unfriendly technology

have you ever come across those funny coded pictures which supposedly show some random alphabets that pop out to make you prove you’re older than 7 years old or something? the hidden answer is usually something like DHG4CV or KFHB8G. verifying that you’re of adequate intellect, eh? it struck me as a pretty cool concept when i first saw it. and then it got pretty irritating when i started to see it everywhere. worse still, some of those images are made up of such an outlandish combination of colours that i’d much rather close the browser than to bother straining my eyes for the sake of reading senseless rubbish. i seriously doubt its success at keeping toddlers away from their ulterior aims of global domination through creating so many email accounts that the internet jams up and… and dies. actually, it’s been relatively effective at keeping me off sites which contain those hideous stuff. what the heck, i’m friggin’ 18 and i get those codes wrong more often than i get them right.

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my internet is sucks. i can almost see the snails drifting through the air as they carry bytes via the wireless connection.

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eh, i’m stuck in NFS: Carbon. something went wrong in my HK$20 DVD i think. that corrupt part causes my car to fall into an abyss when i’m clearly on the highway. following that a pop-up created by one of Bill Gates’ henchmen will offer to send my problems to the microsoft office which will then do nothing about them. maybe they’d even call the cops. therefore, i’m stuck at 64% mark of career completion.

later,

jeff