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Everyone who’s been reading me for at least 2-3 months probably remembers my little accident at FlickR. You know, the one where I couldn’t pick the country I actually live in, nor the country it split from, nor the country err…all six of these mini-countries were a part of. I thought that was a temporary glitch, so I didn’t do anything.

I tried to Google the phrase “why Yahoo doesn’t list Serbia” and even the easier variant, “Yahoo Serbia”, but the only results were ramblings about Kosovo, European union and various other Yahoo! News stories. There was no explanation why a person who’s from Serbia or Montenegro can’t select their country on any of the Yahoo network sites or any of the sites acquired by Yahoo! in near future.

I had enough of this and I contacted the support…the response I got was really, really lame and probably automatic:

Oh no! We appreciate that you contacted us for assistance, and I would love to help. However, I am unable to figure out exactly what the problem is.

In order for our MyBlogLog support team to resolve this issue, we will need to know as much of the following information as you can provide:

* Your Yahoo! ID

* The URLs for the blogs you author

* Your browser type and version number

* The text of any error messages received

* The exact steps taken that lead up to this event

Once I have all of the requested information I will investigate the error you are reporting.

ARE THEY SERIOUS?

Now I’m really glad that I don’t use Yahoo! Messenger, that I never had a Yahoo! email account or anything. Shame, shame on them.

Oh yes, PLEASE feel free to link to this particular entry, Stumble this story, submit it to Digg or whatever. I just added a plugin that does such magic. This is ignorant, ugly, stupid and it should be spreaded around, so more people would be aware of it. And of course that it matters.

This one is about quizzes as well, but smart ones. For the one with STUPID quizzes, visit yesterday’s entry.. Ktnxbai.

I’ve been solving some Phd-certified and similar (reliable) personality quizzes for a while, as well as those about right partners and other stuff…and I keep on getting my star sign and my personality type. I think I know what it means: I’m actually narcissistic and deep in love with myself.

There was that episode of Gusztav (he might be known to you who live far away from Hungary as Gustavus…and, if you have never heard of him, your personal culture is at a rather low level :p) where he was dating a bunch of girls and no girl was right for him. In the end, he ends up at a some place where a supercomputer is taking lists of what’s good about a human of opposite sex from people and generates a photorobot of that person’s ideal partner. Some old woman got an old man, a little girl got some handsome actor and then Gusztav put his paper in the computer. The machine was working hard, really hard and guess what popped out of the printer case? A doodle of angrzy Gusztav’s face. I bet the same would happen to me as well. Even though I love all of the people dear to me, I think I would only have a future with a clone of myself. Then again, that is strange, because I’m straight and not only that I wouldn’t experiment with a girl, I totally despise everything they do and my best girlfriends are either tomboys on the outside or tomboys at heart. Oh yes, 2/4 of my closest offline friends get the same results in these tests, as well as an online friend whom I consider to be the ying to my yang and the most daring person in the known universe. Another very close online friend has an INFJ/INTJ doublet. And my mother as well.

The usual thing happened with the tests for which Natalia gave me the links. So, from now on, you can call me Narcissa. O_O Narcisa would be spelling here, actually. Isobel would be good too, like in that Bjork’s song where she’s married to herself, but I used to know a girl called Isobel and she was pretty much a person I would never want to be associated to. So, I’m Narcisa and I’ll marry myself when I’ve turned 30 in 2013 or something like that:) I think there’s such a moment with The Red Guy in the Comet! episode of Cow & Chicken anyway.

So, here are my amazing test scores. Me ♥ me.

My score on The Quick and Dirty Personality Test:
INFJ - the counselor
(Your Type is 0% Extroverted, 12% Observant, 6% Logical and 50% Structured)

“Your type is best summed up by the word “counselor”, which belongs to the larger group of idealists. Only 2% of the population share your type. You are so empathic that you often know what others need before they know themselves. You are a complex person who can deal with complicated issues and people, almost prefer to, as you love problem solving. You can be something of an idealist or perfectionist, and should try to take yourself a little less seriously.
You are a supportive and insightful romantic partner, encouraging your mate to have dreams and work hard to make those dreams come true. Because you are so creative, you have a wealth of ideas to help them toward those goals. You need harmony so much that you are driven to resolve conflict quickly, as long as the terms don’t violate your ethics. You feel the most appreciated when your partner admires your creativity, trusts your inspirations, and respects your values. It is also vitally important that your partner be open and emotionally available - in other words, that they be willing to share themselves completely.
Your group summary: idealists (NF)
Your type summary: INFJ

My score on The Best Personality Type for You Test:
INFJ - The Counselor
(You scored 25 I versus E, 20 N versus S, 40 F versus T, and 60 J versus P!)

“Your ideal romantic partner is known as the counselor. This type makes a supportive and insightful romantic partner, encouraging their mates to have dreams and work hard to make those dreams come true. Because they are so creative, they have a wealth of ideas to help them toward those goals. They need harmony so much that they are driven to resolve conflict quickly, as long as the terms don’t violate their strong ethics. They feel the most appreciated when their partners admire their creativity, trust their inspirations, and respect their values. It is also vitally important that their partners be open and emotionally available - in other words, that they be willing to share themselves completely.
The group summary: idealists (NF)
The type summary: INFJ

In my previous post, I said that I prefer Facebook to MySpace. However, just like I said, there are good sides to MySpace…

…and bad sides to Facebook. Like, really bad. And I saw it coming. A couple of months ago, I sat down to read a bunch of articles on the site’s history from ’round the blogosphere and, having learned how the applications system works, my first thought was: Shit, internet advertisers, horrible typers and “modern women” stereotype are going to mess it up, it’s just the matter of time!

