaster's brand new truck was physically assaulted by an agent of the city government masquerading as a fire hydrant. This thuggish government agent grabbed our hero's truck and inflicted grievous bodily injury upon her. She was able to break free from her attacker and the Angry Mechanic took her to the plastic surgeon for consultations. The injuries are deep and could leave lasting scars if not properly cared for. Fortunately Anger Central's medical insurance for this sort of thing is fully paid up. Since the medical bills are estimated at $2500, this is a good thing. Please keep or hero's poor innocent truck, a victim of a brutal government assault, in your thoughts. It's been a quiet week. The Webmaster was amused yesterday when his real world boss, (The one who pays him, not his actual boss, Mrs. Webmaster), did a happy dance when the Webmaster discovered an interesting thing. The Bossman was a bit annoyed that an item called a SCADA had not been procured by the Webmaster. It turns out that this was assigned to someone else in the office who's name is very close to that of the Webmaster. No worries, the Webmaster took the ball and ran with it. After about 10 minutes discussion, it was determined that we didn't actually need the device, (The Company thought it would have to do some serious development work with this thing) since everything we needed to do was already done. All we need to do is make a few small changes and *poof* DONE! When the Bossman realized that we didn't have to do all this work, he started doing a happy dance and singing "We don't have to spend X thousands of dollars and 3 months work! Now instead of being late we are going to be ahead of schedule!!" The Webmaster, ever the mercenary, replied: "Great! Bonuses for everyone!!" :D In the Anger Central back office, not much is happening. We got an announcement that our old Feedburner feeds had been moved over to Google. We promptly deleted them. We're using Feedage until we can find something better. Google can go <CENSORED> it's self as far as Anger Central is concerned. Anyway, The Webmaster is On call this weekend so until next time... Stay Angry! Hmm, rather slow here on Anger Central. Only a half dozen postings came in this week. Must be all the people on vacation. Yes we're still trying to find a search script we can tie into the site. No, we aren't going to use Google. You might have noticed a new Icon on the left along with a
list of web based RSS aggregators. Anger Central dumped
feedburner last week. We joined a new system, Feedage.com. They
are not associated with our hated enemy, Google. Click on the
gold shield
As noted below, the Webmaster set up Bugtracker.Net for his real world work place. We liked it so much we set up a version for Anger Central. If you find a broken link or other issue send an email to support and we'll look at it. The Webmaster was very busy again at his real world job. He was also ready to fold, spindle and mutilate one of the developers. Said developer put together a new web application for the company's web site. It uses .aspx pages. Well it works fine on the development network of virtual machines the Webmaster set up for the developers, but when he moved it to a live test system, it threw error application errors all over the place. After about an hour of investigation, the Webmaster came to the conclusion that it was a security issue. (The test and production systems are locked down TIGHT!) Mr. Developer didn't care. In his opinion the Webmaster had to make it run. Two days later the Webmaster finds the key in the security policies that is causing the application to fail. His job is done. He passes the results on to the developer. His response? "Can't you turn that off?" Must resist folding, spindling and mutilating! What part of "Hell NO!" did you not understand? This was at the end of the day, so it will be revisited next week. Until next time... Stay ANGRY!! Well it was a busy week, both with Anger Central both on the site and in the Webmaster's real world life. We've gotten quite a few postings this week and believe it or not, most of them were accepted. We've also been working on the back end with the new hosting company. One of the things we've been rebuilding our spam filters. Our old hosting service used a program called Boxtrapper. this was a system that used white lists and sent an auto reply requesting verification. We've managed to kill most of the spam coming in. In our real world job, yet another hat has been placed on our hero's head. Now he is the Voice over engineer. He has been requested by the main office to record a message for the office PBX. Since that's one of the hats the Webmaster wears, he gets to make a new message. "Press 1 for more options" Of course, the Webmaster's inner BOFH is making an appearance. muahaha! This week was also the 4th anniversary of the happy couples Official Wedding. Mrs. Webmaster had to work though so the couple couldn't do much. :( Well, the Webmaster has lots of work to do, so until next week, here's some stuff you can buy:
