Apparently no one in new york state knows how to plow a road by 3 in the afternoon.
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Friday, September 19, 2008
Mens warehouse sent me the wrong size tux from what i ordered. I guess their five percent fail rate is correct.
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
Enterprise Rent A Car - Cash Isn't Good Enough
Recently contacted Enterprise Rent A Car to get a car for an upcoming trip. I had to call three locations to find one that even had cars in stock - the other two didn't, but the website said they did. That is something that the first guy said is "above his pay grade".
The third location then explained that if you do not want to use a credit card - and would rather use a debit card, then you have to provide them with your utility bill and pay stub - and have the address match your license. In addition they put a $300 hold on the debit card plus the cost of your rental.
Clearly something has gone horribly wrong in this country when companies are penalizing people and businesses who choose to pay for what they need with cash / debit card instead of making the credit card companies even more money. Requesting that people show a rental car company their utility bill and pay stub is terrible. Shame on Enterprise Rent A Car.
It's not a matter of not having a credit card, its the point that you should be able to pay with cash, credit or debit without having to give someone a utility bill and a pay stub.
Hopefully other rental car companies are not this rude to their cash paying customers.
The third location then explained that if you do not want to use a credit card - and would rather use a debit card, then you have to provide them with your utility bill and pay stub - and have the address match your license. In addition they put a $300 hold on the debit card plus the cost of your rental.
Clearly something has gone horribly wrong in this country when companies are penalizing people and businesses who choose to pay for what they need with cash / debit card instead of making the credit card companies even more money. Requesting that people show a rental car company their utility bill and pay stub is terrible. Shame on Enterprise Rent A Car.
It's not a matter of not having a credit card, its the point that you should be able to pay with cash, credit or debit without having to give someone a utility bill and a pay stub.
Hopefully other rental car companies are not this rude to their cash paying customers.
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Sunday, August 17, 2008
In line at the b and h photo store. Now i know why i just order online. Waiting around for 30 minutes to buy something is lame.
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Figured we would order tickets for a circle line cruise and pick them up only to find a line to get them. What a rip off.
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
Circuit City Manager Says "Order it Online"
A friend of mine today had a very interesting experience at Circuit City. He went into the store to buy a camera and had been given a price over the telephone from Circuit City earlier, so the customer service rep pulled up the item and was ready to ring it up.
However, the item came with some other bundled items which they didn't have in stock, so he got with just a printer, used a coupon from AAA and all was good.
There was another canon camera that he was going to buy and the manager refused to let him us a coupon on it. Stating that the item was on sale. When told that the coupon would work if you type it in online, the manager said "then buy the camera online". So the employee turns the computer (POS machine) over and allows him to stand there and try to order the camera online.
He got very frustrated with the machine running slowly and the keyboard being not normal, that he gave up and left. Decided instead to call and place the order over the phone.
After talking to the sales rep on the phone and the rep attempting to figure out how to sell a camera, he said that he could not sell the bundle as the online training that comes with the bundle is not available in our area. He asked "do you have any other addresses". Well if its not available in a market with 3 Circuit City stores - where else could the Firedog online training be available.
Why is it that you can't be sold online training anywhere? Not sure... Why does Circuit City Firedog online training say its only available in certain markets? It doesn't make any sense. So my friend speaks to the guys supervisor.
The supervisor says the same thing "sorry for the inconvenience". Then he says that the coupon can't be used till tomorrow. At this time my friend had already been on the phone for over an hour. The supervisor offered to call him back when the coupon would be good at midnight that night so that he could place the order.
This was just such a ridiculous story that I felt that others might get a kick out of how unempowered these Circuit City employees must be. So after a long phone call and a trip to the Circuit City store, still no camera ordered.
At least the store seems to have changed their managers - the old manager said that he didn't care that his employees didn't help customers purchase lcd tv's... but that's a whole other story.
However, the item came with some other bundled items which they didn't have in stock, so he got with just a printer, used a coupon from AAA and all was good.
There was another canon camera that he was going to buy and the manager refused to let him us a coupon on it. Stating that the item was on sale. When told that the coupon would work if you type it in online, the manager said "then buy the camera online". So the employee turns the computer (POS machine) over and allows him to stand there and try to order the camera online.
