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I was not satisfied with my customer service from Linksys today.
Hi, my name is Nero N(16471). How may I help you?
Lee: Hi I want to use video chat on aim, and I think that my router’s firewall is blocking it
Lee: how do I clear the ports so that I can use video chat?
Nero N(16471): Plese stay on the session I may have to transfer you regarding this concern.
Lee: ok
Nero N(16471): Please wait.
Nero N(16471): Did you puurchase this from a retailer?
Lee: I don’t think that this is pertinant to my situation. I want to look at the configuration utility and open ports so that aol instant messenger can send and receive video chat
Nero N(16471): Yes but Need that information so that i will know where to transfer you.
Lee: is the administrative panel structured differently for different locations or for different retailers?
Nero N(16471): Not but the tech that will support you will depend where the device was purchase.I’m now going to transfer you. Please wait
Lee: Am I going to get better support if I bought this at a particular store?
Lee: which is the correct store to tell you?
Nero N(16471): There are device that came from comcast in which an exclusive dept will hadle the concerns.
Lee: I’ve decided to try to get help somewhere else
Lee: thank you
Lee: disconnected
Nero N(16471): disconnected
Hey everyone:
Check out this page and mess around with it. It might take you 5 minutes to get it going, but it really is kinda cool. The page is a calendar that lets you configure it. It’s the same calendar that I use on weeklyshift.com, and messing around with it will help me out a lot. Use the comments on this blog entry to give me the hyperlink to your calendar after you’re done.
http://software.dragonforce.net/programs/php/DFCalendar/dfconfig.php
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And I’m talking about giving me the hyperlink that looks like this:
< ?php include 'http://software.dragonforce.net/programs/php/DFCalendardfcalendar.php?tcs=5&tbd=44'; ?>
Here are some links to help you understand html colors:
I feel very close to finishing weeklyshift, and I will be presenting it to a store soon after I feel sure that the site is extremely easy to use and bug-free. I also want it to look good, and that is why you guys must help me out with this coloring stuff.
Again, much appreciated.
http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=865
The movie studios received one of their biggest blows today with the news that a high quality copy of the Family Guy movie is spreading rapidly around P2P networks, months before its home theater release.
(thanks John for the article)
You have a knack for making a day good. Dinner was excellent, I hope we win the lottery tickets that you now legally bought, and I can’t wait to see Myst 4.
Out of the 6 RSS feeds I look at, and while looking at the most recent entries’ subjects, there are 3 exclamation points.
Anyway, getting off topic. I’ll be shadowing again even though I didn’t get into Emory, and Miami’s rejection is on the way soon. I think the medical world is really interesting. What other reason would I have for dressing nicely, waking up early, and driving 20 or 30 minutes? I dislike all three of those things. This means that medicine is at least three times more fun than the dislike I have for any one odious thing.
My Internet connection was so slow these last few days that I went out and got a new cable modem/router to fix it. I know that the problem was our old router, but the cable combo was too good to resist. Besides, now we can stop paying for a cable modem for $10/month. It’ll pay for itself!
The people at Comcast and Linksys were very nice to me and understood me. However, the man at Microsoft was obviously not of US origin and had a difficult time hearing me. I had to talk very slowly. It was agonizing to make all these phone calls, but I kept my cool.
The connection gets fast and then slow, so we’ll see how things are in the future…
John did not ever crack my password.
Thank you for reminding me why I don’t post this sort of stuff on my blog. Please just forget the last post. I don’t even care anymore.
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forget about it!
ADT, a wonderful company for home security sucked again. This morning, around 10 or 11, the alarm went off. I got up rather quickly because I thought someone was coming over and someone had turned on the alarm on her. No this was not the case. As it turns out, the basement fire alarm was going off. ADT called surprisingly quickly, but I did not know the security password that would have validated my presence in the house. Thus, the firemen were called over.
Meanwhile, this goddamned alarm was buzzing in my ear while the lady on the other end was asking me if there was a fire. After I confirmed there was no fire in the house at all, she got me to spray some dust-off on it (the stuff you spray on computer hardware to remove dust) which did not work. Next, she told me to dismantle it by turning it counter clockwise. Nice one lady, it tore it out of the ceiling.
So now I have this fire alarm BLASTING in my ear dangling from the ceiling by four wires. She tells me to pull firmly on one wire to turn it off, but not too hard as to tear it off. It’s a no go: it won’t pull out. Next, she tells me to try to turn off the house alarm itself. This doesn’t work either because a minute later, the alarm resets itself and blares again. After a short time, the firemen are there, and all three of them look at the alarm but can’t figure out how to dismantle it. So great, they all look at it and go because ADT created an IMPOSSIBLE alarm. After they left, the ADT lady had me looking at the backbones of the system: take out this wire and that wire, etc. This doesn’t work either. Actually what happened was the phone disconnected before the alarm did. I don’t know what happened. Maybe she got so frustrated that she hung up on me.
That’s when I went down to the basement and cut a wire with a nail clipper. The end.
No wait. The earliest ADT could send a repair man to fix the stupid alarm was tomorrow afternoon. That was the earliest they were willing to give us peace from the alarm (calm down Lee, it’s not going off anymore). So now someone has to be here while they fix the alarm. And they’re charging us $25 for their stupidity the service call.
Bob Saget is f***ing hilarious! Rebecca and I just came back from seeing him up in Roswell doing stand-up. I’m tired so I’ll talk about him later.
I finally replaced the fans in my computer, which some of you lovingly call “Frankenstein.” Now it does not sound like a vacuum cleaner. I will try to sleep with the computer on tonight to see if it wakes me up.
Speaking of, I am recovering from a cold and will be sleeping VERY comfortably tonight with my nyquil.
So, I guess the computer has no chance to wake me up. Good night.
I worked like a beast to finish up the tasty pith of weeklyshift.com. It looks great now, and so I think I will brush up er learn css now.
Earlier today I talked to an owner of Smoothie King and he said that I might have a really good thing going with weeklyshift. My cousin, a manager at a Blockbuster, also liked my idea. I will show it to stores when I think it looks as good as it functions 
(thanks for listening to me about weeklyshift too, Shu)
If you’re just joining this blog, weeklyshift is my pet project, with the main page being a monthly calendar. It allows a manager to post work hours online, so that employees can log in and view their hours, others’ hours, and send messages to others. For managers in particular, it allows an easy way to post hours and counts the total hours for each person and total hours for each week for all employees. Also, it gives a rough estimate of how many people are working for each hour of the day.
