You know, gremlins seem to follow me no matter where I go. At work, at home, anything to do with computers and I just get the most annoying things happening.

My computer was not set up properly in my new department. From the get-go, I had network errors, script errors, and problems logging in. I finally got the Help Desk to send someone on Friday. The guy fixed everything except one password, which is apparently unchangeable, reset my network settings, and fixed it so I could add printers myself, which had somehow gotten screwed up.

Only now I can’t print at all. Because the printer is looking for a printer tray that does not exist.

Everyone on the floor prints to this giant Xerox printer. It has six paper trays: 1,2,3,4, High Speed, and Bypass. My computer is looking for Auto, Top, or Main. It can’t find them when I print. So it puts my job in the hold queue. If I try to release it, it prints my cover page, and then tells me that Auto (or Main, or Top) is empty, and to please fill it with paper. But I can’t. Because the trays do not exist. Doesn’t matter if all the trays are full, it’s still looking for the fictional trays. I tried to fill them with fictional paper, but it didn’t work.

So I called the help desk and went through the usual help desk rigamarole. Favorite part: “Can you find the reset button on the printer and hit it two or three times?” Oh, yeah, sure. It’s only a five-figure high-quality printer that everyone on the floor (and I’m on the executive floor) shares, sure, I’ll disrupt their print jobs. I can’t even find the reset button, if the printer even has one.

She gave me a ticket number and set it to “urgent.”

I’m emailing my documents to my coworkers when I need to print.

Anyone want to take a pool on when the IT guy manages to come out and fix my printing problems? I call Friday.

Say, that “military wing” of Hamas that we keep hearing about? Would this be it?

Hamas leaders vowed to continue fighting Israel as tens of thousands cheered and waved the group’s green flags and masked gunmen hoisted assault rifles, rockets and anti-tank missiles.

“We will not rest and will not abandon the path of Jihad and martyrdom as long as one inch of our land remained in the hands of the Jews,” said Raed Saed, a senior Hamas leader in Gaza City, using the Arabic term for holy war.

“We are celebrating our victory in Gaza and now we are headed toward Jerusalem, Nablus, Akko, Haifa, the Galilee and all of Palestine,” he said.

“Sharon, you should know that we will win - the only language spoken will be the language of weapons. We are young people who aspire to die for Allah and for the weapons we are carrying.”

These are the people that the EU and State want Israel to negotiate with. No, wait, silly me. That’s the political wing. This is the military wing. Of course the political wing would wholly disapprove of such sentiments.

Except somehow, the political wing is still part of the organization that calls for Israel’s destruction. I’m not really getting how the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing, but then, I’m not a diplomat with dozens of years of experience in these matters.

The WaPo is back to business as usual, explaining that Hamas has a “political” wing and a “military” wing, but not pointing out that the Hamas charter explicitly calls for the destruction of Israel (and is chock-full of anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories as well).

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 16 — Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Friday that his government will refuse to assist the Palestinian Authority in holding legislative elections in January if the militant group popularly known as Hamas is allowed to participate.

“We will never agree that this terrorist organization, this armed terrorist organization, will participate in the elections,” Sharon told a group of U.S. journalists during a nearly 1 1/2 -hour session, referring to Hamas, which is formally called the Islamic Resistance Movement. He said that if Hamas is allowed to participate, then Israel will not lift roadblocks on the West Bank or take other measures to smooth the way for Palestinian elections.

“I don’t see how they can have elections without our help,” Sharon said. “We will make every effort not to help them in their elections.”

Sharon added that he had no control over voting in Gaza, which Israel vacated last month after 38 years of occupation. He said Israel would tolerate Hamas’s participation only if it gives up its arms and renounces its goal of destroying the Jewish state. “An armed organization doesn’t become democratic once they participate in the election,” Sharon said, calling the Hamas charter “one of most terrible documents that exists.”

Hamas, which has an armed wing and a political wing, has participated in local elections but plans to test its electoral strength for the first time in parliamentary elections. Hamas has claimed credit for Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza; tens of thousands of its supporters rallied Friday to celebrate the pullout. Hamas, which provides social services throughout Gaza, is viewed by many Palestinians as less corrupt and more efficient than the Fatah organization of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Nowhere in the article is there a description of what the Hamas charter says. Nowhere in the article does it even have the AP boilerplate, which points out that Hamas is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Israelis in terrorist attacks. But it does state this:

Sharon’s vow, which he has privately repeated to President Bush and other world leaders attending the U.N. General Assembly this week, appears to conflict with the U.S. position that the Palestinian Authority should decide who can participate in its elections.

Shame on you, WaPo. Your readers deserve the truth, not this biased version of it.