sunday

I finally got my phone yesterday and it’s freaking sweet. I’m still really excited about it from last night. Too bad I can’t figure out how to receive MMS messages :P And I still have a lot of playing to do, seeing as I can’t figure out how to connect to the internet and download ringtones. Unfortunately, I didn’t save my phonebook to my SIM card on my old phone, so I’m going to have to manually put them (all?) back in.

And yeah, it doesn’t have a camera, but who fucking cares?!

If I ever get the balls to go back to my primary email account, I’m going to make sure that i forward a copy of it to my secondary account, just in case this ever happens again (not that I’m not doing it already).

I think the problem might be server-related. Several times last week while I was on a google-related website I got the Server 500 error. This might have been the cause for all my emails being deleted, and even if it is so, why don’t they just own up to their mistake and restore my emails?? How hard can that be? Maybe they think that since this has only happened to a handful of people, they can ignore us and we’ll go away. Yeah, it’s happened before, check the Google forums and just search for “inbox wiped clean.” You’ll find other disgruntled (and desperate) Gmail users.

But I’ve come to realize my dependence on Gmail. Since switching over to my other account for gmail, I realized that I also had to create a new personalized home page, share documents on Docs & Spreadsheets, share my notebooks, etc etc. It’s kind of a hassle to have a duplicate of everything, but it’s easier than switching back and forth between accounts to get certain information.

No resolution or anything from Google. I thought it was over because they sent me the “We’d like your feedback” email. Of course, I gave them all negative feedback.

But this is the last straw. Before Thanksgiving rolled around, I sent Google one last email asking them if there’s any way they could restore my deleted emails. Their response: “Thanks for your response. Deleted messages are permanently removed from your Gmail account and cannot be recovered.”

But I didn’t delete my fucking emails–YOU DID!!

So I submitted the help form for my Gmail inbox disappearing. And here’s the Google Team’s response (in a nutshell):

Hello,

Thanks for your report.

We have completed a thorough investigation of your Gmail account, and can confirm that a technical problem did not cause the behavior you reported. We apologize for any inconvenience you might have experienced.

To ensure the security of your account, we suggest that you take the following measures:

In which they continue to tell me to 1) change my password and 2) change my security question. Hate to tell you this Google, but this isn’t a user error, this is a technical error. I even talked to a distant relative who works at Google and he said that this has happened before but they can restore my emails. So now the problem is, who is that someone?

Did anyone else have this problem and get it fixed?

Uploaded my favicon. yeah for the crab.

I’m having an issues with this post editor. I thought I turned off the WYSIWYG feature, but it still shows the pretty post box. This is really annoying, because I’d much rather do this in HTML. Any way to turn this stupid thing off??

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yeah nevermind, i found it.

So back to the little fiasco that happened yesterday…

All my email in Gmail is gone.

I have no mail (except for the new emails I received after 9 am yesterday). My mailbox was 5% full and now it’s 0% full. What’s the point of having 2.7GB storage space when it’s all going to be erased without notice anyways?

No this wasn’t some user error seeing as I can’t even access my Gmail account from our “secure network” at work; I watched this all happen from the Gmail widget on my personalized homepage; no, I have no idea who would hate me that much to delete all my email. Strangely enough, my other Gmail account wasn’t affected at all (or any one else’s Gmail account for that matter). And no, I don’t give out my passwords.

And the worst part is that Google doesn’t have a support line. Instead you have to jump through hoops of filling out forms that try to diagnose your problem. And when you DO finally get to a form where you submit your problem, they respond with, Check out these FAQ links and if they still don’t solve your problem, respond to this email with answers to the questions at the bottom. Lovely.

Let’s see if we make any progress today.

UPDATE: all my email just got deleted. AGAIN. Who works at Google and can fix this problem??

I’m supposed to be on a secure network at work so I don’t have access to gmail, hotmail, aim, trillian, etc. (but i managed to install and use gtalk). Anyways, so as a kind of work around and to keep myself in-the-know for my gmail inbox, i added the gmail “widget”, for lack of a better word, to my personal homepage, that way I know if there’s a sale going on at J.Crew or if Gucci has a new collection at Neiman’s.

Today, everything was going fine on my google personalized homepage. I had seven new messages out of the nine displayed in my gmail. But then all of a sudden, one of my new emails disappeared. And then moments later, I had nothing displayed in my gmail widget. To double check that this wasn’t me imagining things, I logged in to my other gmail account, but everything was working/displaying fine there. So what do I do? I send myself a test email, and sure enough, it shows up in the gmail widget just like it’s supposed to.

Now who-the-fuck is checking my email?

