Archive for the ‘rants’ Category
.71 cents
Posted by mep | Filed under rants
I have the new ATT for phone and DSL. They charge my credit card monthly automagically. This week I got my bill and noticed a 71 cents charge for not paying my bill on time. Nice trick. Get the IT guys to delay the auto-charging routine and rack up late fees.
New AT&T, same old games [...]
power bill just arrived…
Posted by mep | Filed under rants
Because of the heat wave, i was unsure what to expect when I opened my SDG&E bill
27% increase in power usage over the previous month. 20% increase on the bottom line.
I think it helped that I bailed to Vegas in the middle of the worst of the heat – and my central air conditioner was [...]
pay a new $5 fee per month unless you upgrade
Posted by mep | Filed under rants
One has to love the balls on some of the cellular companies. Cingular has decided to add a new $5 per month fee if you have one of their older model phones. According to the article, they will generate 23.5 million a month with the new charge. So if you have the older phones and [...]
Netflix delays
Posted by mep | Filed under rants
I assume I’m one of the lucky folks in the Netflix slowdown queue. Movie showed up and watched on Wednesday, dropped of at the Post Office on Thursday – I just to the ‘received’ email today (Monday). I’ll get the next movie on Wednesday. That’s a week turnaround. No matter what I do, I can’t [...]
Mexican TV for World Cup
Posted by mep | Filed under rants, sports
Feel free to add this one to the not so obvious reasons to live in San Diego:
For big sporting events, one generally has the option of catching the TV feed from Mexico. I clearly don’t understand what they are saying, but when it comes to World Cup TV, they make more sense to me than [...]
acceptable use policy violation?
Posted by mep | Filed under rants
I just got this from PayPal today:
We require additional information about your account for the following reason(s):
Jun. 26, 2006: We have recently reviewed your account and have noticed that you are selling items on your website that violate our Acceptable Use Policy. We value you as a member of our community and wish to continue [...]
it’s been a long few days
Posted by mep | Filed under rants, tech
Without much planning, I made a switch from a server located in my house, via a dsl connection, to a hosted machine. The lack of planning was due to the local phone company screwing up, then the dsl company screwing up. So what’s a boy to do? backup the box, transfer it [...]
San Diego Poker IS an oxymoron
Posted by mep | Filed under poker, rants
I called Oceans11 in Oceanside to get the details of their Super Satellite tournament to the WSOP this Saturday 4/22/2006.
Here is the skinny, 2500 in starting chips, 15 minute rounds starting with blinds of 25/50. That a starting M of 33, in 15 minutes that M is 16, and in another 15 minutes it’s 8 [...]
mattress sizes
Posted by mep | Filed under rants
well, for the 2nd time in 3 years, I purchased the wrong size mattress sheets.
I know I should have measured before ordering some sheets. I have a Full, cause a Queen would be larger.
Faulty logic. a Queen is 60X80. Ugh – back to the store I go.
The Government requires a tag to go on all [...]