The Angry Webmaster

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Hello everyone, it's Superbowl Sunday! *yawn*
as you can probably guess, the Angry Webmaster is seriously underwhelmed by the Superbowl. Nope, he has some books he'll be reading instead.

Mrs. Webmaster is still trying to find a job. The Angry Webmaster found a possibility for her at the corner Minimart. He brought home an application but Mrs. Webmaster decided against it claiming that her English is no good. (It's a lot better then one of the Webmaster's coworkers. He's Chinese and been here 18 years)
No, she wants "Simple work" where she doesn't have to talk to people much.

Mrs. Webmaster is also a bit under the weather. It looks like she may have eaten a bad fish or something. The Webmaster heard her stomach growl this morning from two rooms and one floor away when he got up. She's still a little ill but is improving.

The Angry Systems administrator posted something about new plugins and stuff on the blog. He also mentioned the new cell phone he's thinking of ordering for me. This is a bit of a surprise since he just installed a new battery in the Webmaster's present phone. Hmmm.

It's coming up on tax time again. :p The Angry account has bought a copy of Turbo Tim...err...TurboTax and is gathering all the assorted tax documents we need. The Angry Webmaster does have a bit of a capital gain this year. He sold Amazon.com at $125/share. He bought it back one it was running around $15/share. Yeah, Obama and his crooked horde of scum are going to be after his bank account again.

Well, I think that's all for now.

Have fun watching the StuporBowl...ToiletBowl...whatever!

Greetings all.

It's been a very busy week for the Webmaster in his real world job. He has a lot of projects on his plate and more are being added every day. This is making for a busy and cranky Angry Webmaster. (16-18 hour days) This is one of the reasons he hasn't been working on the blog overly much.

The request for help on choosing a new cell phone was a bust. No one seems to have bothered looking at the choices other then the people who work at Anger Central. The Webmaster is growing partial to the Nokia 6260 and would like to hear from anyone who has one. Meanwhile the Webmaster bought a new battery for his Samsung A717. it was only $8 so what the heck, right?

The new UPS arrived for the Anger Central development system and has been hooked up. Now, we have up to 30 minutes of battery time in case of power failure.

Mrs. Webmaster is back from her trip to Washington DC. She likes the city a lot. She said there was so much to see and do. We suspect the Happy Couple will be heading back down there for a vacation visit in the near future.

One of the interesting things on the backend is the Chitika ad system. We're almost at the point of paying for this site's monthly hosting charges. Anger Central highly recommends them. We have found them to be far more reliable then Google's "Do some evil" Adsense system. With a little luck and a lot of help from you, Chitika will drive a stake through the heart of the Evil Google Empire.
(Yes, we still hold a grudge against those slime)

Well, that's it for now. Until next time, Stay Angry

January 24, 2010

Stupid Angry Systems Administrator with delusions of BOFHness! In case you haven't read it, the Angry Webmaster asked him to research a new cell phone for him. Being a pseudo-techno geek posted a request for help on the blog. (The Webmaster will be dealing with him later)

He's got a list of phones there along with a poll of for people to tell him what they recommend. One of the problems is these are unlocked phones and therefore rather pricey. Head on over and vote and please feel free to toss a few bucks into the Tip Jar. We know that our fans are very rich and would like nothing better then to buy the Angry Webmaster a new phone. ;)

Mrs. Webmaster is visiting a friend in NYC. She's still looking for a job but hasn't had much luck. She called the Webmaster this morning and said she and her friend, (Who's in the U.S. visiting her son who works at a bank in NYC), are going down to Washington DC on a tour.

In other news, the UPS for the Angry Webmaster's development system croaked. It was a good 4 years old and was a really cheap model. He's ordered a new APC model and that's going to run a good $130.

Now you may be wondering why the Angry Webmaster ordered this himself rather then have the Angry Systems Admin do it? Simple. His idea of a backup system is a pair of gerbils with a wheel hooked to a generator.

