With a 60 page long title?  The answer, of course, is probably zero… and, if you know what’s good for you, you’ll go nowhere near the latest addition to my “F—ing Weird” category, Marienbad My Love.  It’s only the longest English language novel in existence.  Oh, and it’s over 3000 pages long.  Yes, it’s a free download.  No, I don’t recommend it.  It’s apparently about a religious man who wants to remake a science fiction movie to create a new religion, but somehow involves some woman that doesn’t remember him… it only gets less coherent from there.

With that, I am done.

Well, I think I can safely say that, if anything could go wrong with this migration, it pretty much did…

1. A normal, sane person would probably import all posts into the new blog before doing something as daring as, I don’t know, migrating DNS to a new blog. Not me, though. I decided to change the DNS settings first, then wait half a day for them to propagate. That made importing the rest of the blog a little too interesting for my taste. Naturally, since the domains had changed, the blog couldn’t tell what posts were duplicates, what weren’t, and would arbitrarily choose to avoid importing half of them. This eventually led to me deleting all of the posts and reimporting. Good times!

2. A normal, sane person would probably import all of the posts and make sure they didn’t break the blog. Not me, though… which, of course, led to one of the posts here breaking the blog for half the day. Nice!

Yeah. This is what happens when I try to do stuff like this on almost no sleep. Not a good idea.

I’ll post more later, I assure you.

I’m writing this from Las Vegas - just attended Interop. Some things on tap:

1. Pictures! There weren’t a whole lot of booth cookies, but I got pictures of most of them.
2. I haven’t forgotten to migrate the site; as I alluded to earlier, work has been slamming me rather hard as of late. I’m hoping to perform the migration sometime either tonight or tomorrow. Either way, the migration will happen very soon, at which point this blog will be the Second Greatest Place On Earth™.

Stay tuned…

see more crazy cat pics

What’s funny is that it’s really not a mouse. It looks like a hamster or something… not that I’m up on my rodents or anything.

UPDATE: I just made the mistake of trying to read the comments. Sweet Zombie Jesus, I think a large part of mah brainz jest DYIIID! SD:KJLW:ERKJ@#:%:LIJ^J!@#$!!!!

I’m going to be visiting my son this weekend, and I’m leaving immediately after work today. Consequently, posts may be a little sparse until Monday. Rest assured, though, come Monday, I will be back with the fury of a thousand suns.. or perhaps a thousand sons. Either way, it will be furious.

Let’s start with the article that started it all: Sony VAIO Customer Service, courtesy of Instapundit. It’s a classic horror story of dealing with a product support line for a large company; in this case, Sony seems to be feeling a little more belligerent than most.

From where I’m sitting, though, Sony’s behavior isn’t terribly surprising. Let’s take a look at the moves that Sony has made over the years:

- Creating MiniDisc, a wonderful idea at the time that, if it worked the way people wanted it to, would’ve made the iPod unnecessary. I have many a “fond” memory of dealing with Sony’s SonicStage software and its byzantine anti-copy mechanisms. I also have many a “fond” memory of looking at MiniDisc support on a Mac and realizing that, yes, Sony hates Apple. Great.
- Okay, so here’s the plan… right when everyone is all paranoid about spyware, we’re going to embed a piece of software on our CDs that, when you put the CD into your computer, will install itself and create a huge, gaping security hole in your machine, all so we can make sure you’re not copying our stuff. Good plan. Then, when everyone freaks out and says that we shouldn’t be doing this, we’re going to make an uninstaller that makes the problem worse and require people to get unsolicited junk e-mail in order to download it. Brilliant!
- Hmm… we sell a portable gaming console to a highly technical audience. How do we get more of those people to buy our product? I know - we’ll insult their intelligence! Yes!

And the list goes on.

Honestly, what amazes me more than anything at this point is that Sony is still in existence.