Ok, I think this is gonna be short, because frankly, I’m sick of talking about it already. MS Windows 7 RC1 told me a few days ago that I had 12 days before it would start rebooting by itself. Well, only a day or two later, it said, “You have 2 days left,…” WHAT?!?! TWO days??! So it went from being nice and giving me a decent amount of time, to only 2 days which is entirely unacceptable! I have hundreds if not THOUSANDS of apps and tweaks and various things I have installed. There’s no way I could get this ready in that amount of time even if I didn’t already have a million o
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
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CenturySmell vs CenturyStink!
Saturday, February 27th, 2010********************************************
EDIT 3-29-2010: The following is a former
expression of how I felt about CenturyLink.
Since the time of writing, CenturyLink got on
the ball and fixed the problem and made it right.
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Well, I told somebody about my gripes and rantings on my blog here, and I just realized they would have to dig through to find them because all of my more recent blogs were actually trying to be rather up beat.
So I present to you, … another rant about CenturyLink (yes, they changed their name). I had my pet(or pet-peeved) name for CenturyTel, it was CenturySmell. Then they recently changed it to CenturyLink, which I of course call CenturyStink.
Am I serious about my disdain for this company? Oh you bet I am. The company royally screwed over my parents. They took something like 6 months before they FINALLY ported his business phone numbers out to our new phone service. In the process they cost him hundreds or maybe thousands of dollars.
I have my own complaints about the company too. They have their own stupid mini-contracts that they never tell you about. I got DSL internet a few years ago on my own phone line, then when I moved, I couldn’t just switch the service to my new location, they had to charge me a cancellation fee…which I couldn’t pay, and I didn’t need the internet at the new place anyway, so I was really wanting to just drop them, but nooooo, they had to tell me I was under a contract and had to pay an early termination fee to cancel it early. Eventually I got the family there to take over the service, so I got out of it. Still, they have no right to act like a freaking cell phone company.
On the list of other dings on CenturyStink’s record, are CRAPPY internet, TERRIBLE customer service, and non-existant repair. They sell us an internet speed of 10megabits/second, and they don’t even bother to pro-rate it when their stupid techs bump it all the way down to 3.5mbit/sec so they can supposedly “fix the disconnects”. They didn’t FIX it… they made it WORSE. It disconnects nearly 30 times a day, or else at least acts completely retarded 30 times or more a day. They always say we’re the only ones having this problem, and that it is probably because we’re so far out from their office, which is …what,…a MILE exactly maybe? Golly… if they can’t make 3.5 megabit/sec work without problems just 1 mile away, I wonder what it’s like right in their office…probably 40% uptime!
I know we’re not the only ones with crappy DSL service from them. They also refuse to come out and look at the situation anymore. They figure they replace the modem (which doesn’t fix anything). They come in and make sure that the “Auto-Reconnect” feature is turned on, and that’s it…. now they don’t even come out.
Tell me CenturyStink… if we’re the only ones with this problem, then you obviously have the time to come and look at our issue and fix it right? Except they don’t know HOW to fix it, because they’re not as bright as they claim to be. I hate living out here where there’s no quality options for things like internet. I’m going to move elsewhere as soon as I can!
Mouseless and loving it!
Thursday, June 4th, 2009I’m pretty proud of myself! I found a mouse-replacement application that uses the keyboard. It’s similar to Microsoft’s own accessibility application “Mouse Keys” which is built into windows. I hated how this application was completely cumbersome and hardly customizable.
When I found that there was a script included within the AUTOHOTKEY help files that did the very same thing only better..I instantly loved it! I can now customize any part of it even, since it’s an AUTOHOTKEY script. I’m remapping the keys so that I use the Caps Lock key instead of the Scroll Lock to activate the mouse keys. Also to use the right hand of the “home row” as the basis of my mouse keys. Now I can stay at the home row and still be productive in the GUI portion of Windows.
WOOT.
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Going to update blog to WordPress 2.7.1
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009Well, it’s just a simple plain blog, so I think I’ll upgrade it to the latest version of wordpress. I’ve been wanting to see the new wordpress in action anyway. It might break some things though, so I’ll have to see what happens. I kind of don’t care anymore anyway. My blogs suck, and I’m pretty sure nobody REAL actually reads them.
So if it breaks…I’ll just say goodbye to a blog and start something new. Here goes..
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Frustrated, maybe bewildered, definitely unsure.
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008Well, in these maddening times we live in, we all have something to gripe about. I think I’m not the only one who shares in the feelings described in the title of this post. I have to say, that times were really pretty decent this summer, all the way up until about 2 weeks ago. I don’t have a clue what’s going on now.
I mean, geeze, for once i finally had a niche… work that paid me $50/hour for my technical services, and could finally get a fair amount of hours during the week. Then BAM! Hit like a ton of bricks, it dwindled down to only a couple of lonely hours a week if that. I was making plans to get Dell certified in every certification there is. Making plans to start training other techs. This has got to be a shift to something much better….. because if it’s not, then I think I’m gonna be upset that all my efforts are not getting me anywhere.
Do we all need to band together in order to make it? Do we need each other? Could it be, that without being around one another, our dreams have no real chance? That our lives aren’t enriched or our skills and senses sharpened? Maybe that’s just an illusion and grasping for some kind of solution that isn’t there, or perhaps that’s just it. Maybe the answer is this thing that we practically loathe because we like our privacy, and live on competition breathing through our lungs, and get irritated with others that we get familiar with.
I don’t know how I could have made it these last months during the past year or so without my family. I very much have felt frustrated and hurt and angry with all of them over the course of it all, but if I had abandoned them to escape to my own devices, I would probably be much much worse for it. They’ve grown sharper and more tolerable, and I’ve also grown sharper by their input and care. I’m sure we’re all better now that this has happened.
Maybe what this shows us, is that adversity is a necessary ingredient to character development, but not only enhances our own character, but those who bring the adversity as well. I suppose we could be reflecting back a bit of adversity to them when they bring it, so there they have some for themselves.
It’s often we find that by our own observation, they (people) are not and cannot be growing in any way but for the negative and worse. Take heart; first the thorny prickles grow…. then the rose bud!