Windows and me
As it turns out, I share a birthday with the Windows OS. Windows is exactly one year older than me. I’ll drink to that.
Nifty.
November 20, 2008
April 22, 2008
I hate ads, but I can’t be bothered to block them
My problem with internet advertising is that during my entire decade or so of browsing, I haven’t once seen an ad for anything that I’ve ever been even remotely interested in. I don’t see it happening any time in the future either, unless ad targeting systems somehow learn to scan my mind for my deepest desires. A lot of this is because I live in a small, obscure, European country (the local websites of which I do not browse), which makes my relevant ad domain a lot smaller.
But the main issue is that ads are the internet equivalent of cold calls. And cold calls are deplorable because they assume that I’m somehow incapable of finding what I want on my own. If I want a product to perform some specific task, then I will search for it. I don’t want to be constantly reminded that there’s an application that can insert gay ass smilies into my emails. I’m not interested, I don’t need your products, and I don’t want to hear about them, because I am not going to buy them, period. When and if I, for some reason, start needing a gay smilie application, then I’ll Google it. I will then commit seppuku to retain my honor.