He got very frustrated with the machine running slowly and the keyboard being not normal, that he gave up and left. Decided instead to call and place the order over the phone.
After talking to the sales rep on the phone and the rep attempting to figure out how to sell a camera, he said that he could not sell the bundle as the online training that comes with the bundle is not available in our area. He asked "do you have any other addresses". Well if its not available in a market with 3 Circuit City stores - where else could the Firedog online training be available.
Why is it that you can't be sold online training anywhere? Not sure... Why does Circuit City Firedog online training say its only available in certain markets? It doesn't make any sense. So my friend speaks to the guys supervisor.
The supervisor says the same thing "sorry for the inconvenience". Then he says that the coupon can't be used till tomorrow. At this time my friend had already been on the phone for over an hour. The supervisor offered to call him back when the coupon would be good at midnight that night so that he could place the order.
This was just such a ridiculous story that I felt that others might get a kick out of how unempowered these Circuit City employees must be. So after a long phone call and a trip to the Circuit City store, still no camera ordered.
At least the store seems to have changed their managers - the old manager said that he didn't care that his employees didn't help customers purchase lcd tv's... but that's a whole other story.
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Circuit city manager wont sell us something in store for the same price as it is online. So we used their computer to order it.
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At circuit city a sales guy tried to argue that a nikon camera was better than a canon. Said i wanted a canon and they went on about nikon
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Domains Stolen From GoDaddy
I just spoke with someone at GoDaddy and he offered to help this person restore their domain.
He wanted to make sure that it was clear that they do send an email when the email address was changed. He also said that if you discover things like this right away, there is an undo department - which you can contact if you happen to catch things quickly.
The above mentioned 60 day rule is actually a GoDaddy Rule - not an ICANN rule. This rule only locks it based on the first/last name or organization field.
ICANN has a rule that says that if you transfer from one registrar to another registrar it can't be transferred for 60 days.
He wanted to make sure that it was clear that they do send an email when the email address was changed. He also said that if you discover things like this right away, there is an undo department - which you can contact if you happen to catch things quickly.
The above mentioned 60 day rule is actually a GoDaddy Rule - not an ICANN rule. This rule only locks it based on the first/last name or organization field.
ICANN has a rule that says that if you transfer from one registrar to another registrar it can't be transferred for 60 days.
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Domains Stolen From GoDaddy
I've been helping a friend try to recover a stolen domain name (was at GoDaddy) for the last week. Someone logged into the account, changed the email, and all the information on the account to something in India.
Then they transferred the domain name out of the account to a protected name service at name.com
That was over 3 months ago. GoDaddy never emailed to say "are you sure you want to change all your account info, or email address, or transfer this domain". Instead he was left blind sided by all this. Until the hacker changed his password - then he realized that something was up.
When he did discover that all this had happened - and contacted GoDaddy - they said that there was nothing they could do.
I'm pretty stumped as to how all this happened without GoDaddy so much as notifying the customer that their account information had been stolen. But this certainly doesn't make me think too highly of GoDaddy.
I am still hopeful that they will be able to recover the domain name.
He spoke with someone who looked into it all and found out that the registrant info was never changed before they transferred the domain. This was likely because of the icann rules that say that you can't transfer a domain name within 60 days of changing the registrant info.
Then they transferred the domain name out of the account to a protected name service at name.com
That was over 3 months ago. GoDaddy never emailed to say "are you sure you want to change all your account info, or email address, or transfer this domain". Instead he was left blind sided by all this. Until the hacker changed his password - then he realized that something was up.
When he did discover that all this had happened - and contacted GoDaddy - they said that there was nothing they could do.
I'm pretty stumped as to how all this happened without GoDaddy so much as notifying the customer that their account information had been stolen. But this certainly doesn't make me think too highly of GoDaddy.
I am still hopeful that they will be able to recover the domain name.
He spoke with someone who looked into it all and found out that the registrant info was never changed before they transferred the domain. This was likely because of the icann rules that say that you can't transfer a domain name within 60 days of changing the registrant info.
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Saturday, July 05, 2008
At circuit city. In fifteen
At circuit city. In fifteen minutes looking at lcd tvs no one came over to help. Spoke with the manager, he didnt care.
