Bitch Blog http://bblog.midnightreign.org A place for me to bitch Sun, 08 Apr 2007 19:51:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Proof: Bitching helps *sometimes* http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2007/04/08/proof-bitching-helps-sometines/ http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2007/04/08/proof-bitching-helps-sometines/#comments Sun, 08 Apr 2007 19:50:47 +0000 lolla http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2007/04/08/proof-bitching-helps-sometines/ After finding out Harlequin was down, especially the links I was interested in, I decided to NOT suck it up for a change, and I actually e-mailed their tech. dept. Very surprised was I (if I may use Joda speak) to get a reply, in which they actually supplied me with a temporary link to get to the page I wanted, along with assurances that all will be well on their site soon.

More surprised was I, when later that same evening I optimistically trotted along to the usuall Harlequin site, and WOW! it was up and running.

“Two thumbs up” for your tech ppl Harlequin, they actually kept one lowly South African client happy smooch.

Bitching does help, and some ppl, some of the time actually seem to give a crap about their target market.

]]> http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2007/04/08/proof-bitching-helps-sometines/feed/ Online reading http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2007/04/02/online-reading/ http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2007/04/02/online-reading/#comments Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:13:38 +0000 lolla http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2007/04/02/online-reading/ In Dec I rambled on about the gap in the online reading market, especially for free romance novels. Well I have saddled that horse again! I tried to visit my regular (by this I mean daily) Harlequin site to check out what new daily read they have… but ‘lo and behold… there is no daily read, and there is suddenly no more writing round robin! How disgusted was I? What the freak am I gonna do with the extra 10 minutes I now have?

This post answers that question I suppose…. it’s obviously what I found to fill my time slot… but it’s just not the same.

Come on publishing industry…. through your own greed you know we normal slaving humans cannot really afford to buy books by the bushel… and now you shrink our free online reading fun?!

You paper pushing fiends!

]]> http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2007/04/02/online-reading/feed/ Some inspiration?? http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2007/04/01/some-inspiration/ http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2007/04/01/some-inspiration/#comments Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:28:26 +0000 lolla http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2007/04/01/some-inspiration/ Yeah I know that I said I would be back and blogging more than I have been…. but what can I say… between family, work (more like slavery) and playing Battlefield this seems to have gone by the way side. Thanx to a member of the WarGeeks clan I belong to that tripped over my blog and posted, I am back and gonna try to get stuff written down more often.

Maybe I should just post some old exam papers, or working copies of the books I am writing for anyone interested, or some frustrated teachers to take advantage of. Anyway… I will see what I can put myself up to posting….

AH! Had an idea, seeing as the nudge from hubby in Jan did not inspire me for too long, perhaps I could contact the Hugh Jackman fanclub, and ask them to get him to come do a personal nudge…. maybe some inspiration like that is all this socked out and exhausted teacher needs :D.

What? I can drool can’t I? I am married… not dead :)

]]> http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2007/04/01/some-inspiration/feed/ Human rights violation by World Health Organization http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2007/01/24/human-rights-violation-by-world-health-organization/ http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2007/01/24/human-rights-violation-by-world-health-organization/#comments Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:33:26 +0000 lolla http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2007/01/24/human-rights-violation-by-world-health-organization/ Am I the only person of half sane mind and open eye left in a 100km radius?? What is going on in the minds of Homo sapiens on Earth? I came across this page on the WHO websites, and could not believe what I read….. http://www.who.int/employment/recruitment/en/index.html Check out the bottom paragraph where they actually admit for all to see that they will actively discriminate against smokers on the grounds that they are not keeping to the “good health” image the WHO strives so diligently for. What about people who drink?? What makes a liver a more desirable organ to destroy than a lung? What about people who are addicted to medication, is the brain an organ you can destroy and not the lung? What about child abusers, sexual harassers etc, do they not affect the health of their victims, so, although indirectly, they are also not going to be employed, and will also be subjected to a barrage of questions regarding their PERSONAL CHOICES!!!

