chezsnarko rants Archive for June 2007

grrrrrrrrrrrrr™

posted by snarko on Saturday, June 23 2007

Some JERK just trademarked MY name

Oh yes indeed, this one just earned my signature online growl (it has exactly 13 "R's"). It was bad enough people starting using my official online name suddenly (when they hadn't for like 10 years); someone trademarked "snarko" as a character.

A character with an attitude.

COME ON. I'M the character with an attitide. If I have to fight it with the cartoon version of myself, I will.

No, I didn't file an official "trademark" of my name (nor the growly; except bloggers before there was such a thing as a blog all jokingly claimed certain words, and this one's mine and hard to get me to post), but that doesn't mean I haven't been the original snarko! for 17 years.

For ten of those, the only other reference was C.S. Lewis' "The Hunting of the Snark", when translated into the dead language Esperanto. I called THAT good company.

But someone selling products with MY name and MY attitude (though it's a baby--got you beat there too. I used to kick my mother in the lungs before I was even born)?! No way.

I KNOW I'm ranting but this is nearly "identity theft" to me. Why do you think I post as "therealsnarko" every time I can't get "snarko".

Now we're at war, you phony.

I Fell Off Google!

posted by snarko on Thursday, June 21 2007

I need a geek to tell me why...

Not this site. It's okay. One of my clients, Natural Ear School of Music.

If trustworthy and I know you, I'll simply let you in to look, though I'm sure most "whys" are answered by source code.

We WERE number one. Now we don't come up for our own name.

We went off Google thanks (I think) to a hacker attack--we started (unwilling and didn't notice for a while) sending out spam about porn, pharmeceuticals, ringtones, blah blah.

I deleted all traces of their software. I banned the IP I think responsible (big hit but no bandwidth). I added to robots.txt code to not even look for these directories. I changed all passwords. I set ftp access to NONE (except me). I did half a dozen other shit I can't even remember right now.

But I'm not geek enough to get us back onto Google?!

I signed up for "Google webmaster tools", and have been using them. It's like two months later, and no results.

It's costing my client tens of thousands, and I'm running out of ideas. Any geek out there wanna hit me with a suggestion?!

Said client is simply way cool; I don't want her business ruined over this!

Accordian for That Damned Band Stolen

posted by snarko on Friday, June 15 2007

just give it back!

snarko! says: the person who did this just give it back. No questions asked. You have really messed up a fantastic musician group with no way to replace what you've done.

FROM DILLIAN:

Please, if you see a beat-up blue sparkling accordion with green bellows tape, it is probably mine. It was stolen Last Friday after our gig at the Victory Grill in Austin, Texas. It was lifted out of the back of our truck, which was parked in our drive way in east Austin, and was last seen in a black soft case.

This accordion I bought for $25 and spent about 20-30 hours rebuilding it while apprenticing at Smythe's Accordion repair center. It has a C & K mic system installed in it, which are very hard to find and cost me $450 in work trade to get it installed. The accordion's name is Ms. Vermin, which is labeled on the front bellows side.

Before I bought Ms. Vermin from my good friend at her yard sale, Ms. Vermin had spent 3 years as a dead accordion on top of an altar. As you can, see I have a lot of sentimental value attached to Ms. Vermin.

Also, this is my livelihood, so please keep an eye out for it. I no longer have a way to play amplified accordion.
If you wish to contribute to my accordion replacement fund, you can make donations through Paypal under the account mr_goblegblix@hotmail.com. Anything helps!

Also, feel free to come to the show tonight, whether you have a donation or not, at Ego's We will start playing some time between 11 and midnight.

I will be posting a pic of Ms. Vermin as soon as I can on our myspace account.

thanks,
Dylan M. Blackthorn
THAT Damned Band

PS Please re-post this to anyone who might care!

PS from snarko!: YOU FUCKING JAGOFF! I mean, sorry, collecting myself cuz I'm honestly real angry at the fact my friend here, I mean, they stole AN ACCORDIAN. You have NO idea how hard that is to replace; far harder than a bass guitar, I assure you.

I'm married to a musician, afterall. Like, only a JAGOFF steals an accordian?!?!?!

WTF?!?!?!?!?!

But I swear to be real sweet if you return it, no questions asked.

And you're an IDIOT if you think you're making $ off it, if that's your gain; it belongs to the People, and you are among us, and just hurting yourself.

Really, you are.

Give it back and enjoy the show. It's nearly always free.