NOTE: I used lowercase spam this time, as it seems the processed meat company doesn’t like me when I use it in all capital letters.

OK, here we go, I have a new number one annoyance. As most of you living in the US know, election day is very close. Well here in Illinois, it seems that our Democratic party has taken up the old fashioned way of reaching people, the telephone. What is wrong with this? Nothing actually, as I enjoy listening to the respected candidates proposals.

What I don’t like, is when I receive 31 phone calls a day from the candidates. In Illinois, Tammy Duckworth, who everyone knows as the woman who lost her legs in Iraq, and actually has a lot of strong views, that even me as a conservative, enjoy. What I don’t like, is that it is 12pm, lunchtime, here in the Chicago land area, and I have 9 10 Tammy Duckworth phone calls, from a stupid computer. Now don’t get me wrong, Tammy isn’t the only one, just the worst offender currently.

I think the “smear” campaign ads on TV, the radio, and the Internet are enough. I think this mass calling crap is going to wear thin on the people, and only move them against you, because you bother them from 9am to 9pm. And people wonder why I hate telephones

OMG! Right as I go to hit post, guess whose computer called me?

Just think, if a person was using Ubuntu, in my case Kubuntu (should be everyone’s case as well), there would be reason for the following:

• Signs of a desperate man - a man wouldn’t be desperate with Ubuntu
• Signs your having a good day - who needs a good day, when you could have an amazing day with Ubuntu
• Signs you play to much dungeons and dragons - with Ubuntu who has time for their family, let alone D&D?
• Reasons why you cannot get to sleep - sleep is overrated, it is for the dead, plus who wants to sleep when you can contribute to Ubuntu?
• Buttons you need on your keyboard - well, Ubuntu hasn’t quite fixed this one just yet, I am still w/o a few of my media keys <- winky
• Signs that your computer is slow - install Xubuntu and this issue will go away, or invest in a server and hook up some LTSP action.
• Ten things to do when your ISP is down - you guessed it, with Ubuntu your ISP would never go down

Corny some might call it (probably everyone will call it corny), but i had fun reading Keepers of the Lists tonight after my hacker buddy RJ (not AJ), introduced me to the site. How about a list for “Reasons why your dog couldn’t eat your homework”, oh, because you did it with Edubuntu!

Jono, this is to you bud! I am so guilty of the “winky smile” as you put it. I am probably one of the worst offenders. But I think one up on the winky smile, is this one:

This little bugger is known to cause various effects to the different IRC clients. For instance, the most common would be the . I will add to my Konversation “Auto Replace” function, so it spits out a proper