Frank! Get out from in front of the screen!

Even the highly decorative Mr Bakula couldn't keep me watching Enterprise, alas, a show abandoned for many reasons, only one of which is the pole up T'Poing's butt.* Oh the hilarity as the [posting interrupted by PEBSAK**] Vulcan ice queen with her bee-stung lips and clingfilm-wrapped tits and arse turns up her plugged nostrils at the rough and manly human crew. Wah wah wah. They are barbarians. They are smelly. They eat with their fingers...

... in fact (as I've just twigged while watching a documentary) her reaction parallels that of the Japanese on first encountering European traders and missionaries, who bathed only occasionally instead of daily and ate with a knife and their hands instead of dainty and hygienic CHOP-STICKS. Gosh, what an original touch for Trek - the humans are Americans and the aliens are Japanese, snobbish and bound by honour, duty, obedience, ritual, blah blah blah.

New story please. Preferably a visit to the Planet of Sensibly Clothed Women.

* Or whatever her name is. I clicked through about five sites trying to find it when I realised I couldn't remember, and got bored with looking at flash animations and waiting for ads to load.

** Pudew Exists Between Screen And Keyboard.

Bye Bye Pacific Internet

As you know, I've dropped my korman@zip.com.au email address in favour of korman@spamcop.net. That's because my vanity domain katesfeminist.info went down, and my ISP, Pacific (who ate Zip aka Zipworld), did fuck-all to fix the problem.

I only realised the domain had died when we got back from the US; I wrote to them and got a largely incomprehensible email pointing out that the domain had originally been registered with Web City (who I nearly took to a consumer tribunal for promising Web hosting they didn't provide, but that's another story) and that it had expired but also wouldn't expire for another year. I wrote back pointing out that I'd transferred the domain to them, so were they able to fix this, or re-register it for me? Silence. Nada. No reply at all. In the meantime, my Ebay emails were vanishing since I'd set them up to go to ebay@katefeminist.info (in an effort to avoid sellers assuming I wanted my purchases sent to Australia) - I had to contact all my buyers and apologise.

So I emailed Pacific again asking for some action. Silence. Nada. No reply at all. I joined another ISP and moved all my crap over there, but I didn't get around to telling Pacific to go jump until today - when I received my monthly bill, including a $10 fee for the domain they can't be bothered to maintain. I sent 'em a rocket, and got back a form email, sorrowing that I was leaving them and asking me to let them know if there was anything they'd done wrong. Howls of derisive laughter, Bruce. I bet they charge me another $10.

I don't think I'll be getting another vanity domain.