I loaded the Netflix app yesterday and ended up watching a couple of movies on my iPad (Zombieland anyone?). Even as big of a geek as I am, I was still amazed that something just seems to work—with no fiddling, no settings and no grief.

I also watched one on my big screen using PS3 as the streamer. Blockbuster—you are toast.

I just found out that this site had been hacked and that after a minute or two on here, it would automatically redirect the viewer to another site.

Believe me, I fixed this as soon as I could. It involved changing of passwords, overwriting the header.php file (which is where the code actually was performing the redirect) and deleting the sorry sack of shit who had somehow set himself up as an Admin (WTF, WordPress?!?).

I always have the latest, most secure version (2.9.1 as of this writing), so this is upsetting, to say the least.

I am in the process of creating a new blog that will deal with a more broad-based range of issues than the narrowly-focused Gay, ex-Mormon viewpoint expounded upon via this one since 2001.

While I will continue to update this blog sporadically, I foresee my main focus moving to the new blog.

You can visit it by clicking Snarkcasm.com.

I hope to see you there!

I spent a chunk of time last night on the phone to Adobe’s customer service center (apparently still in India).

I had previously qualified to purchase the CS4 Premium Design suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.) from my Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 suite last year (Adobe had purchased Macromedia), but quickly found out then, that in order to activate it, I had to call their customer service center.

From there — after proving to the rep that I had a legitimate copy and that, yes, I was entitled to upgrade from my previous Dreamweaver product (had he ever been to the Adobe site?) — I was provided with a series of keystrokes that took me to a hidden window where a “challenge code” was displayed that had to then be relayed via phone to obtain a “response code”, which would allow me to actually use the programs I had just spend $600 to buy.

On Tuesday, I got a new Mac and in order to install the suite, had to “deactivate” it on my old laptop (which I sold to a co-worker’s mother yesterday). I then spent a good hour installing it on the new 17″ MacBook Pro last night and ran yet again into the same “challenge/response” requirement.

You know, I could have “found” a pirated/hacked copy and bypassed this crap — and saved a lot of time and money.

I love how their anti-piracy policies punish legitimate buyers. Reminds me of why I left Microsoft and their draconian policies that are very similar. I still get a “this copy of Windows XP is not valid” every few times I start it up via Parallels on my Mac and then it is disabled until I reboot.

Fun.