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Monday, June 16, 2008
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Friday, June 13, 2008
Just called the local chevy
Just called the local chevy dealer to make a service appointment. They said they taking the next few saturdays off. Whats up with that.
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Thursday, March 27, 2008
pierce wins the celebrity apprentice.
Looks like they named pierce the celebrity apprentice. I am some what disappointed but he die win based on the criteria put forth.
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Thursday, March 20, 2008
time warmer road runner service outage
Time warmer road runner service is out in new york. Reporting a 600 ms ping time for the second hop. Tech support hold time 25 minutes.
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
Articlesnatch is now moved to a new server for better database performance. http://www.articlesnatch.com/ has more improvements coming soon!
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Saturday, February 16, 2008
Articlesnatch tag pages are back on http://www.articlesnatch.com/ more performance improvements to come shortly
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Friday, February 15, 2008
articlesnatch database upgrade going on.
Still working on getting http://www.articlesnatch.com/ fully functional again. We are switching database servers for increased performance.
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Thursday, February 07, 2008
Why Does National Positions SEO Firm Has To Spam
I'm not sure I really know why this company sends out spam to promote their claim that they can get you ranked better in google, yahoo and msn. If they could, then they wouldn't send out SPAM, instead they would just show up when you went searching for an seo firm.
Yesterday and today I received emails from this "National Positions" company in California claiming to offer their seo services to help me rank better. The funny thing is that they send you a message with the subject line of "suggestion re: domain.com/contact" or some other form. As if anyone cares if their contact form is ranked!
All of these messages also came from random gmail accounts with strings of numbers in them, clearly some kind of spam operation that is pretty automated. Why they waste their time and more importantly why anyone calls them is beyond me.
So am I the only one getting these messages?
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Yesterday and today I received emails from this "National Positions" company in California claiming to offer their seo services to help me rank better. The funny thing is that they send you a message with the subject line of "suggestion re: domain.com/contact" or some other form. As if anyone cares if their contact form is ranked!
All of these messages also came from random gmail accounts with strings of numbers in them, clearly some kind of spam operation that is pretty automated. Why they waste their time and more importantly why anyone calls them is beyond me.
So am I the only one getting these messages?
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Yicrosoft Directory What?
Yicrosoft Directory is the contest term for an seo contest sponsored by SEoNoob. We decided to enter our site http://www.yicrosoft-directory.biz/ just to see what happens with it. So far over night the number of results for this term have gone from 10 to 420 in Google. Should be an interesting contest!
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Sunday, February 03, 2008
Why GM's OnStar Service Sucks
I just bought a vehicle with GM's OnStar System installed and it came with a 1 year subscription. I've had some privacy concerns in the past about Onstar however, I spend a lot of time in the middle of nowhere - so I thought it would be nice.
I called and setup Onstar on Friday and yesterday they sent me an email with my car information including the mileage, tire pressure, etc about my vehicle. I went to the website to login and it said that it couldn't find my account number.
So I did what it said - called OnStar Service and Support. I was directed to someone and after a 10 minute phone call it was determined that I could not login to my account because it was too new. The Onstar Rep told me that it can take 3 weeks to get my online account setup.
They said that because OnStar works with a third party vendor for the OnStar website, it can take three weeks for the account to get setup. I have no idea why this is going to take three weeks to create a login unless they are sending the information via smoke signals.
We build websites all the time that have databases that need to be sync'd up and it doesn't take three weeks like OnStar does. Instead its done either instantly or nightly.
After questioning the OnStar Rep as to why it was going to take three weeks for them to create my account, I got nothing other than the standard response of that is what the third party said it would take.
As to why OnStar can send me an insane amount of information about my car - including my car's phone number - it can't create a login for a website in less than three weeks. This is why OnStar went from being really cool to really bad.
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I called and setup Onstar on Friday and yesterday they sent me an email with my car information including the mileage, tire pressure, etc about my vehicle. I went to the website to login and it said that it couldn't find my account number.
So I did what it said - called OnStar Service and Support. I was directed to someone and after a 10 minute phone call it was determined that I could not login to my account because it was too new. The Onstar Rep told me that it can take 3 weeks to get my online account setup.