Well, the Webmaster is going to go harass the Angry SysAdmin about when he is going to get his new phone.

Until next time...

Stay Angry!

January 17, 2010

Sorry about no news last week, but the Webmaster was involved in a bit of fan fiction written by a very talented British type person. With a good editor and bit more polishing he had a couple of really good stories. At least the Webmaster was able to push out the updates.

The Webmaster has been incredibly busy in his real world job. Besides his normal duties, he also has to upgrade the telephone system, re-architect the test and production servers and plan the office move in a couple of months. That will involve new internet connections, making sure the new office space is wired correctly and that there is sufficient power for all the servers and computers that will be set up. Yep, The Angry Webmaster is going to be very busy for the next few months and will probably be doing a few weekends as well.

Mrs. Webmaster is looking for a job, but there isn't much out there. She is rather picky, and wants to work as a waitress in a Chinese restaurant. The problem is none are hiring locally.

The Angry Webmaster also wants to replace his cell phone. The Angry Telecom Manager is looking around for an unlocked phone. The Webmaster is prefers flip phones, but since Mrs. Webmaster just got a new phone for herself, he's also looking at sliders. If you have any suggestions let us know. At the moment we're looking at the Samsung D900 and the Samsung U600. If anyone has one of those please tell us what you think.

Well, the Angry Webmaster has to go back to being an intolerant patriotic right wing fanatic. (A couple of dweebs from the moonbat wing of the political spectrum don't like what he has to say about Obama)

Until next time,

Stay Angry!

January 2, 2010

Greetings and salutations from Anger Central.

'Tis a new year and no it is NOT a new decade. That doesn't happen until 2011. We went through this last time in 2000-2001. Don't like our pronouncement? Rant about it then. :)

It's been an interesting year. We had a total of 888 incoming postings last year. 306 were rejected for various reasons. 582 rants went online.

We signed up with Chitika last year and the ads are almost covering the costs to run this site. Book sales through Amazon? Not so good. I guess people don't read anymore. :(

We opened a blog on this site after a few fits and starts, including a few real disasters. From what we can see traffic to that site is low and we don't have many commentators. It's possible the Angry Webmaster's somewhat right of center political leaning may have something to do with that. Ok, he makes Genghis Kan look like a flaming liberal, but hey...this IS a rant site. ;)

The Angry Webmaster also started a Facebook page and a fan page. Unfortunately, Facebook doesn't allow aliases so we were forced to sign up as "John Smith. At the moment we only have 6 fans. Come on people! Sign up and increase our fan base. The Angry Webmaster's ego needs some serious stroking here! ;)

The Angry Webmaster completed his first year as a full time employee of a company since 2005. As you may recall, the Webmaster lost his last full time job in 2006 and ended up doing contract work through 2007. That dried up in 2008 and he wasn't able to find a new job until late November. Mr. & Mrs. Webmaster are still recovering financially from that. They were lucky in that the Webmaster had a lot of savings and was able to avoid going into debt.

Still, expenses this year were higher then normal. This was due to the need to replace two cars. The Webmaster's Jeep finally gave up the ghost and he replaced it with a Toyota Tacoma. Mrs. Webmaster's ancient Ford Taurus was still running, but failed inspection badly. The Webmaster is angry that he's now making car payments again.

So, what's in store for Angry.net this year?

Not to much. We're going to keep playing with the blog trying to find the best theme we can. Since we don't have anyone on staff who really is a dedicated theme designer, we're going to have to do it the hard way and just keep trying things.

On the main site, we don't foresee much in the way of big changes. Mostly it will be on the backend. The RSS feed was copied to a backup folder and the new feed has been emptied out. We were deleting anything older then 30 days, but this year we're going to keep all the postings in the feed. At the end of the year we'll just rotate it out and put it into archive.

Well, that's about it for this week. If anything comes up we'll let you know. Please stop by our blog and let us know what you really think. ;)

Be advised that you do need to register and that will mean we could track you back. Sorry, no anonymity over there.

Until next time...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

And stay Angry!