We hope you all had a good Valentines day yesterday. It was the 6th anniversary of the Webmaster and Mrs. Webmaster's first meeting in China. :) Anger Central has been fully moved over to the new hosting company. Our previous hosting service was unhappy to see us go, but it was time to move on. Aside from some of the technical issues, they couldn't match the price or services we have at the new company. There are a few technical issues we are working on of course. The search feature doesn't work now. The original script belonged to the old hosting service and we haven't had time to dig around for a replacement. The original program was called Entropysearch.cgi and appears to have been built into the Cpanel frontend used by our old host. The new host also uses Cpanel, however they don't have the script. We're looking for a copy or for a replacement. In other news, the Webmaster has a new hat to wear at his Real World Job. Now he is a Build/Release Engineer. He spent a week working with a contractor who departed for other opportunities last week. (His choice) This is on top of the other hats our Hero wears. To date they are:
We understand that more hats may soon be descending on our Hero's Cranium. Well, at least the Webmaster has President's Day off. He also has a vacation day he needs to burn as well. (We hate use it or lose it!) It looks like we will be junking Feedburner in fairly short order. (Like today perhaps) The fact that they are moving over to Google and stripping some features out isn't making us happy. We've been looking around and we think we'll be going with Feedage. We assume that Google will rapaciously devour them as well in the next year or so. (And we thought Microsoft was evil) In any case, while feedburner will still be active, we won't be doing a lot with it in the future. If you are following our RSS feeds via Feedburner, (It has a really oddball URL), you can continue to do so. We recommend switching over to one of the new links on the left. Meanwhile, we'll look at getting the search function working again and we'll continue playing with the feedage system. Until next time... Stay Angry!! As we mentioned last month, the hosting service that handled Anger Central was going to upgrade the server. Well, it went horribly horribly wrong for our site. Sections were no longer accessible to our loyal fans and we couldn't get into it to update it. The Angry Systems administrator was in communications with the hosting company regarding the problems. It was finally decided that the site needed to be nuked from orbit. It was the only way to be sure. So on instructions of the Angry Webmaster, after consultations with the Angry Systems Administrator the live site was deleted and a new blank site created. We then republished Angry.net from our dev site. Unfortunately, the problems continued and we couldn't find a way to fix them. :( As of February 8, 2009 the site has been transferred over to the new hosting company. As soon as things have fully matriculated we will be cancelling our accounts with the old service. We regret the need, but it has proven necessary. The old service did yeoman's work, but in the end, they were unable to correct the problems. The new service is also cheaper, faster, allows more data transfer and we can add other domains. If you see any problems please let us know asap. As to the normal updates, we'll get to them eventually. Boy has the Webmaster been busy at his real world job. He was tasked to find a bug tracker for use by the applications group, (Which he is a part of), and found one that he liked. Actually he found a number of them, but this one seems to serve the needs of the company best, and it's free. :) The Angry Webmaster's manager has a thing about open source. He don't like it to much. On the other hand, this also saves the company some big bucks. (One app was $3000US plus maintenance fees) His choice was approved Friday and he set it up on one of the servers he manages. The program is called BugTracker.NET and is a highly customizable application. The Webmaster has already started using it as a helpdesk app as well as a bug tracker. He still has some work to do on it, mostly involving the email component. The Webmaster has a copy running in the Anger Central Data Center as well and is considering making it public...perhaps. ;) Speaking of work, the Webmaster is going to get a lot busier. As mentioned last week, he was told he was going to support an application 27/7. The turnover didn't happen due to other things, but it is expected to occur next week. Now, has anyone been paying any attention to the disaster that's about to happen in Washington? We mean the "stimulus" bill the Democrats and the Obama misadministration are trying to ram through. This abortion is just what is needed to completely wreck the economy. Everything they are talking about was tried in the 30's under another disaster of a president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It failed then and it will fail even worse this time. Another interesting thing is how many of the new Obama Cabinet seem to have a problem with paying their taxes. Gee, do you think that if us "Common people" tried some of the excuses these crooks are using it would work? Hell no! It would be an all expense paid trip to Club Fed for a few years of beatings and dodging fellow inmates amorous advances. Not for these scumbags. They get jobs figuring out how best to screw up our lives. Well enough of this. It's back to Bug tracking for Angry Webmaster. Until next time.. Stay Angry! Some minor sadness. The new Angrymobile has a very minor dent in the rear bumper. (Damn chrome! The old Angrymobile had solid plastic covers to absorb these kind of bumps) So what happened you ask? There is a fire hydrant at the end of the driveway of the Anger Central Primary Dwelling. The Webmaster prefers to back into the driveway for a quick getaway in case new rants come in. The Webmaster has bumped this hydrant with every single vehicle he has driven. Never very hard, just a tap so light it wouldn't leave a bruise if you had walked into the thing. The