Hotmail still blows

I, like many, used Hotmail as my first email account. That was back in 1996, before we had choices and Microsoft ruined it. I've moved on to gmail, but still use it as a lightning rod for spam. Every once in awhile, however, I log in to round up the 10/1000 legit emails and inform them that I've changed email addresses.

So now Hotmail has implemented a ton of ajax and other stuff they never would have done if gmail hadn't forced them to do so. So now I'm logging in for the first time in awhile to see what's there. I thought I'd write about it as I go, to see if Hotmail actually has something to compete with now.

Here it goes. Oooo... Look at all the reflections. It seems fast enough. The first few pages of email have been processed.

Uh oh. It's stuck. I got an email from Live Journal that isn't loading, due to something at 'h.live.com' that doesn't want to join me. I'll wait.

3 minutes? I'll keep waiting. I want to see this.

6 mins. Fuck. Reload.

Waiting ...

Fuck it, it doesn't work. Who gives a shit anyway. If I posted anything at all on Live Journal it's most likely just making fun of some techno kid that wishes there were a legit reason to wear a trench coat to his job at Staples. Email deleted, moving on.

A co-worker added me on a Facebook account I forgot I even had. There's a link to check it out. Click. Nope. I'm again caught in a perpetual load. Delete.

This happens two more times. Lame.

So Hotmail is still shit. 40% of the email I wanted to see didn't work. That's not good. I guess I kinda could have guessed that, so there's no point to having written any of this. Sorry.

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Mom blames Satan for burning baby in microwave | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

... not too crazy, considering our current President believes that we're at war because God told him to.

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