Category: Rant
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I Just Wanna Watch TV (part 24)
As you’ve probably guessed by now, nobody called me back after that last check in. So, I figured it was time to try to talk to someone in person. Last night, I checked in with my local Best Buy (the actual location where I purchased the TV.) I explained the situation… His first reply was…
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I Just Wanna Watch TV (part 23)
Last time I talked to Best Buy Service, they said some one will call me back in 5-7 business days. I wasn’t all that surprised that after 7 days elapsing, that I still didn’t hear anything from them. So, I figured it was time to check in again. Dialed ’em up, waited five minutes for…
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I Just Wanna Watch TV (part 22)
This time its not Time Warner, I promise… Recently my Sony TV (32″ HD) cashed itself in. When you hit the power button, all you get is a blinking red light. What does the manual say about this condition? If when you power on the TV, have no picture, and the status light blinks red……
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Bit Torrent and Road Runner
Recently, I noticed that my Time Warner Road Runner connection hangs whenever I use Bit Torrent. Its perfectly fine for a hours, then everything hangs. Lights on the modem and router blink away but no progress on downloads and everything else (web, mail, etc) stops working. I can usually get things back in order by…
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Freaking Scumbags!
Had pair of emails from Dreamhost telling me that they turned off my email sending capability because I exceeded their throttle of 200 emails in an hour. Hmm, that’s strange. I don’t send any email via my hosting account. Some pawing through the logs leads me to believe that some dirtbag has found an exploit…
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Tom Petty: The Highway Companions Club
Tom Petty is doing a fan club type thing called The Highway Companions Club. Sounds very similar to Dave Matthews Band’s Warehouse. Supposedly gets you better seats, but no guarantees; probably extra true since they’re teamed up directly with TicketBastard for a promotion. I think I’ll keep that $30, thank you very much. While checking…
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I just wanna watch TV… Part II
So in the last installment, I was left with a HD cable converter, and a charge to keep calling Time Warner Cable to inquire if they had any HD DVR boxes available. So, Thursday I give them a call. I give them all the background and they put me on hold trying to figure out…
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I just wanna watch TV…
Last week, Sandy and I were watching a DVR’d show. Suddenly, the playback started to skip (kinda like a scratched DVD), and then we hear the awful sounds of hard drive preparing to eat itself. But then, it went away and all was right in the world again. Then Saturday morning, I fire up the…
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Driving Me Nuts!
I use the old bcc: myself trick by habit on all outgoing messages (as I prefer to file my outgoing messages with incoming messages for filing purposes). yahoomail for some reason thinks I’m a spammer and puts messages to myself into the bulk email (aka spam) folder. lovely. I’ve dug them out twice before and…
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photostamps? bah!
grrr. I was expecting some cool photostamps for my wedding thank-you’s in the mail today. When they didn’t arrive I decided to check my order status. Hmm, Order Cancelled, Uploaded Content Rejected! What the? How could a picture of Sandy and me (in our wedding finery, none-the-less) be objectionable? Turns out the fine folks at…