dent is barely noticeable and the Webmaster only noticed it when he washed the Angrymobile and saw a bit of yellow paint from the hydrant. The dent didn't even crease the chrome and can easily be pushed out. It's just annoying. Since the Webmaster doesn't have the contacts of Waffles Kerry, (Senator from Massachusetts and all around spoiled brat), we can't ring up the mayor and tell her to move the damn thing. *sigh* In other news... The Webmaster goes on 24/7 call Monday with his new Real World job. He was told to activate his text pager on his personal cell phone in anticipation of 20-50 messages a day! His company will pay for the text service since the Webmaster doesn't use it normally. So why is the Webmaster going on call now? He will be supporting a new application that earns his company $1.5 million/month, that's why. This system absolutely can't go offline for more then a few minutes. The Webmaster has been doing some reading and assisted the developer/admin in moving it from the old systems to the new servers the company has set up for this. The Webmaster is rather nervous since he isn't very familiar with how this things works in detail. Of course, our Hero will figure it out as he always does. Now for some site news... The upgrades we mentioned previously were put on hold. The new hardware failed inspection and replacement parts had to be delivered and qualified. The new upgrade schedule is this week. You should not see any issues at all. For those of you who subscribe to our RSS feed, Anger Central just learned that Feedburner is moving everything in Google now and discontinuing it's standalone system. Rather then using a separate login/password, we will be forced to use Google's system. Those of you who have followed our travails with regards to Google will know how we truly feel about that company. (Hint: If we had the capability, we would call in an Arc light raid on their HQ) In the coming weeks we may decide to cancel Feedburner and either run the feeds from our system or try and locate a different service. One of the reasons we signed up for Feedburner was the ability to do ads in the feeds. Well, since Google cancelled our adsense account due to their greed and incompetence, we might as well toss this service into the dumpster as well. Another Google service we like is called Grand Central. Another small company taken over by the evil empire, and in this case, they may close it down. They certainly haven't done much with it and we can see a lot of potential with them. In any case, if/when we junk Feedburner you will need to change your rss feeds to point to the new system. Until next time... Stay angry! (And with President Jug ears and his spend happy drones, that's going to be very easy to do for a long time) Happy Birthday to the Angry Webmaster!! Tomorrow is the Webmaster's birthday. He will be <Censored> years old. Click on our donate button and send the Angry Webmaster a big fat cash gift. ;) In the Webmaster's real world job, he's about to be handed a major new thing he will have to support. It looks like he will be going to a 24/7 schedule now. Well if it gets to much, he's going to complain loudly. He has also been tasked to find a dedicated bug tracking application. He has found a couple of commercial ones and an open source one that he's favoring. Due to the situation, the applications have to be based on the Windows platform which takes Bugzilla out of the picture. He's looking at something called BugTracker.Net which seems to fit the bill. The only issue is that it is a bear to get up and running. It does seem solid once it's set up and configured, and the price is right...Free! If any of our fans have experience with this application head over to our contact page and send the Webmaster a note. He can use all the help he can get. ;) The Webmaster has a very minor issue with the new Angrymobile. It doesn't have any way to mount a license plate on the front bumper. It seems that Toyota decided not to bother with that little design feature, never mind that in some states it is required that you have a front plate. The Webmaster is searching for an after market solution that doesn't require drilling holes in his front bumper. Any thoughts, let us know. FYI This is a 2009 Tacoma This week marks the historic inaugural of President-Elect Jug Ears to the office of President of the United States. Never has anyone so unqualified been elected to the highest office of the most powerful nation on Earth. To put it bluntly, we're so screwed! Until next time, stay Angry! This week was much to busy for the Webmaster. He has been working from home over the weekend setting up computers for other people. He's also been working on new projects and other stuff. Well, it beats unemployment. :) The new Angrymobile is performing well. We had one issue that required dealer intervention. A warning light came on and didn't go out. Turns out they didn't fully initialize the warning systems and sensors when they prepped the vehicle for delivery to Our Hero. It was a 5 minute fix. Another issues is the front license plate. There's no place to mount one. It looks like we'll be heading to the dealer again and having holes bored in the front bumper, unless we can find some sort of after market bracket that clips on in some way. Registration was fun. $500+ fun that is!! :O The Webmaster had forgotten how much the state steals...err requests that you pay for the privilege of driving on the roads. At least the insurance change wasn't bad. About $14/month more then he was paying for his old Jeep and Mrs. Webmaster's "Reject from Rent-a-wreck." Speaking of Mrs. Webmaster, Her 10 year green card with no conditions has arrived!! :) Mrs. Webmaster is now stuck with the Angry Webmaster. ;) Mrs. Webmaster also got a new Cellphone. The Angry Telecom manager isn't fully up on this, but it looks like Mrs. Webmaster went with T-mobile. As long as she's happy, that's all that matters. Global Warming struck with a vengeance last night to the tune of about 12" of snow. Will someone please put Algore out of our misery? The server upgrade was postponed until later this month. We'll keep you informed as needed. Well, until later, keep those cards, letters and rants coming! And don't forget to fill the tip jar too. ;) Happy New year
