Hey Freak!

Good evening. Normally, I'd be posting the answers to Match Game right now, but my entire hard drive was wiped by my computer's recovery utility. Funny, I thought "recovery" implied saving all of the data on my hard drive. Apparently not. All my contact information, links, email, and yes, even my AVN 2006 pictures?

All.

Fucking.

Gone.

Hewlett Packard sucks.

HP support? That's an oxymoron. And honestly? I had a very difficult time trying to understand the support people, because of their thick accents. I mean, really thick.

But back to the point. The HP recovery console is a fucking joke. I thought it would just go back to the last know working system configuration. You know, just like it told me it would. I believed it. I believed it when the dialog box that said "Please wait while windows is being fixed" or whatever the fuck it said (I definitely remember "fixed" in there, though. Not "windows is being re-installed" or anything like that. Fixed.) Apparently, the definition of "fixing" needs to be amended to include "destroying all the shit that you're trying to save in the first fucking place."

Hewlett Packard sucks.

And you know what I really hate? Well, remember back in the days when you'd buy a computer and get a copy of the OS on a CD with the computer? No more. Instead, HP forces you to use their recovery console. The recovery console that overwrites all your shit, and re-installs all that "sign up for AOL!" and "use Quicken 2003!" crap (not to mention about a billion really stupid online video games). Why can't I get just a CD of the OS? I paid for the computer. I paid for the fuckin' OS. It's almost as bad as fucking iTunes charging a dollar for a song that you find later will only work on the computer you downloaded it onto. Fucking rip off.

Rather than posting happy music (all of that is gone) and giving Match Game answers (fuck, I have to set up all my email shit in Tbird again), I'll be busy re-installing everything. Well, more than that, un-installing all the extraneous crap that the HP recovery utility put on.

Let me sum up.

Hewlett Packard sucks. If you're looking to buy anything computer related, don't buy anything from HP. Their products are sub-standard, and their support is virtually non-existant. They don't provide consumers anything that they can help themselves with - they want you to call support or their technicians... who, of course, will be happy to help you for a fee. What a rip. That'd be like buying a car that doesn't allow you to change your own oil or make your own repairs.

Hewlett Packard sucks.

Fuck you, HP. Fuck you.