Well, now it's back again... still crap since it's no longer text... but I can use it again. And give me a break: Flash commercials that autostart playing with sound? How are you supposed to read the article with Schwab yapping in the background?
Don't these companies realize there will be a backlash? I don't just mean the sites hosting the shit-mercials... I mean companies like Schwab who are using this medium. I resent any company using flyover layer ads, flash movie shit-mercial ads, etc. Bad enough I have to deal with them on TV already - leave me alone while I'm reading. Blinking, flashing, and noise-making advertisements with only incur my vitriol.
I make a note of these ads as I see them, and frankly -- I hold a grudge against those companies that use them. The same way I hold a grudge against companies that use spyware and pop-up ads. I don't know how Schwab does as a brokerage firm -- but I don't care. They will end up being my *last* choice, because of their invasive advertising.
Do you think that was what they intended? Neither do I. Tough shit for (on) them.
I have a headache, and I am tired. Time for a nap.
I've gotten rid of comments on my journals... tired of getting spam posts for sex and drug sites. Disabled the comments form altogether... so when you get a 403 error on previous post's comment links - you'll know why. :-)
Also removed abcnews.com from my links to news sites. I used to really enjoy just going to and reading the news feed. It was all I wanted from a news site - no flash, no pics -- just tell me what's going on.
First they filled it with ads (from it being just text), now they've moved or removed it altogether. F*ck them. Nothing like alienating a loyal audience. I hope whoever made that decision gets hit by a bus AND shat upon by a flock of pigeons AND is the victim of identity theft.
Okay. Time for me to go get some counseling... and a new NEWS site.
Christopher Reeve has died. May he rest peacefully.
I once spent hours in the bathroom as a child trying to get the curl to stick on my forehead they way his did in the first Superman movie. I never could get it right...