🚀 go-pugleaf

	Squeamish people: Please, avert your eyes or use protective 
goggles for the duration of this rant.

Marvin Richardson (marvinr@apk.net) wrote:
: Have you ever noticed that the PeeDee usually rarely features a local
: provider or Internet type business? Maybe last week was an exeption
: because they had to woo us back after they doubled there rates.

<tasteless, uncalled for rant on>

	Actually, the Personal Tech section was kind of cool.. before 
anyone really read it that is.. remember when it first started it was 
just like one guy there (probably the designated "computer geek") that 
got stuck with the job of writing ALL the articles in the entire section? 
:)  I kinda liked it back then.. now its just full of bloated advertising 
and boring tidbits.. "Hey!  The Beach Boys are going to be appearing LIVE 
on AOL on Thursday!!!! Don't miss it dudes!  KEYWORD: OLDTIMERS"

	Just from my general recollection, one the front page they run 
that lame column with people writing in: "Hey.. I've got an XT that I'd 
like to sell.. I think $999 is a reasonable price for it considering I 
paid over $10000 for it new!  What do you think?"  
	Are ANY of those articles written by local people anymore?  The 
entire thing takes up like one sheet of newsprint front and back.. their 
"WWW site of the week" (whatever) things are usually about as exciting as 
visiting the "Worst of the Web" page.. ;) 
	Is this mass-marketed, consumer driven gibberish what you really 
want to see them portraying the "information revolution" as?  No, there's 
NOT a bunch of happy little computer people on "the Web" that get up 
every day just to hear you bitch and moan or post some stupid "Make Money 
Fast" message that we've all seen 10,000 times before!  

	Ahem.. <cough> Sorry.. sort of lost control there.  I'll go now 
and beat myself over the head with an "Internet for Dummies" book.. 
(I can only find salvaging hope in the fact that the pre-computers 
generation will slowly die off leaving us, hopefully, with generations of 
clueful, computer educated people that know how to program their VCR's 
without VCR-Plus.)

<rant mode off> :)

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