Tag: buddy

Why not fix computers for friends

Posted onAuthorTruXter

We have all asked ourselves Why not fix computers for friends. So we do it, and we learn that people treat you different once you have fixed their computers. It gets even worse if they pay you after you fix their computer. They will either accuse you of taking parts off of their computer, or not doing anything and just handing the computer back to them just as much broken as it was to begin with.
You lose friends this way.
What’s even worse, is when you fix a family member’s computer. They get dependent on you. so dependent on you, they practically want to sit behind you and tell you where to surf, so they can see website stuff without breaking their computer.
Now fixing a computer for a friend of a friend. That’s okay. you can charge that person and not care. unless their friend is super hot. Now you can suggest that you come over and “hook it up” for them.
but I myself refuse to work on a family member’s computer, just like I won’t lend them money or borrow money, or live with them in their place or mine.

You can sit there and blast canned air through the machine, spend three hours trying to get some stupid program to work, because well.. there is no install disk anywhere.

Way to much frustration involved.
This is exactly why I have stopped working on computers for friends.

Got My Google Wave

Posted onAuthorTruXter2 Comments

Here is a screenshot of the first 5 minutes of usage  of Google Wave I have 5 more invites left, looking for actual friends that will use it, that’s the hard part.

for some of you out there, yeah I know, it took me almost two weeks longer than everyone else. yadda yadda.. Well I got it. Most people don’t.

The settings, well there are none, so far it seems I have to use my real name instead of the screen name I have used for the past 12 years. Then again most of the people on there will know me by my real name… right?   well no not really. All of them people know me on hotmail, everyone else has my gmail address. I have learned to use my gmail account for everything because the Google team really does a great job stopping the spam. but ok, back on track.   It looks like you get up to 8 invites into your buddies, so you better hope you have a tight circle of friends, where every friend you have has each other added, or it could be two or three years before that one friend you have, gets around to signing up.

Invite says

Google Wave is more fun when you have others to wave with, so please nominate people you would like to add. Keep in mind that this is a preview so it could be a bit rocky at times.

Invitations will not be sent immediately. We have a lot of stamps to lick.

Happy waving!

Could use a little bit of tweaking like twitter integration, not auto tweet crap like everything, but checks all of your twitter friends and sees who has wave and incorporates them in, without giving unwanted email addresses out, gives them the chance to accept or deny the invites.

Same with your Myspace and Facebook. and what ever social network comes up and fizzles out (like digg).

This actually has the potential of being as big as chatrooms used to be, but a tad bit more elitist and segregated. HMM a public chat addition would be nice but really no one seems to want that in their software anymore.

From the looks of it, it just looks like the place that gmail should go, like an add on or replacement for the google chatbox/im box.

Well when I get the chance to talk to people and see wtf it does,
I will message more on here or start a new thread.

For now it’s just an instant messenger and my buddy list sucks.