Milkshakes for...

First day (Monday) was blissful. Yesterday my VM had problem after problem, then my (Mac's) MS RDC locked up cold, etc. etc.
I am surprised I took in ANY useful info or data, but I did. My instructor sounds just like Maximumfun's Jesse Thorn. He could fill-in for Jesse and no one would be the wiser, imo.

The CEO of GoDaddy went on one of those special hunting trips for the super-rich. He then posted a video of him bagging his trophy... an elephant which he then posed in front of with the kind of shit-eating grin only a true bastard could wear.

He has tried to pass this off as a humanitarian act. He's pretending that he did this solely to protect a poor farmer's crops as if he just coincidentally happened to be in the right place at the right time... 8000 miles from home... with elephant hunting gear and a camera crew.

I just finished transferring my domains to a different registrar. I am no longer a GoDaddy customer and I will not purchase any products or services from that company again unless they fire the CEO.

That is shocking.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/godaddy-ceo-shoots-elephant-injures-brand-20110401-1co0o.html

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Anticipating a backlash, GoDaddy competitor NameCheap.com has already swooped in. The company is running a transfer from GoDaddy to Namecheap.com for .com, .net and .org domains for $US4.99 with 20 per cent of the proceeds going to SaveTheElephants.com. For its part, GoDaddy has yet to address the issue on its company blog. Representatives from the company could not be reached for comment.

To further illuminate his bullshit excuse that he was only thinking of the starving people, it has been pointed out that the cost of his hunting trip would have paid for about 70,000 meals for the local people.

Or, I imagine, relocating that elephant to a preserve.

ddt

The truly wealthy are almost a different species. They do not understand how the bulk of humanity perceives them and their actions. Nevertheless, I hope one day to join them.

I've always liked namecheap.

I usually like reading the blog below but today was a bridge too far (it's in defence of Bob Parsons)

http://blogs.smh.com.au/executive-style/allmenareliars/2011/04/08/savethehumans.html

I've made a comment but I doubt it will be approved.

Netflix has no facility for submitting bug reports to the webmaster. A few months ago, I tried uploading an image for my avatar there. It didn't work. At first, I just assumed it was because I was using Chrome but I tried Safari and Firefox and it still didn't work. I thought that maybe it was just a really stupid web developer who only tests their sites in IE so I went to my Windows box and it still didn't work. The only "Contact Us" options that actually let you contact them instead of filling out a form for "I didn't get my disk" or something like that is to call their customer service department. It wasn't important enough to me to sit on hold only to eventually be ignored by a script-reader who wouldn't be able to do anything about the problem anyway.

Today, I decided to try it again thinking that they must have discovered the problem and fixed it by now. Nope. Still broken. I haven't dug into it to see what's happening but there is some client-side JavaScript that is failing. A Google search shows that plenty of other people are having the problem as well.

Hmmm. CNet and ZDNet have been unavailable to me for hours. Don't know if it's their fault or my IT department's.

[EDIT] They work on my iPad, so it looks like either a netquake or my IT folks are overzealous.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/27/2011 09:07AM by John Willoughby.

Really, they maintain separate web identities still? Wotta mess that is behind the scenes (in front of the scenes, too, for all I know).

ddt

They're two relatively strong brands and although I don't read their sites I can remember they recycle quite a lot of content between the two brands.

I still associate ZDNet = "okay" and CNet = "bad"

Both were always the jokes to me.

Skype

For delivering an absolute piece of junk with Skype 5.x for the Mac. Not only that, apparently Mac users with Skype experience are having none of it and have been complaining loudly on forums and Skype's own blog.

That's now been changed, one can no longer see comments (presumably without being logged in). The last entry still showing comments was the initial beta announcement.

http://blogs.skype.com/mac/2010/11/new_skype.html

To be fair to Skype, they did make 2.8 available again; http://www.skype.com/intl/en/get-skype/on-your-computer/macosx/2-8/

Microsoft owns Skype now, don't they?

Yes, but this was before that was all happening.

U-verse. I was supposed to be able to get U-verse in my building. Technician comes and says the wiring isn't good enough, so we can't do that. Fine, I will do DSL (I really hate comcast). Three hours on hold in order to get them to override the U-verse order so I can get plain old DSL. They are calling back tomorrow.

Milkshake for Anonymous hacking TPM.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/talking-points-memo/statement-from-tpm-on-attack-on-tpm-website/10150369645645435

Milkshake for Micro Center.

I usually love that place but I'm really unhappy with them right now.

I went in there on Sunday, August 25th and bought a bunch of stuff. When I got home, I realized that they didn't apply an $80 discount on the motherboard I bought.

On Monday, I went into the store and they happily did a price adjustment resulting in a refund of $85.82.

On Tuesday morning, I checked my bank account and saw that the refund was mistakenly processed as a charge. So now Micro Center owes me $171.64. I went to the store and learned that at least one other customer had the same thing happen to them. The manager took my information and called the home office. A few minutes later, he came back out and apologized repeatedly for the inconvenience and said that the IT department was looking into the problem (and we all know what kind of incompetent buffoons work in the IT departments of retail companies). He also promised to give me an additional $50 credit once it was all resolved.

Wednesday came and went... still no refund.

On Thursday, I went back to the store and was told that they had fixed the problem and that I should see the refund on Friday or by Monday at the latest. He also gave me a $50 gift card at that point so at least Micro Center made good on one promise.

Yesterday afternoon I went back to the store AGAIN. The original manager wasn't around so I talked to a different manager. She took my information and went to look into it again. She came back and said that the refunds were being processed that day and that I should see it by the end of the day. I was told that if I didn't see it by 5:30pm I should call the store. Well, that's pointless. I am happy to deal with Micro Center employees when I'm physically at the store but trying to reach a human being there by phone is nearly impossible.

When I still didn't have my refund at 7pm, I decided to email their customer relations department (I had to get that email address from their Twitter account since I couldn't find any useful contact details on their website).

So far, no reply... and still no refund.

NOT HAPPY.