Oil hits >$140 a barrel and the price at the pump nears $5...OK, I took it in stride.
They closed one of my Starbucks locations. Big deal, there are 6 more within walking distance I can get to.
The swim is cancelled at the World AG Triathlon Championships AND they screw up the results, pretty much wasting the time and effort I put into the race. Sucks, but I had another race two weeks later and moved on.
But today, the fun folks at Hasbro and Mattel have really pissed me off. They have caused the shut down of Scrabulous, a Scrabble-like application on Facebook. Apparently, this is the second time they've done this - they killed a Google maps version of Risk last year (?). They'd threatened such action against Scrabulous since a suit was filed back in January, but everyone kept playing and the Indian brothers that created Scrabulous continued to play their hands (er, tiles).
Today, I signed on to Scrabulous and found a message telling me that it has been turned off. How else am I supposed to waste time between (OK, sometimes during) phone calls and work assignments? How else am I supposed to prove (or disprove) my intellectual superiority among friends?
This is a pretty dumb move by Hasbro/Mattel and flies in the face of what most organizations have learned about social networking and the nature of the Internet. OK, the brothers generate some $25,000 per month with Scrabulous. But - BIG DEAL!! How many times did I think of Scrabble before playing Scrabulous? Um....NONE!! Not in the last 5-10 years, anyway. So brighter minds might have approached Scrabulous more openly, tried to capitalize on their success, done cross-promotion, bought them out, etc. All this does is create ill will -- and TAKES AWAY SOMETHING I LIKE WITH NO SUBSTITUTE!
Basically, this sucks. I'd tell you the point value of "sucks", but my memory isn't that good.
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