The annoying, uninformative error message.

This message can’t be saved to the Outbox.
The message contains one or more attachments that are too large to be saved in the Outbox. Try deleting some attachments.

Have you ever got this error message before? I use Mail.app IMAP’ing from my GAFYD (Google Apps for Your Domain) account and thought I was going insane when I was getting this error message the other day.

I went in and emptied trash, cleared out a bunch of emails – basically got back to 50% free space, which was moooore than enough for the 5mb attachment I was sending. I also checked my local hard-drive to ensure I had plenty of free space, and I did.

It turns out this error message actually means that the attachment that you are trying to send on hasn’t finished downloading yet. 

A more descriptive error message would be nice!

If I had to sum up the movie for someone going to see it it’d be like this:

“Dude… y’know what’d be cool… if people could shoot bullets and bend them…”
“Yeah, that’d be awesome, let’s make a movie about it!”
“Yeah sweet. We better make sure Angelina Jolie is in it.”

I’m not going to spoil the ending or story line twists or anything, but I will list my favourite and least favourite parts.

FavBits:

• Angelina Jolie getting out of the bath
• Angelina Jolie pashing the guy in slow motion for about 45 seconds
• The main guy smashing the keyboard across his mates face.

Least fav:

• When they flip the cop cars (cool) and land on the bus (still cool) then they magically do a mono/wheelie off the bus and land smoothly on their rear wheels (stupid – made me question my sexuality).
• The bit where the train snapped off and they were in the carriage that crashed ~50m down into a cliff, and survived easily
• The last line of the movie “What have YOU done today?”… Well I sat next to a really fat guy on the train home, and I ate schnitzel, then I went to watch a movie that was almost great, but in the end, just ok…

Overall I didn’t mind it, but it wasn’t nearly as cool as I thought it would be.

I hate when an umpire 1. doesn’t know they rules of the game they are umpiring, and 2. deliberatly makes decisions in favour of the team they support (cheats).

There has only been one other centre we have played at that has had an umpire that cheats until now, and she did it both times we played there, blatantly. This frustrated us, but we know to expect it now.

After tonight, I would prefer to play there every week than ever play at North Gong with that umpire tonight. He gave 2 calls of ‘not out’ for the home team where the batsman was at least 1m out. AT LEAST. These were not close calls that went in their favour, these were blatant disregard for the spirit and rules of the game. It made our team angry. We are happy to accept that umpires make mistakes, and not every call goes your way – but when he is clearly basing his decisions on which team is batting, it is wrong. I suggested to a team mate that it is no wonder they make the semi’s every year playing half their games in front of this joker… A guy from the sideline said “yeah, but we’re ahead of you on the table”. I turned and told him “you were ahead of us last year… until we beat you  twice by 100 runs in the semi finals andwe finished second..”

Getting sledged by people from other teams pisses me off. It happened again later on, after bowling a great over, a guy from the sideline sledged the shit out of me. Normally I would flash him a smile and get on with it – but he was a guy that had attacked me before. I walked over to where he was sitting and asked “when do you bat? oh… that’s right, you’re not good enough to play top grade… oh well.. it’s probably more satisfying being the best player in 3rd grade.” He stuttered and had no comeback.

There were a few funny moments – a wanker from their team faced up to the first ball of the over, then missed it, turned to the umpire and asked how many left. I walked over and said “8 minus 1 and you can’t work it out yourself, that does explain a few things”.. He then tried to hit the ball at me and got out. Score 1 to us.

At the end of the game the umpire began to have words with our team (after the 4 nationally accredited umpires questioned the rule he made up). I got the shits, gave him a spray and left.

I am pissed off with cheaters, we lost the game, the umpiring was shit, I have a massive bruise on my leg, yet still – I can’t wait for next week… Am I a sucker for punishment? Yes… but fuck I love my cricket

I know people who have left Facebook, and others who are considering it, simply because of the ridiculous number of application requests they get. Every day my requests page is flooded with

• Kath wants you to be a vampire and fight off hobos and skeletons with the ninja turtles… sorry Kath, I live in the real world, and if I’m going to play a game, it will be a little more appealing than that.

• Jimmy wants to know how alike you are… If we were anything alike, you’d know that I f*cking hate these stupid application requests.

• Bob thinks you are sexy… Bob is a man. I am a man. This doesn’t work for me, no matter how sexy Bob thinks I am.

• Gemima wants to know what kind of lover are you…? If she really wanted be my lover, she would stop wasting my time having to block her Facebook requests and making mental notes to push her over next time I see her.

• If you add this application I will have anal sex with an Arabian orphan monkey and name my unborn child gumby… Well, I’d probably consider this one… only because Gumby rocks though!

I know I am not alone, my roommate has been saving his up for a few weeks and is at well over 400 application requests.

Any application request I get, I will automatically block. Why? Because if an application was really good, someone would tell me in person about it, or write on my wall about it, they would not spam me. That is what viral marketing is, not unsolicited, unwanted advertising in my face when I could think of nothing worse. The worst are those applications that don’t allow you to use them until you spam 20 friends.

This is the big Facebook fail as far as I am concerned – they are fabricating spam and alienating their users that are act over the age of 15. When the developer platform was released, the development community was excited, but the only people to benefit are those annoying people with too much time on their hands and that enjoy doing quizzes to see which pole dancing move is most likely to pick up the inbred transsexual they secretly desire.

Don’t get me wrong, I have enjoyed quite a few applications, especially Jetman during last exam period instead of studying, but none of the applications I have added have come from requests.

Facebook seem to slowly be warming to this theory with the “Ignore All Requests” and “Block Application” options now on the requests page, but it seems this is too little too late. Facebook needs to disable applications being able to spam users, plain and simple. Until they do that, I think their user base will begin to shrink.

As well as the annoying spam is going to a loser’s person’s profile and not being able to find their wall, photos or any other core Facebook features some people still use, because their page looks like a slightly more valid, but equally painful, Myspace page. The implementation of the extended profile was another fail by Facebook. As if any of these people of well below par maturity are going to remove these applications off their page themselves. The way for that to work is if all non core applications are automatically put there, and it is then a hassle to get an application back onto your front page.

Facebook started so promising, but day after day it is slipping into just another over stimulating piece of shit website that only 15 year olds will use.

Note: I am not leaving Facebook, but may consider it in the future.

Mitchell has been playing cricket all his life, played for QLD and the Australian 1Day team – both of which are TELEVISED, yet his Dad has never seen him play.

New late favourite for the worst father of the year award!

See for yourself:
http://www.paypal.com/au

I am now on a quest to find a new (better quality) 2.5″ IDE to USB solution that supports my 160GB drive.

This is relevant because it had 3 or 4 posts on it that I now can’t access or publish