Update: I seem to be receiving email fine again, but all my old emails (all 5%) seem to be MIA. And fucking google has the worst support system ever.

Lots of things going on since this weekend.

First of all, saw Casino Royale; it was awesome.

Second, Pat and I pitched in for a hosted domain (no more crappy CS servers!) and it’s been eating up my attention that I didn’t so any online shopping yesterday at work, which by the way is supposed to be uber impressive. Um, no decisions as to whether I’m going to move this blog over to the new domain, seeing as I’m still trying to set my blog up and figure out how to edit templates in Wordpress and stuff like that. But I am really pleased that I can have password-protected directories on the new domain so I can organize all my private and public blogs in one spot.

Third, seeing as my old favorite phone got broken, I decided to get a new one. Yeah, I got the one that I saw in Casino Royale, the Sony Ericsson M600i that Bond was using. It’s unlocked, so no guarantees as to complete usability in the United States or even on my damn network.

Fourth, I asked my mom for a winter coat from J.Crew, but she told me that she already got me a Marc Jacobs coat and was going to surprise me when I went home for Christmas Break. So it was a pleasant surprise (Christmas came early). My mom rules!

/ˈvʌlnərəbəl/ [vuhl-ner-uh-buhl]
–adjective

1. capable of or susceptible to being wounded or hurt, as by a weapon: a vulnerable part of the body.
2. open to moral attack, criticism, temptation, etc.: an argument vulnerable to refutation; He is vulnerable to bribery.

So…my cell phone got broken last night; broken as in, ripped in half (it was a clamshell). And now I have to find a new cell phone, except they’re all going to cost at least $300 because I’m not buying a new plan with my cell phone (so I don’t get the discounted rate) and currently, Cingular doesn’t have any phones I’m just dying to have. So….basically I’m going to have to a) settle for an expensive (and mediocre) RAZR or SLVR; b) go to ebay and get a Sony Ericsson M600i; or c) go to ebay and get my old phone (Motorola v600, cheapest option). In any case, if anyone’s trying to call me, just leave a voicemail and I’ll probably not call you back unless I’m terribly bored at work.

The movie is 2 hours and 30 minutes long, but it’s filled with action and surprisingly not a lot of cheesy lines. I’ve noticed a trend where the prequel movie is better than the movie series (e.g. Batman Begins). While Casino Royale is supposed to chronicle how James Bond became 007, they weren’t particularly accurate in the technology department. Though it’s supposed to be the first in the series, why is there an Aston Martin DBS? I’m just being politically correct and the whole time warp kinda bothers me, but it’s a minor detail. So here are some pros and cons of what I thought about the movie (could be a plot-spoiler):

Not-so-good things:

• The introduction. I think it generally deviates from the standard, where the woman sings this weird song about the title of the movie and there are profiles of the women doing those abstract weird things. It was just different, not necessarily a bad thing, but I was expecting something more traditional.
• Being the prequel, there was no Q.
• Daniel Craig. As James Bond, he doesn’t exactly fit the profile. It’s been ingrained in my mind that Bond has dark brown hair, a mature but boyish-innocent face with an air of sophistication and a charming British accent, epitomized by Pierce Brosnan. Apparently, the Bond before we knew him as 007 has blond hair and a flaky British accent.
• The Aston Martin DBS gets totaled. Enough said.

Good things:

• More action. Great action. Daniel Craig is the most athletic Bond I’ve seen out of all the movies. Lots of chases, lots of physical activity, and a really chiseled body. He reminds me more of Jason Statham in The Transporter compared to his other Bond fellows like Pierce Brosnan (who in comparison to Daniel Craig is a wussy Bond).
• Movie was 2.5 hours long. I went to a matinee show and definitely got my money’s worth (actually my boyfriend’s).
• Aston Martin DBS. I’m sure it has an engine of a plane. And it’s freaking sweet. I’m speechless.
• Closure. I can making the movie so long gives the story time to explain everything, from why Bond is so detached, why he doesn’t trust anyone, to he is who he is. Like Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Daniel Craig fully develops his character as James Bond. I wouldn’t mind if he played Bond in a couple more 007 movies, although maybe he could dye his hair so he’s more convincing as my ideal Bond.

From The Register:

The defence lawyer of a Wisconsin man charged with having sex with a dead deer is claiming he’s innocent of any wrongdoing - because a “crimes against sexual morality” statute prohibits sex with animals, but fails to mention carcasses, The Duluth News Tribune reports.

The 20-year-old sex offender is currently facing possibly nine months of jail time and a $10,000 fine, but if convicted, he could be in prison for up to two years for a previous conviction. Yes, he did kill a horse to try to have sex with it.