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The trip up there was great. We made good time. About 15 mins from AC
we decided to stop in the rest stop, fuel up and stretch (We thought we
actually had like an hour to go). We pulled out from the stop and heard
a clunk. I thought it was just a rock or somethin’ on the road, but
aparently it was a piece of my car! The power steering went out and the
car stalled. I restarted it, but the car was overheating. We pulled
over and let the car cool down, but as soon as we took off it heated
right up. I didn’t have more than a few seconds before it was
overheating again.

Vince and Josh in front of my overheating car
What am I going to do now?

We got the car to a Sonoco station and found the accessory bely had
fallen completely off. That explained why I had no power steering and
why the car was overheating! We called for a tow-truck which
conveniently took 2 hours to get there. Even worse, Sunoco ran out of
hot-chocolate!!!

It all stared with me heading out to get Tires for the trip. I went to the local Tire distributor and after 2 phone calls over 2 days confirming they had my tires in stock, told me it would take about 4 hours to complete. I was running an hour late and wanted to be on my way to AC at this point. I wound up leaving there and calling House of Tires in Levittown, NY. They had me in and out in under an hour and replaced both tires. They also have a good reputation in the area, so I may use them as a mechanic. In fact, one of the guys who used to work for my mechanic is there now. I left there, hit the car wash which was right next door, and took off..On to JaypoCON 2005!

Just got back from Atlantic City. It was my annual birthday cellebration (Damn, I’m 28 now…lol) and it was a LOT of fun (as usual!). Many of my good friends were there. It was a blast despite some of the downfalls of the trip….

I’ll tell you more when i’m not so fucking tired, but to give you a preview, I’m down about $300, I nearly lost the car, and there’s wonderful new Vince Stories. All this to come. Check My LJ over the next few days!

Thanks all who came (or whatever your reaction was!)

I’m curious why people seem to enjoy griping about big companies. I currently work for a large corporation that provides RESIDENTIAL Internet access to people in a major area. Having been a customer of this company for years and now being an employee of the company I have come to realize that they are extremely fair in their practices and policies, yet I constantly hear people gripe about how Horrible or how Expensive they are when in fact, if you look at the alternatives they’re very fair and reasonable.

In fact, surveys comparing our service to similar services in other areas show that we are among the best as far as product, service and pricing. which makes me wonder… Why do people have this need to gripe?
I saw a post commenting on the company I work for and it’s prompted THIS post:
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They bitch that they can’t send out 400,000 emails in an afternoon… NO SHIT! If I had my own service (and technically I do) I wouldn’t allow it either! If you want to spam, buy yourself some dedicated bandwidth, your own IP and spam away. It’ll only be minutes until you’re blocked and then you’re fucked! OH RIGHT! Then you can’y blame anybody else!

If you’re not getting enough bandwidth? GO OUT AND BUY MORE! There’s plenty of companies that will sell you more bandwidth. In fact, I just found a company that will give you the same amount of bandwidth as my company. With NO limits, No restrictions, No blocking implemented unless YOU want it. AND it’s only $6,106 per month! WHAT A DEAL!

They bitch because we don’t take certain security precautions. THEN they bitch when we finally take those precautions.

I can easily recommend poorer service for over 10 times the cost if you really want an alternative, and you can even customize it to suit whatever warez hogging, spam sending, file sharing, porn ripping desires you may have.

The moral of this post is: You get what you pay for.

If you don’t like the service you’re getting, then you have the right to search for the alternatives. And when you find you sacrifice service for lower costs, don’t bitch that we’re the bad guys. Bitch that you’re expectations or needs are above where your wallet is.

Rant over

I just went to install the Yahoo! messenger and was VERY disturbed by what I saw.

As I work for an ISP, I get calls all day long from people having trouble with software they didn’t even know they installed, and the Yahoo! messenger installation explains a lot of it. First of all, Yahoo! messenger is extremely easy to install. It’s a NEXT NEXT NEXT NEXT N….. operation…. Now, the Installed gives you 2 options (which if you just hit NEXT you miss)…

Typical Installation which installs the Yahoo! Messenger, The Yahoo Toolbar (with pop-up blocker..screws up many web based email and online application services), Yahoo! Extras (Bullshit you dont need but it makes changes to your browsers, and causes general havok on your system.)….or Custom Installation which says “Advanced Users” next to it… now while easy enough, the average user will see “ADVANCED” and decide it’s too complicated for them.

Then below that is an option, pre-selected, Make Yahoo! my default search engine. Of course, I’m a Google fan, so I unchecked this box immediately! WHAT THE FUCK! Nothing Happened! There’s an UNCHECKABLE checkbox.. Those bastards. If people don’t know how to fix this later, they’re STUCK with Yahoo! as their search engine.

Fortunately if you do go into the custom options, you can change this (and any other) settings, but you really shouldn’t have to!

I probably should, but I don’t have the patience to read their TOS. They probably own my soul and my first born. Who knows…

(Side note, it’s time for LiveJournal to add “Google” to it’s spellcheck dictionary!)