Happy belated Easter to my western-Christian readers.

Dear western-Christian friends, I forgot to wish you a happy Easter, which was obviously on Sunday, 23rd.

I did so because a couple of people force-fed it to me and I already had a couple of cases where people forgot my Slava on 31st January (that’s my family’s patron saint once again! More of a pagan thing that Christian, but, well, Serbs are an interesting sort of people and probably not completely Christian either…) and my Christmas on 07th, yet, as usual, insisted to wish me a merry Christmas on 25th December and I simply decided not to bother at all. Instead of that, I spent the weekend finalising stuff for two new one-time design jobs that I snatched during March…a successful month indeed.

Also, the chocolate bunnies mania on one side and overusing of religion and making crosses out of everything on the other side totally freaks me out! As I always say, I hate comsumer-mas and consumer-ster; but at the same time, I think various backwards habits don’t have a place in XXI century. He’s risen? OK, sure he’s risen and although I’m not religions, I believe Jesus was not a myth and I respect all of the things he tried to teach people (and failed, as people seriously suck), it was, alongside Utopia and Marxism in theory the only idealistic thing in this world…but attending a mass doesn’t wash bad things you (no one in particular, any person!) might have done and it won’t change your life. It just might make you feel calm for a day or two.

But, since I know how it feels when people don’t care and when they think their culture is the only one in the world, and today is probably Easter Tuesday, happy belated Easter! I hope you all spent a nice weekend with your families. Love from me!

P.S. Mine is on 27th April this year and YES, it was on the same day as yours last year and in 2004, but NOT in 2008. I’d put money on 3 people on my friends’ list forgetting it.:p

P.P.S. If you respond to this with “Happy Easter” and you aren’t my clown-commenter; I’ll delete it and write you a long email about what I call comments taken straight from the bottom of your butt

Yahoo is on crack. I’m annoyed.

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.