Of course, I was right. And this is not going to be nice. Seriously, if you can’t stand it, go to Disney and enjoy virtual preps who, among others, made the women the mediocre figures so many of them are today - the way-too-sexy cartoon girls such as Jasmine, Hercules chicks and whateverthechicksinothermovieswere. They’re cartoons. I doubt Walt Disney would’ve loved them if he was fortunate to live longer than sixty-three years. Weren’t Aurora, Cinderella and Snow White the true romantic princesses, sacrificing everything for their ideals? At least, their spirit lives through Belle, who would be my favourite; and who’s the best ever because she was an intellectual, the one who cared about her family and the one whose love was not seeing colours, forms, firm principles et cetera.

If you are not afraid of the evil Iva’s view on things, stuff and all that sh1t, do click below.

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Following comments to Mira’s most recent post, I came across Simon Owens’ huge rant, I thought I’d just finish Simon’s list (or at least extend it, in case someone else would like to finish it.

So, here are my additions to Simon’s 10-piece-list.

11.The front page of MySpace appears as an “Unknown error” 2-3 times a day.

12. They list “pagan”, “wiccan” and other similar stuff as religions, while if you happen to be an Orthodox Christian, which is one of the largest divisions of Christianity, you have to select “Christian-Other”. Come on.

13. They replied me to say that they’re sorry, but they can’t change “Yugoslavia” to “Serbia and Montenegro”. Then, when Serbia and Montenegro split, they didn’t respond to one single petition about us having rights to pick the countries we actually live in. My current location reads Beograd, Serbia, definitely not, Micronesia, Federate States Of. I didn’t want to put Yugoslavia and either way, that country was just a pale reminder of the huge happy one I was born in.

14. No RSS on blogs. No way to export or import shit in the civilised, real Web 2.0. way. So, when I post a blog here, I usually have to write a bulletin on MySpace, while my Facebook and LiveJournal have RSS and my friends on those sites know that I’d updated squirrelism.

15. No way to go to blog’s homepage when reading a blog entry. And that is downright stupid.

16. No limit in adding STUPID SHIT to one’s profile. Yes, seriously, I arrived to your profile to watch twenty-four YouTube videos.

17. The lame and shitty top friends concept. Whose idea was it to rank friends, anyway? I’m keeping my favourite musician as my number one, a work profile as number two and I added a couple of charities and nonsense links there as well, as I don’t want to rank my friends. A friend who’s totally obsessed with MySpace told me that he’d add me back to his top friends now that we’re talking again. I mean, WHAT? Do you really think I care if I’m your top friend or not? It sure is slightly flattering to me, but how are your other friends feeling?

18. Did I mention bulletins? At the very beginning, I did not understand what were those for, but now it seems that some people are using them for various exhibitionist purposes. Some of the suggestive responses I’ve seen in people’s surveys scare me. But surveys will need their own topic, as some of the repeating questions are just…marvellous.

19. The ego-factor. One of my closest friends has become a less close friend when MySpace became an important thing in her life. She was actually resisting to make an account there and then she realised what exciting work opportunities it might bring to her (she works in, let’s say, public relations). Now she’s responding with Haven’t you seen my calendar on MySpace? I was at [insert place here] for [insert the reason here]! when I ask I have not seen you in a while. Where have you been? Are you OK? Love you. Whenever I am ranting about her at home, I tell my parents that MySpace took her away from me.

20. Horrible spelling is spreading as the freakin’ flu. I don’t remember seeing misspellings such as actaully, mascarea, exems and such before. Now I almost tend to believe that people see misspelled words and think it’s the right way to write or, even worse, the cooler way?

That’s all I could think of right now. I will need one more entry to cover the phenomenon MySpace apparently is here in Serbia, but I don’t know if it’ll be interesting to people who don’t live here.

Also, I might write an entry to cover the (minor) good sides of MySpace.

OK, time for a super-boring post, a look back at 2007 for the first and last time, as even such an odd year deserves it. It was weird, from the very beginning. So, I’m glad it’s over, both according to the Gregorian and Julian calendar now. Bye-bye, so long, won’t miss you, FU.

The highlight of 2007 would probably be work and money, which is remarkably sad, but so good at the same time, as money might not buy someone happiness, but it sure makes people munch on ego waffles a bit more. Actually, that’s the only thing that matters there, the proof of achievement, just like when you’re winning awards in school.

The other highlight would be a delayed text message from one of my closest friends waking me up at the start of the second half of the year. My reaction to it was very similar to this webpage. That’s how good it was, yes. And whatever it was, it completely changes my negative outlook to life and its mysteries. Also, it made me think about my intuition, a part of me the existance of which I’d never wanted to admit before. Apparently, 2007 found me in a director’s chair, writing a rather strange script and then looking at it all actually happen, astonished, puzzled and, in many ways, confused. I learnt that I can predict things even through nonsense poems I was writing when I was fifteen. And I’m not talking only about the thing in the text message, I’m talking about a bunch of other things, but they all revolve around the same subject. I guess I should look for a parapsychologist to explain me what on Earth am I about, as I don’t know it myself.

Oooh, yes, Invisible Movement hits 500 000 in 2007. 400 000 and 600 000 as well, but those numbers are not as sexy as 500 000. Milestones are cool, aren’t they?

Other cool things would be one more trip to Gyula; RHCP at Green Fest (duh!), also seeing Rolling Stones, Muse and Buena Vista Social club live, being a spectator at the benefit where Ana Ivanović, Novak Đoković, Jelena Janković and Janko Tipsarević were gathering money for children and…so on.

Either way, because Mira will love it and because it’s kinda fitting in this particular moment:

Saw things
Clearer
Once you, were in my…
Rearviewmirror…

Now I can officially enjoy 2008, unless I should wait for the Chinese New Year to pass as well?