They said that because OnStar works with a third party vendor for the OnStar website, it can take three weeks for the account to get setup. I have no idea why this is going to take three weeks to create a login unless they are sending the information via smoke signals.
We build websites all the time that have databases that need to be sync'd up and it doesn't take three weeks like OnStar does. Instead its done either instantly or nightly.
After questioning the OnStar Rep as to why it was going to take three weeks for them to create my account, I got nothing other than the standard response of that is what the third party said it would take.
As to why OnStar can send me an insane amount of information about my car - including my car's phone number - it can't create a login for a website in less than three weeks. This is why OnStar went from being really cool to really bad.
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Friday, February 01, 2008
Microsoft to buy yahoo talk
Microsoft to buy yahoo talk about a possible google killer. If privacy experts are concerned about google they should be really worried about it
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I never thought i would be happy to swap an audi for a chevy. But i am thrilled about it and wish i did it sooner.
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
Do you run an article submission service or software? If so please email me. http://www.articlesnatch.com/ is looking for more articles
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Saturday, January 26, 2008
Just read the 4 hour work week. It was great. Everyone should read it to learn how to free up hours of their week.
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Sunday, January 20, 2008
Reading the 4 hour work week while waiting in the waiting room and im shocked at how much i like it. You should read it.
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Friday, January 18, 2008
http://www.articlesnatch.comis/ going to undergo some maintainance tonight. I hope it goes smoothly. Adding some new indexes.
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Saturday, January 12, 2008
American Tie - American Pie Parody
Absolutely Hillarious!
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yay for a new cell phone
Just got a new motorola razor2. Looks like the camera is much nicer than my old phone. Have a great weekend
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Friday, January 11, 2008
Taco bells taco salad is really nachos. What a
So apparently taco salad is now a tiny bag of nacho chips and a tiny portion of beans and lettuce. What a rip off for 4.50.
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Thursday, January 10, 2008
Mosso - All PHP sites down again
I have most of my sites hosted with mosso - and things are always great or terrible. Right now I found out that they fall into that terrible category. As in all PHP 4 and 5 sites are down.... not slow... but down - 404 error page not found down.
I have had this problem several times with Mosso over the 8 months that I have had hosting with them - however I'm not quite sure what else to do - as the site would likely need more than a dedicated server to run.
So if you have mosso - make sure you send them an email with your downtime documentation and request the credit to your account - 1 day free for every 1 hour of downtime.
I even called the tech support line and the guy had the nerve to tell me that I could check the status page.
Its funny that right now my sites are down - mosso.com is up...
This may seem kind of ranting - but I just want to make sure anyone who is thinking of using mosso - realizes that it can be an up and down ride.
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I have had this problem several times with Mosso over the 8 months that I have had hosting with them - however I'm not quite sure what else to do - as the site would likely need more than a dedicated server to run.
So if you have mosso - make sure you send them an email with your downtime documentation and request the credit to your account - 1 day free for every 1 hour of downtime.
I even called the tech support line and the guy had the nerve to tell me that I could check the status page.
Its funny that right now my sites are down - mosso.com is up...
This may seem kind of ranting - but I just want to make sure anyone who is thinking of using mosso - realizes that it can be an up and down ride.
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Redesigning articlesnatch article directory
I am in the process of having a new design done for http://www.articlesnatch.com/ if you have suggestions please let me know. Thanks!
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Monday, January 07, 2008
Chatting with Mike
I'm talking to Mike Alves of Canandaigua Real Estate - http://www.canandaiguarealtors.com/ - He did a nice job on putting together his site. I have to show him a few more wordpress things, then he can convert it over to a blog.
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Chatting with Mike
I'm talking to Mike Alves of Canandaigua Real Estate - http://www.canandaiguarealtors.com/ - He did a nice job on putting together his site. I have to show him a few more wordpress things, then he can convert it over to a blog.
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Saturday, January 05, 2008
merry christmas decorations!
So maybe the combo of 75% off, a gift card, and a wedding to decorate is a bad idea.
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Having spent the last few days looking at wedding reception sites i cant believe how much they go for. Not to mention 20% gratuity. Wow.
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