Take this one step further (if there is such a thing), and view the latest farce in the governing of our beautiful and democratically free country of South Africa… http://www.thestar.co.za/ check for today’s news…. Here is a tidbit…… Domestic workers should also be shielded from smokers in their work environment - like any other employee in the country. [ Full Story... ] Our wonderfully legally acting government now wants to stop people from smoking in their own homes due to the fact the their domestic workers may be exposed to second hand smoke or some such noxious gas. Can they rather be beaten to a pulp by a drunk boss? or raped by would be thieves when they break in while the owner is away somewhere having a long wished for cigarette? What does the government want? A multi billion dollar bribe from the tobacco industry, such as the OBVIOUSLY got from the liquor industry….. why else is no-one bringing up the fact that excessive drinking leads to liver cancer…. leads to 5 teenagers dying instantly in a head-on collision after their matric farewell….

“Oh sorry ma’am… you may not light that cigarette in your car, but do not worry…. Eish!…. take a swig of my Klipdrift (which is freely advertised on TV) and then you can drive home”

]]> http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2007/01/24/human-rights-violation-by-world-health-organization/feed/ Johannesburg Planetarium http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2007/01/16/johannesburg-planetarium/ http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2007/01/16/johannesburg-planetarium/#comments Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:49:23 +0000 lolla http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2007/01/16/johannesburg-planetarium/ Johannesburg Planetarium

Just wondering why more people haven’t been publicizing this McNaught comet in South Africa… it is so cool for kids to start learning about it early on. At least it’s here now… for whomsoever to see.

]]> http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2007/01/16/johannesburg-planetarium/feed/ I’m still around http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2007/01/16/im-still-around/ http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2007/01/16/im-still-around/#comments Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:41:14 +0000 lolla http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2007/01/16/im-still-around/ Thanx to a nudge from hubby, I am blogging now again… nothing earth shattering mind you… just warning ANYBODY who may perchance stumble (no reference intended) upon my blog that I will hopefully be blogging about all the cool sites I come across. I will be putting the ones related to school subjects - specifically biology and science - under the work related category, f.y.i. and the rest I shall feel free to dump unceremoniously anywhere I wanna :)

Hope someone finds something cool here… as I am sure to do.

]]> http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2007/01/16/im-still-around/feed/ Finally, someone talking sense! http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2006/06/28/finally-someone-talking-sense/ http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2006/06/28/finally-someone-talking-sense/#comments Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:56:37 +0000 lolla http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2006/06/28/finally-someone-talking-sense/ Great was my amazement and delight when my husband sent me this link via Stumble. http://groups.google.com/group/talk.origins/msg/7037bc7fcaf682bd

If I could I would like to enter every fanatical Bible forum group on the planet, especially those so dead set about seeing the real world, and “forum bomb” them with the contents on the mentioned page. Enlightenment can only happen when you open your eyes guys. Doh!

]]> http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2006/06/28/finally-someone-talking-sense/feed/ How duh! http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2006/04/05/how-duh/ http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2006/04/05/how-duh/#comments Wed, 05 Apr 2006 12:30:07 +0000 lolla http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2006/04/05/how-duh/ What is the idea with spamming a person’s blog? How utterly desperate must you be to sell your shit? Shame, this is really the scrapings of the human genetic pool, I think they should have remained unicellular organisms, evolution was wasted on them Mr. Darwin!

]]> http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2006/04/05/how-duh/feed/ human nature http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2006/04/04/human-nature/ http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2006/04/04/human-nature/#comments Tue, 04 Apr 2006 18:33:00 +0000 lolla http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2006/04/04/human-nature/ one of my favourite quotes from the movies, is from T2. the scene where they are on their way to new mexico and Terminator & John Connor watch two small boys playing and fighting. The T then states that it is in our nature to destroy ourselves. Nothing proves this more than the pictures here. Now I know this is not exactly the most widely read blog in cyberspace, but perhaps someone that stumbles upon it will also realize that something must be done, or something drastic must happen to human kind to wake us up.

]]> http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2006/04/04/human-nature/feed/ SPAM http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2006/03/26/spam/ http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2006/03/26/spam/#comments Sun, 26 Mar 2006 18:19:47 +0000 lolla http://bblog.midnightreign.org/archives/2006/03/26/spam/ Can you believe it! I certainly could not.

I actually got spam on a post, not once, but twice! Do the spammers think bloggers are SOOOOO glad to get a comment that they automatically let it go through? Doh!

The shear audacity! Once more proves that human kind as it stands today deserves the fact that we are wiping ourselves out. We certainly are unique amongst God’s creatures…………..

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