Life, the universe, and lunch

Fucking Microsoft screwed me again!

So I've been using MSN Messenger for a while now, and had originally tried to sign on with my @sympatico.ca e-mail address. It let me do that but wouldn't let me validate it (for some reason it hates that domain, something to do with the sympatico/msn merger no doubt) so after two weeks I had to switch to something else and picked on my work e-mail address.

My company's head office lies in a hurricane zone, so recently folks have started relying on messenger when e-mail fails. That's all fine and dandy, but for me it's a personal use thing and I've always put phrases and stuff in my screen name with swear words or references to drug fueled parties that went on too long, and didn't want to have to censor myself for the folks at work. Solution: Change the e-mail address associated with my passport to my gmail address, so no new work folks would find me.

Microsoft's online help said the change would be transparent to everybody who already had me on messenger, but THOSE BASTARDS LIE! Suddenly everyone in my list was offline, and I was offline to all of them. I had to delete all my contacts and re-add them one at a time (just exporting and re-importing them didn't work) and then tell them to delete the old me and accept the new me. A real pain in the ass but after a week or so, I was re-connected to all my friends.

Well now over the weekend, for no particular fucking reason, it happened AGAIN and I'm back to reconnecting everyone from scratch. It's probably wrong to bitch about a free service but... GOD FUCKING DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL YOU LAME ASSED MICROSOFT BASTARDS!

I feel better now (well okay, that's a lie).

posted by ...K @ 12:16 PM