I've posted before about the draft website that I run, www.slowlivedraft.com. The main problem that I'm having right now is beyond my control. Everything I've written for the site is working properly. Unfortunately, every time a draft pick is made, I get about 8 emails from yahoo.com's mail servers (mta-v1.mail.vip.re3.yahoo.com) saying that my email has been delayed. I went to Yahoo's help to figure out how to make that not happen, since it's really annoying, and almost 100% unnecessary. I had to fill out at least three forms, and send them a helluva lot of information including a sample email, a sample bounce message, IP of the server, tracert from the server to Yahoo, etc, etc. I thought that would get me on a list of "not-spammers". No, it got me bounced from person to person in the mail department. How do I know this? Upon submitting all that crap, I got a form letter email saying:

Then, 2 days later, I got another one. Then, 2 days later, I got another one. Then I got an email saying:

So, Yahoo's massive servers can't handle about 10-20 3-line emails where there's 3 yahoo.com addresses in the To: field. Basically, Yahoo is asking me to tell people to switch their email addresses, since the Yahoo servers can't handle the traffic. Gmail doesn't have this problem. Hotmail doesn't have this problem. Only Yahoo. Message to the world: Yahoo mail servers are weak, and will delay email. Use other companies' free web mail accounts.
Yes, I understand the irony of posting this on a Yahoo-based blog. But I had to put it up somewhere, lest I forget those who wrong me.

Here's the article, wherein Mike Wise expresses his idiocy:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/30/AR20060830030...

Here's my reply, mostly so I don't forget to save it somewhere:

"First of all, there's no I-A or I-AA any more. It's Football Bowl Subdivision and NCAA Football Championship Subdivision. But I'm sure that's a gripe you left out.

Show me a collegiate sport where this doesn't happen. On Duke's men's basketball page, I count non-conference games against the likes of Columbia, Kent State, and Holy Cross. Why aren't they playing Kentucky or Florida or Oklahoma instead? According to MLB.com, the Yankees played the Royals and the Devil Rays this year? Why not swap those games for Boston and Minnesota? I'm sorry that every non-conference game on every football schedule isn't a matchup between two powerhouses, but why not spend an article decrying the lack of a playoff system (which would get you those non-conference powerhouse matchups at the end of the season, when you would actually know who the best teams were) instead of insulting the entire NCFS division? Particularly, I don't understand the animosity towards William & Mary. There are plenty of NCFS schools with lower football profiles, even here in Virginia.

In regard to your comments regarding Jimmye Laycock's quote, I'd suggest that there will be some Maryland alumni in 20 years who remember the 4 games they played in.

By the way, William & Mary were King and Queen of England in 1693, when the College was founded. Not, as you proposed, a "prom couple from Culpeper". As of this writing William & Mary is just shy of having as many presidential alumni as NFL players. They do have the same number of NFL players as Duke, who Maryland is required to play/slaughter on a yearly basis. But I'm sure that would have gotten in the way of your insults, so let's just keep that between us."

Also, shout out to Jeffrey Rowland at Overcompensating.
"You know, there's something about a nice suit that makes people take you a little more seriously, even when you shouldn't. Sometimes a suit is the only thing that separates powerful people from the common, ordinary street lunatic.

For example, if a man wearing five coats and a shoe on his head came up to you and said "God told me to invade Iraq" you would get scared and yell for help. But if someone in a suit says "God told me to invade Iraq," people apparently take them seriously. Remember that? Ah, the good old days. "

http://www.gasbuddy.com

It has an entry for how long ago the prices were updated, and as comprehensive a list of gas stations as I've seen anywhere. I'm testing it out on my phone now. The next step is synch'ing that up with some sort of cartographic database that allows you to select a state, a highway, and an  exit number, or maybe a road in a city or something. I saw that there's a googleMaps/GasBuddy combo of some sort, but I haven't heard good things about the frequency of its updates.

A news story on NPR this morning was talking about the massive immigration to Ireland, and mentioned specifically the Polish immigrants. They included a quote from a Polish woman, and I think that's the first time I've ever heard a Polish accent mixed with an Irish accent. Unmistakeably there, though.

Hopefully, I'll remember to put something up soon about Everything Is Illuminated. That's the best movie I've seen since Match Point, and maybe better than that one.