Maybe I Should Charge $0.15 to Read

Not that it'll do anything, but this whole incoming text message thing is fucking retarded. So here's a petition from the NDP. At least they're loud.





I do believe I'll bitch at my friend who works for Mobility, even though he has nothing to do with this whole fiasco. He just sets up the antennae.

Go congratulate Don on his 300th post. To say it's a touch sarcastic would be understating things.

For those that love our little dramas, check out Perticelli's latest. The comments are where the real gold is.

I do believe I avoided playing any poker last night.... and it feels goooood.

Okie-Vegas is kicking off today. I hope everyone who's going has an absolute blast and gets back home in one piece... two at the most. I really wanted to go, but opted to stay home instead. Too much travelling of late, and undoubtedly more to come.

As for this Google situation. I'm unaffected, seeing as I don't have any ads to add nofollow tags to. I can't say I've looked over Google's terms and conditions, but let's assume the nofollow thing was there for a while and everyone just got caught in their latest sweep. The advertisers were well aware of this and should be the ones blamed - not Google. They weren't using you for your traffic, they were using you to improve their pagerank, and deliberately left out the nofollow tags from their ads to achieve that end. Google's done this countless times, and this time you're the ones that got caught. Perhaps Pastor Niemöller would have something to say about it. There are avenues to rectify this situation, but it requires you adding the nofollow tags if your pagerank is that important.

Of course, if Google just added that term of service, feel free to keep it directed at them.

Mookie tonight as always. See you there?

Drama!

Let's recap recent drama:

- Some tool accuses Don and Tragedy of collusion in the last game of the Bodonkey. This doesn't even deserve further comment.

- Donkette does things that piss people off. Maybe the whole brood is in on it. Maybe not. I wasn't involved, so I can't offer any new insights here. But if the accusations are true, it's sad. It's also a hard lesson to those involved. Don't let it taint your view of the rest of our community though.

- Hoy plays under a different name on Bodog. Smokkee and Blinders are not happy. Waffles is defending Hoy. Bodog doesn't let Canadians play, so maybe I shouldn't comment. I mean, when me, Kat, Joanne, Fuel, Schaubs, PirateLawyer, BamBam and the Tuckfards, Bankwell, Pokertart, and others can't even SIGN UP, I feel a bit slighted. Can I start some drama about this?

- Speaking of Bodog, if Google's translator can be believed, it looks like Bodonkey winner Goldenhammer can't make the trip to the WSOP. Now THAT should stir up a bit of discussion. If a Canadian had won, they'd totally go.

Man, it's been so long since we had some good blogger drama, and now the dam bursts wide open! Weeeeeee!

Timing

Um... so I have this whole post written up on reads and playing "wrong" poker in certain situations. I swear I was going to put it up around 9am today, but then decided to wait until after the TOC to post it. It's here in draft, I swear.

After all the Jr. High bullshit (gotta say though, I'm do love watching a good online battle royale) being tossed around today, I think I dodged a bullet.

CK's got a post that covers some of what I was going to say. Go read it. Man, how tacky it would have been if we'd BOTH posted similar things? Have I mentioned that I love her tagline of "Little, yellow, different."?

In the meantime, don't forget to vote on the "Give Al A Seat" post below if you're in the TOC. So what if Al says he won't take it?