Thursday, March 31, 2005
I just returned from a trip to Atlanta, I was visiting for Easter. This trip had originally been planned for Christmas but had to be changed. Delta Airlines, at the time, wanted to charge me $100.00 per ticket (I had 3) to change the flights. $300!!!! Are you kidding me, who makes $300 for 10 minutes worth of work? I ended up not changing the flights at Christmas and waited until we confirmed plans. I am glad I waited because they dropped the change fee to $50.00 per ticket. Now on to my issue.
I was supposed to fly out of Manchester, NH. The flight was cancelled for “mechanical reasons” and no other flights were going to Atlanta that day from Manchester so they switched us to a flight out of Logan. So my question is why don’t I get $50.00 per ticket for them changing the flight on me?
Everyone has these polices. If you don’t call your doctor, dentist, or the guy who cuts your hair within a certain period they charge you a fee. When they cancel on you what do you get? Inconvenience, an incurable itch, dirty teeth and long hair.
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Monday, March 28, 2005
I had been checking out different hosting companies because I needed to use Apache for a project. I gave Dreamhost a try for about 3 hours and then cancelled. The control panel was painfully slow and not user friendly. I didn’t get a chance to actually use them to test the site because I ended the relationship there.
I then gave 2MHost a shot. They looked alright and were cheap enough to play with.
Day 1:
They had me set up quickly with a dedicated IP. I uploaded my scripts and tried to connect to the database. First issue was needing to know the IP to mySQL. I asked support and the answer was, “localhost”. Hmmm. That just isn’t going to work from my machine. So after some back and forth on live support I gave up. I finally figured it out myself after about an hour.
Day 2:
I was supposed to be on a PHP 5 server, I check the server and see I am on PHP 4. Shortly after asking about it the server was down. After several hours of down time it was back up with PHP5 installed. I guess they only install it when you notice. Later that day they were down again.
Several days go by and my testing is alright, decent server response etc. Haven?t had much time to work on things or check on the server.
Day 11:
8am I check the site and its down. I ask about it and am told they are rebooting. Okay, that takes 5 minutes. 4 hours later still down, I asked and am told they are working with the Data Center on it and they would get back to me. 12 hours later and still down, asked about it and have not heard back. Final question is about a refund.
In 11 days I have been down 3 times that I have noticed. So much for 99.9% up time. The search will continue.
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Monday, March 21, 2005
Seth?s entry on parsley is important. I can?t articulate my reasons for knowing it?s important, but it is.
If I hadn?t spent the last 3-4 weeks of my life debugging and fixing off shore code I think I might be able to write something intelligent. Oh well.
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Thursday, March 17, 2005
No, Bono didn’t die. Listening to radio in Boston today you would have thought so. Usually when every radio station plays an artist all morning it means they died. However not in this case. It is St. Patrick?s Day and that means every lame disc jockey has to tie into the Irish some how. U2 is the only Irish Band that can cross most station formats and be known.
I dig St. Patrick?s Day, especially in Boston and I dig U2—but come on people, lets come up with something a little better.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day.
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Saturday, March 12, 2005
I use the printer at work maybe once a week or less. No matter when I print something and go to retrieve it there is no paper in the tray. Of course there is no paper nearby and I have to open a new box, cut the strapping thing off, open the paper and load it. The printer will think about it for a short time and I will push any button I can find to hurry it along. Finally, after 5 minutes of preparation my 1 page document is about to come out. WRONG! I have to wait for a 10, 20, 50 page color document to print.
1. When you print something go get it. I am betting if you were printing your resume at 7:45 in the morning you would be standing at the printer pacing.
2. When you get to the printer and see half your document is printed and you need to add paper, add more than the 10 sheets to finish printing your document. Open up the paper, load it and don?t steel sheets from the fax machine. That sales agreement being faxed over is more important than the 5 articles you printed from ESPN.com, which by the way are going to end up on the floor of the bathroom stall. (Although I would probably find the sports news more important, for the purpose of this rant we will go with the sales agreement taking precedent.)
3. When you see you the ink is running out don?t be afraid to shake the toner or actually REPLACE the toner. Your hands won?t get dirty; this isn?t a typewriter with ribbon.
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