rants

Because the calendar/event system thinks that seven days after a Tuesday is a Monday, I'm simply scrapping the event system on the site before I get any angrier. I'm already feeling a whole lot of RAAAAGE!!!! right now at it, and I'm seriously considering just trashing Drupal and creating myself a new site from scratch. At least that would work right.

Some sad news out of Australia: Rather than encourage adult gamers to keep up the pressure on South Australia's game and freedom hating Attorney-General, Michael Atkinson, Bethesda Softworks is modifying Fallout 3 for Australia due to the lack of an 18+ rating in that country.

'Nuff said, but you'd probably like to know why I say this in my curmudgeonly fashion. First of all, a disclaimer: Text editors with highlight support do not an IDE make, even if they give you a task pane of files. Second, I'm writing this from a Windows perspective; any PHP IDEs that don't run on Windows are useless to me.

I feel that party whips, while not an unconstitutional part of politics, are a surely immoral part. Unfortunately, they are a major part of modern party politics, as the purpose of the whip is to ensure that members of the party who sit in a parliament vote on issues as directed by the party leadership.

Not everyone works from home. In fact, most people don't. But I'll bet that a lot of those people who don't, wish that they did. Well, I work from home, and if they want to work from home, I'll gladly switch places with them. Your home is possibly the worst place you could ever work.

In other words, should we tell countries like Germany or Australia to "sod off" and rely on the people living in those countries to agitate or illegally import and play computer games, rather than deal with their stupidly authoritarian censorship ratings boards?

Twitter is overloaded, Facebook keeps logging me out for site maintenance, and the Pickering Public Library's wireless internet service isn't working the way it is supposed to. I'll be lucky if this article even shows up.

I didn't even get to wrestle the bear that wandered into my neighbourhood this morning.

Has well-known tech publisher CMP ceased participating in the Canadian magazine market? As someone who has (or had) a subscription to Game Developer Magazine and often bought Dr. Dobb's Journal off the shelf, it's pretty scary how I haven't seen a new issue of either since December.

Even Tycho at Penny Arcade is mentioning it – despite the Canadian dollar being (just barely) worth more than the American, we're still getting gouged with our consumer purchases.

Why is it harder to get an IT related job in Canada than it is in the USA? From what I've gathered, skilled programmers and other IT types can get a decent job even out of high school. Meanwhile, here it's difficult even if one has a college diploma or Bachelor's degree. So someone in my situation is pretty much screwed. But why is this so?