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Friday, March 9th, 2007 |
A month ago, or so, I wrote about customer service or the lack of.
I also wrote that I switched my ISP to a cable based provider; UPC, as they where friendly and very help full.
Well during my move something went wrong, and my address was not moved (thanks to the local postal service), which have resulted in a few mishaps in the last couple of weeks. Well it has not ended yet, and as I was to find out this evening when I got home from work, it was going to get a lot worse…
This morning (was working from home), I suddenly lost my internet connection, and therefor I call the helpdesk, to ask if they knew about it, and when it would fixed (stay home, or goto the office). The person I talked to listed a wrong address (been there before???), and I was transfered to another person (starting to sound like a nightmare), this very helpfull person then resolutly changed the address, and mentioned “it will take me 3 days to move your equipment”, where as I then mentioned “well it is working”, and she forgot to mention the following: they cut the connection (which it seams that they can do remotely), and then they will have to send a technician, who then will have to do something manually to get the connection established again (I really wonder where the diffrence is).
I went to work, and checked my website (this!), and no connnection, got home from work, and call the nice people people from the helpdesk again, and was told that I could expect to have access to the internet, be able to watch TV, and be able to receive telephone calls within 72 hours of loosing the connection that is on friday (and today is tuesday!!)… I kind of complained abit about that, and told them how I fell about it. It’s like no internet, and no TV, I can live without either but not both…
Well there is one thing I know now, I’ll keep this provider for the 12 months I have to (according to the contract), and then I’ll find another one who do not have anything to do with my TV, that way I’ll have atleast either of them if things go wrong.
And I’ll look into using gmail‘s offer to handle domains, that way I’ll atleast have access to my mail from any internet connection when my connection is down, and I’ll move my website offsite (well that is easier said than done), but I can always try….
Argh!!!!
Oh, you will only read this after I got my connection back, strange world we live in….
technorati tags: ISP, UPC, gmail
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Tuesday, March 6th, 2007 |
‘Blog comments‘ you say, well let me tell you I love them, they are simply adorable, and they make me think that someone out there actually read my blog – the only thing I have an issue with are comments like:
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http://s2.zeroforums.com/index.php?mforum=bestreplicawatch
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Which is not why I allow comments to my small, so if you’re one of the people who send me these offers, please stop as I don’t have any interest in them.
Now I’m on the subject on ‘Blog spam‘ or ‘email spam’, I read somewhere that most of all spam originates from the US, Korea, and China. Now the interesting thing is that one can actually go to jail in the US for sending unsolicited email – maybe they should start building more prisons:-)
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Monday, February 26th, 2007 |
They have found the hottest chili, or what is the hottest chili until the next one is found.
According to this article, it has 357,729 SHU (which is a way they measure heat levels – I think). Well for me chili is chili, and it is normally hot, and very nice….
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Tuesday, February 13th, 2007 |
According to a study conducted in the US, it can save you life if you have a small nap around lunch time (referred to in this articel, by Jyllands Posten, Danish, or here at forskning.no, Norwegian).
Full text, by oxfordjournals.org
Now this is something I could use, I always feel a bit sleepy after lunch, and a small nap could come in very handy.
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Monday, February 12th, 2007 |
I was in the US almost 3 years agoe, just before the US did go into Iraq, and did have some quite intersting discussions. But one thing really did amaze me was the reaction people had to Dixie Chicks and their stand on the Iraq war/invasion, where long term fans had thrown out their CD’s for that simple reason.
My comment to that was something in the lines of; “they are people, and they should be allowed to have their oppinion”, that being the conservative part of the US, and some people being slightly boneheaded…..
Now it turns out that at this years Grammy Awards (2007) they got 5 awards, for new album, etc. it looks like they are back into the world of Country fans… 3 years after people wanted to see them burned.
They (Dixie Chicks) probably still have the same opinion as 3 years ago, but as Bush and Co. are no longer in the driving seat (he still being president, but people have finally found out that he is useless), and some people are starting to see the light (hopefully).
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Monday, February 5th, 2007 |
Actually not you, but me… So what is the worst in the part of moving? I would say the packing thing, I just spend 2 weeks doing DIY (aprox 60L of paint – for aprox 100kvm of house, 37kvm of floor, and the odd things), which is dueable – the great thing is that I’ve lost weight… about 8kg, which is both good and bad – my jeans are too big now (that will change in the future when I put it back on again).
But packing, that is a b…., you find that you have things you thought you got ridge of years back, and you find that the thing you actually thought you had is not there anymore. Make it stop….
I’m still to move, but that is what one pay people to do….
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Sunday, February 4th, 2007 |
I was at this party today where I meet this nice Swedish girl, and we where talking about language. Me being from Denmark, understand some Swedish, but not everything. And it seams that the perception is that all Danes understand Swedish… Well it’s been a well know fact for years that Norwegians and Swedes understand Danish, well that was what I thought until I was told otherwise:-)
Yes it sounds kind of similar, but no the tree nordic countries do have diffrent languages, there are similarities, but still the diffrence is there and it enough to, sometimes, make it impossible to use anything but English.
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