wow, the last three days have been a hell of stomach virus and vomitting....
I am finally keeping food down... hope that i will feel well enough to get on with the long list of things i have to do very soon.
talk at you all very soon :0
The Reverend Purrv23
::::: Creo Ergo Sum :::::
I Make, Therefore I Am.
I am a little in awe.
Mark Casem from Comcast's National Customer Operations commented on my previous post. "I hate comcast" You have to be impressed with a company that is employing people to specifically search for these kind of statements and blog posts on the web and offer to help fix the problem. (thats the only scenario i can figure out as I know mark is not a regular reader of my blog...)
So i sent him the phone number associated with my account and lo and behold someone from the executive escalations dept at comcast contacted me this evening and helped me to figure out all of my options. (thank you Mark!)
Unfortunately I still dont think that I can either afford or need all of the services that I have had with them. So first thing tomorrow i am going to see if i can get wimax ad if it is a viable option, then I am going to call the executive escalations rep back and either strip the account down to just internet or cancel it altogether.
But the customer service that this whole experience implies is pretty amazing, and I have to admit that I am impressed. At the very least I guess comcast is aware of their public image and the state of things and is very dedicated to making some changes. the Wired article must have really lit a fire under the corporate staff. I will have to reserve my judgement before I label them as "evil" or state that I "HATE" them.
i am curious what the future of WiMax turns out to be. we will see!
The Reverend Purrv23
::::: Creo Ergo Sum :::::
I Make, Therefore I Am.
There was a great article in the February issue of Wired magazine about Comcast called "The Dark Lord of Broadband" by Daniel Roth one of the Senior writers for Wired.
I suggest you find a copy and read it if you can, its a real eye opener about the monopoly that Comcast has on america's internet access. I also read that according to a recent harris interactive survey that out of 60 companies, only 4 had a worse reputation than Comcast.
I have decided that i cant really afford to keep paying comcast what they are charging for internet and cable television. With the way the internet is these days, i can get all of my media entertainment online or with dvd rentals either netflix or hollywood video, or even RedBox (gotta love $1.00 movies from a vending machine) and now that Clear Wimax has moved into portland, I think it is my duty to stop supportng a company that has such awful business practices.
Really, Comcast sucks and they are expensive, go read the article if you have not dealt with them yourself. The problem is that WiMax is a new technology, and although i like what i am seeing so far, it is going to be a while before it proves itself. does anyone else have an opinion on this? read anything about Wimax that I should know about?
Qwest is just as expensive and i really dislike DSL. so Clear WiMax it is and until then i will just have to limp along borrowing my wonderful neighbors wireless, and the free wireless that is in our building. ( the free wireless could not have found a worse company as far as I am concerned, thats what happens when you purchase wi-fi by the lowest bid, but that is a story for a whole different entry)
until next time!
The Reverend Purrv23
::::: Creo Ergo Sum :::::
I Make, Therefore I Am.
I usually hate the spam about get a free laptop for filling out these offers frm our partner websites crap, but a friend of mine, nathan decided to try to see if he could actually get some of that free stuff and what it actually took... he is blogging about it over at http://freestuffy.wordpress.com so i decided to try it to and add to his endeavors.
click on this link http://www.rocketbills.com/?referral=12802 and join and complete the requirements for joining and I will get some cash and then maybe you too can get some cash in your paypal account. just make sure and cancel the free offers efore they start charging you! i have heard it does work if you keep up with canceling the offers and actually take the tme to keep track of what you signed up for, when you have to cancel and make sure you follow through. so i am gonna try it. wanna join me in the experiment? got any insight? leave me a comment and tell me what you think...
The Reverend Purrv23
::::: Creo Ergo Sum :::::
I Make, Therefore I Am.
just finished watching the inauguration day festivities on facebook/cnn and I have to say i am so glad to be living in this day and age! It is an amazing time to be able to have access to the technology to be able to watch all of that live streaming on the internet and share it with your friends all over the country.
for the first time i am happy and proud to be american, and excited for the future. now we will see what the next year will bring.
we can do it! it is time for real change!
The Reverend Purrv23
::::: Creo Ergo Sum :::::
I Make, Therefore I Am.
Well, I had to post these here for a start and then see if I could get them to someone at the Portland Mercury who would appreciate the irony...
There has been a whole rash of problems with the TriMet ticket machines in the last year and as a frequent trimet rider I was highly amused when my girlfriend brought the crashed ticket machine to my attention.
It certainly explains a lot. no wonder why TriMet cant seem to get the machines to work properly and seem to be kind of defensive about the issues even.
Maybe if they tried a different operating system they would have less problems. in my experience Macintosh OS X has much less problems with being left running for days at a time. The last time i tried to do that with a windows machine, it just kept crashing.
But that is just another symptom of a broken system. If you try to run an infrastructure on a flawed syistem, its going to keep crashing. I am willing to bet on it.
heh heh
stay tuned for more, its gonna get exciting around here :)
The Reverend Purrv23
::::: Creo Ergo Sum :::::
I Make, Therefore I Am.
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