Another photo sharing site. The more free backups of my photo library out there, the better I always say.
UPDATE: After uploading the pics, going thru all the options for sharing settings, I hit the save button, and it deleted all the photos. I would NOT trust installing their software or active-X control on a machine with access to important data. Be WARY.
I hate it when people have a very specific request for you, but because they are embarrased at how lazy the request makes them seem, they waste 20 minutes of your life trying to pre-justify. As if they’d be asking for my help, if I was stupid enough to buy the excuse. I knew you wanted to laze your way out of the task the moment you came to me. Stop wasting both our times, just ask for the help up front and get out of my hair so I can get it done.
Why do successful companies insist on destroying the products that made them great? VMWare Server 1 was wonderful software. It wasn’t perfect, but it was perfectly usable. VMWare Server 2 traded in the nice and snappy Win32 for a craptastic web-ui, and doesn’t even bother to install the required plug-ins when it installs the server. The whole product seems like it was designed by a 5th grade slashdot disciple. It’s all about web2.0 flashiness, and completely misses the point of being something someone would want to use.
I’m kicking myself for not keeping a copy of the last 1.x update. Hopefully I can find one out there somewhere.
I want to give people the benefit of the doubt. When I went to Jillians some months ago, and ordered the special “Italian Sausage and Chicken pasta”, and it came back with a hot dog instead of the itallian sausage, I was peeved, let my server know, and took a 6 month break from stopping by.
I’m on my way back from REI, and I want to get something to eat that isn’t boring me to tears, so I decide I’ll give them another shot. Totally stupid idea on my part. Jillians sucks ass these days. Despite the fact that the place is mostly dead, it takes over 30 minutes to get me my food, and when it comes, they’ve pulled the same stupid stunt, using a hot dog instead of the sausage. I mention how peeved I am at this turn of events, and the staff, while trying to be helpful, wasted another 15 minutes trying to figure out how to give me a refund.
I suspect it will be a much longer time before I give them another chance, if ever. I would strongly discourage you from going to any Jillians or Dave & Buster’s location, at least if you want food. If you’re just going to drink and play games, they probably can’t screw that up too much.
Oh, and how pathetic is it that they don’t have a email address on their contact page?
They claim to have a lot of info available if you sign up, but turns out they don’t actually have the info they claimed. Unsubscribe email address listed in their signup process isn’t even a valid email address. One can only assume that even if you did manage to get thru to them, they wouldn’t bother doing the job of unsubscribing you any better than they did at putting together a list of contact info.
UPDATE: As you can see below, the founder of Lead411 has commented with a certain level of explanation that certianly mollifies my inability-to-unsubscribe-related angst. I don’t remember the exact info I used to sign-up, to validate his comment about temporary restrictions on “fishy” accounts. Given that my corporate charter lapsed years ago, I could buy that as being marked “fishy”.
UPDATE2: I had further off-line discussion with Tom, and feel that his explanation for my trial-signup’s limitations was reasonable. More impressively, he immediately added a proper “abuse@” address to their mail system based on my suggestion.
Sound Speed Scooters didn’t call me yesterday eve like they said they would. I took that as a pretty bad sign.
I just got off the phone with the scooter-mechanic, who claims that they think they have the problem solved now, that it was a bad controller / lithium communication channel. He says they replaced the controller, and drove the scooter thru a full charge yesterday, without any issues. They are going to do another full run again today, and hopefully have my bike ready tonight.
Because they’re going out of town for the weekend, so if it’s not tonight, it’s next week (he said monday, but they aren’t usually open on mondays, so…?). Yeah, go take off for a weekend, leave me stuck, again, while we finally get some sunny weather.
schmucks.
The scooter manufacturer’s rep is supposed to be back down at Sound Speed today, since they couldn’t repro the problem for him on tuesday. I wish I could hold out a hope that I’d have a working scooter by the weekend, but I so doubt that the problem is going to be as easy to fix as they think.
It must be a pretty small department, without any accountability. How else can you explain the crapulent nature of the latest iTunes release? Attempting to select 60 tracks fails silently. It seems the most you can select at one time is somewhere around 10-20. And then when you hit delete to remove them, up pops a dialogue box that sometimes has a checkbox for “don’t ask me again”, and sometimes it doesn’t have that checkbox. It doesn’t really matter, since it still asks you every time.
Sound Speed Scooters is starting to really tick me off. I spent some serious cash on a new scooter, and when I go to pick it up, it makes it 10 feet and dies. I have to leave it with them and walk back to work, then leave work again to come pick it up when they fix it. Today, I’m riding it to the store to pick up a chain to lock it with at work, and it dies again. This time, I’m way more than 10ft from their shop, and had to get it towed to them. They assure me that they will take a look at let me know what’s wrong, right away. I walk back to work, AGAIN. Their store hours are supposed to be 11am to 6pm, so when I call them at 5pm, and it goes straight to voicemail; I’m pretty pissed. I drive over, and they tell me they need till at least tuesday to figure out what’s wrong. ARGH!
Update: The sales/fixit guy calls today. He doesn’t have my bike fixed, but he thinks he knows the source of the problem. Sub-standard fuses “inside the batteries”. They need a couple of days to decide what to replace them with, and then I will be “good to go”.
<Samuel L Voice>I am trying real hard to believe</SLV>
Is Alicia Neuschwanger a coward, a bigot, the kind of slime you usually find at the bottom of a septic tank? She has plenty of company, wherever slime like her hang out, what with her buddy, Ada County MADD director, Miren Aburusa and her getting national news coverage for their small mindedness. Alicia at least has the excuse that she’s just working at the fair. Miren has no excuse. She works for MADD and is supposed to be trying to raise awareness of the dangers of drunk driving, not hiding them because they aren’t pretty enough. It seems she’s probably more interested in raising money, than awareness. I suspect because you can’t embezzle awareness. If I worked for MADD national, I’d certainly be ordering a very detailed audit of anything ms Aburusa has ever touched. That kind of slime is usually contagious.