from Anger Central! Yesterday, January 3rd, the Webmaster bought a new Angrymobile. He wasn't planning on it, at least not for another 6 months or so, but the old Angrymobile developed a death rattle over the holidays. At first the Webmaster thought it might have been a bearing going bad on one of the wheels. However this sound different and also was coming from more towards the center then near one of the wheels. We suspected it was either the transmission or one of the differentials going bad. The final straw was the Webmaster driving home from his real world job and listening to a very loud coffee grinder beneath his seat. He made the decision that it was time to get a replacement. The original Angrymobile was a 1999 Jeep Cherokee Sport 4x4. It had over 116000 miles on the odometer. It was paid off years ago and really wasn't worth anything at this point. (We got $1000 for it on trade) Of course, the Webmaster was thinking about the "Big Three" automakers when he was considering his next vehicle. So of course he did the right thing. ;) The new Angrymobile is a 2009 Toyota Tacoma 4x4 access cab model. It rides very nicely and is a lot quieter then the old Jeep. Also, since the Webmaster is now a homeowner he has found that he needs a small truck to handle assorted things, like taking away trash and yard detritus. Well we hope the Webmaster likes it since he'll be paying for it for the next 82 months or so. (We understand that he plans to have it paid off in 36 months or less) The Webmaster lives about 1 mile from the dealership, but when he went there to make a deal, he took Mrs. Webmaster's Reject from Rent-a-Wreck. He wasn't sure if his jeep would make it there. In fact, when he signed the deal and went back to the Anger Central offices to get the title and Jeep, he wasn't sure the Jeep would hold together for the one mile drive to the dealer. It barely made it and the Webmaster basically abandoned it in their parking lot. ;) If you would like to help out, please feel free to add to out tip jar or click on the links for Amazon.com or our other advertisers. We really could use the money In other news, Mrs. Webmaster received notice that her petition for the removal of conditions has been approved and she will be getting her new 10 year green card in the next 60 days. The happy couple are thrilled with this, especially since they didn't have to go in for an interview to prove they were married. In fact, the happy couple never did have to submit to any interviews other then Mrs. Webmasters original interview for her visa in China years ago. The next step for her is citizenship if she wants it. Right now she isn't interested and that is understandable. The green card allows her to travel all over the world and in the case of going to and from China, she won't need a visa. In the small world category, Mrs. Webmaster's English teacher in China has met an American and is working on her visa to the United States. We hope everything works out for "The Happy Lady" and her fiancé and the Webmaster has offered to help the happy couple as much as he can with her paperwork. From what Mrs. Webmaster has said, it appears that the Happy Man will go to China and marry The Happy Lady and then go for a K-3 visa. They probably decided to go this route after the issues with Mrs. Webmaster's sister and her visa difficulties. (K-1 fiancée rejected so they got married in China and went for a K-3. They are now in Tennessee) The Webmaster's new Real World job is coming along nicely. He's getting his feet under him and the company is positioned for major growth this year. He has 2 new co-workers, one is from India and the other is from China. The manager came in on his day off to greet them and also informed us that he was thinking about hiring one more person. Considering the economic conditions, this is a good thing. Mr. Wong, (Not his real name), is a US Citizen, but his English is very heavily accented. In fact it's a lot worse then Mrs. Webmasters. ;) still, he is a nice guy and he's also going through a steep learning curve. The only problem is he managed to corrupt his PC and the Webmaster has brought it home for a rebuild. (Much easier since he isn't getting bothered by other issues) Oh yes, the Webmaster's title is "Applications Administrator." Basically he is the only internal Systems administrator for the company. The rest belong to an out-source IT organization. Well there you have it. It's a new year with new opportunities. We have a new president coming in who happens to be of African decent. Pity he's a lying commie. A marvelous and historic event that will be ruined because the individual is a moron. :/ At least the clowns in Washington will provide us with many angry people looking for a place to vent their rage. Until next time, Stay Angry!! The Angry Webmaster
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