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Sometimes, more often than not, I just get pissed off, and then I regret the time I didn't know anything about computers (and didn't attempt to do anything else with them than typing LaTeX), a time my life was about cinema, girls and mathematics (not necessary in this order).

Looks like my life expectancy has dramatically decreased the day I bought my first laptop (and had the crazy idea that it would be fun to learn how those things work), and not only my life expectancy but also the time I spent seeing movies or the time I spent with girls my wife.

Why ladies and gents ?, because those stupidly written programs simple don't freaking work !, or not even attempt to do what they are supposed to be doing.

Why on Earth, for instance, doesn't iChat (a program written by people who are paid to write programs) connect to a Jabber server I run on my laptop ? Why does it have to complain about some lack of Internet connection when I clearly specified that the server is on localhost. And furthermore, why doesn't this piece of shit do it, given that Adium (a program written by volunteering people who are not even paid to do so) did it in two tenth of a second.

If only I could have a look at the code, I would correct myself the moment where an idiot at Cupertino freakinly assumed that I am not clever enough to run my own Jabber server, but I can't even do that. If I had an Apple employee next to me right now, I would hit him/her with the MacBook Pro until nothing else than blood would remain on the floor.

This was admitedly not at all, not even in a million years, the biggest instance of getting pissed off (I have hundread of other more worring examples), but that one was the last straw...