22 September, 2004

I’m giving away GMail invites.
I have 2 invites for GMail to give away.
I just want a little sketchy-doodle in exchange, really. Doesn’t have to be super-fancy work of art. Doesn’t have to be inked or colored, or anything. I just want to put a face to the description, really.

Before clicking, I will say that the descriptions are somewhat adult in nature, so please, do not click if you’d be offended.

The first is something I’d like to see a little scribble of. Nothing too wild, really.
“Winged White Vixen”

The other is also something that would make me smile. There are two descriptions on this one. Feel free to choose one or the other, as either one would make me happy.
“…In those jeans~”

Thanks :3

I’ve noticed a few hits here that claim to belong to the Federal Express / Kinkos range, so I’d like to simply say the following, if there really is a person behind the hits, perhaps trawling (or trolling, in one deleted case) the Internet to get a feel for how their company is being accepted.

20 cents a minute plus tax, while restricting access to personal media such as USB stick drives, and forcing people to either use Internet Explorer, or using this ARCHAIC version of Netscape (4.79, I must say, was a bad vintage) at the same time…
This is bad.
Very bad.
I can understand 10 or 15 cents a minute with those restrictions, but $1.07 for 5 minutes is really not a fair price.
If I’m going to pay out the nose to use a computer, I damn well better have the ability to access my media at the same time. What am I supposed to do, otherwise?
Use Floppy Disks?
Don’t make me laugh. You know, I know, the rest of the Internet knows, Floppy Disks are becoming a thing of the past. Companies are skipping the installation of one of those critters on some of their new PCs, because they’re not used for much.
In an age where a blank CD or a USB keychain drive can be had, byte for byte, at a far cheaper rate than a floppy (You do the math: 700 MB CD, 1.44 MB floppy, various sizes for USB sticks, usually in increments of 2^2 (ie: 8, 16, 32, 64, 128…). Subtract any and all overhead associated with writing to the disk (Which isn’t too much), and there’s your total available space. Now, calculate the cost for one piece of media from a standard pack of this media, and finish your math up here), people are switching.
Files are getting bigger, and harder to carry on a floppy.
Who has time to split files, and wait for them to be written to a floppy that can fail without telling you?
Who wants to remember the dreaded Track 0 Error with one paragraph left on their midterm thesis from hell?

I don’t know too many who would dig this.

Pass this along to your high caliber muckity-mucks:
Lower the costs, or give access to more removable media choices.

Just my two cents.
Feel free to reply, or even email.