Articles/Editorials

Just general thoughts and outburts…

this is not fun

it seems that almost every other day now I am fighting off a hacker who keeps hacking this site.. I’ve changed the passwords to everything, I’ve delete the entire site but yet he still manages to hack the site and install some stupid code.. wordpress has been up to date, everything is up to date but still he manged to hack it, and kept hacking it after I did the re-install

Hey Mr Hacker.. can I ask you why you’re doing this?

Don’t you have anything better to do with your life that bother me?

Why did you pick my site?

Why don’t you just go burn in hell?!

Counterfeit Money!

Ha! I’ve never saw a ‘real’ counterfeit bill until today.. a few minutes ago I went to the local gas station to grab cigarettes and apparently they just got it before I got there, he was showing the other employee the bill and how it shows up black instead of yellow with their special marker.. it was a $10 bill, and he let me see it as they know me there, I’m in there all of the time getting gas etc, but yeah he let me see it and damn it looks real.. Looking closer though the watermark portrait on the back was missing from it..

There’s a first for everything I guess.. It’s a trip, I guess I just didn’t think that sort of thing happened around here, but I guess it can happen anywhere right?

oh well, that was the interesting start of my morning…

Links an’ ‘at

It’s Pittsburgh thing an‘ at’..

anyway, here’s a bunch of links:

TestFreaks:

Review of Acer Aspire AS5738PG-6306 Touch Screen Notebook

Review of Hercules ePlug 200 Duo Powerline Network Kit

Review of Canon PIXMA MX870 Office All-In-One Printer

Review of MSI Wind12 U230 Netbook

Review of CiragoTV Pro CTP1000 Multimedia Player

Bon Fide Reviews:

Review of 23″ HP De-Branded HDMI 1080p Widescreen LCD Monitor w/Speakers

Review of BlackArmor PS 110 USB 3.0 Performance Kit

Review of Unitek USB 3.0 SATA HDD Docking Station (Y-1071)

Review of Brenthaven Stylis III-XF TV289ZM/A Notebook Case

Review of USB 3.0 GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 3 PCI Express Card GA-USB3.0

iGadgetLife:

Review of Dynex 7” LCD Portable TV DX-7HTV-09

Review of Two USB 3.0 34mm Expresscards

MobilityDigest:

WinX DVD Ripper Platinum Review

DragonSteelMods:

MusicSkins Custom Netbook Skin Review

Trust SoundForce USB Powered Portable Speakers Reviewed

Microsoft SideWinder X4 Keyboard Review

Wii digest:

MusicSkins Custom Wii Skin Review

Chase Customer Support is Useless and Incompetent

So I just want to pay on my car.

I’m on hold yet again as I type this actually, I’m at 2 1/2 hours on the phone with these people. At this point in time I’ve spoke to 17 different people.

I’ve heard numerous excuses as to why I can’t make my payment.

It’s due the 21st of this month.

I almost always pay it early via their online banking system, but now for some unknown reason I cannot do it.

It says I owe $0.00 but it’s due on the 21st of March. Now I have a paper bill here that says my payment amount and due date of course.

Yes I’ve asked to speak to supervisors about this but suspiciously three times when I asked I was hung up on.

They told me that I wasn’t actually hung up on, it’s because I was using a cell phone and it was my phone that cut me off. I told them i don’t think so because I was bounced back to the main menu when I asked to speak to a supervisor, so to me that is the same as being hung up on. They of course didn’t know what to say at that point since I proved them wrong.

I was then told that the reason I couldn’t make my payment was because I was using FireFox and I was told to use Internet Explorer… SURPRISE the same thing happens with IE… ( I thought that was rather funny they would even suggest that, it’s 2010 and I think we should be able to use our browser of choice and not be told to use IE)

I was then told that I couldn’t make my payment because it’s too early?!?!?  What the frak does that mean? I’m not allowed to pay early now?!!? Is this a ploy to make sure they get their late fees from me? Do they need that $$ that bad that they won’t let me pay early just so they get the fee?

Again, I’m on the phone with them right now… they told me to log out and they’ll trouble shoot my account, I log back in and my account is gone, log back out, log back in and my account is there again but I still cannot pay my bill.

I even emailed the account executive for Chase but never hard back of course…

I emailed them as well through the online banking system and they told me to call the same number that I’ve been calling.

Apparently no one writes notes on the accounts as to any problems either, I’ve had to explain my problem 17 times now to 17 different people.

So I was told now that someone should be calling me back soon, what are the chances of that actually happening?!

My AT&T Contract Expires in two weeks…

Hmm.. what to do, what to do…

My contract expires on the 27th actually, two weeks basically..

but their records are wrong on how long I’ve been with them, it says only since 2006, but I know it was before that.

I’ve been fighting with them for years about this literally.. I was with AT&T, they switched me to Cingular, and then they switched me back to AT&T. The 2006 date is from when I was switched to Cingular officially and apparently they count nothing before that and I don’t know why..

I’m loathe to re-up with them as they screwed me over the last time on my phone.. I got the AT&T Tilt when it was new, fine they gave me a $50 discount on a refurb one, but the week after I bought the phone they put it on sale for FREE with contract renewal  Of course I called them and complained but they said there was nothing they could do.. you mean to tell me that they honestly didn’t know they were going to run that special in a week?!

They did it to me on purpose obviously.. and of course they didn’t even want to give me a discount because they said I wasn’t with them that long, and then we’re back to the fact that yes I was with them years before that, but the records are lost apparently…  I don’t save my bills from that far back, maybe I should..

What other choice do I have though.. Verizon is the other option or maybe T-Mobile…  AT&T is the third company I’ve been with and it’s the first one that I can actually get a phone call in my house with, so that’s the main reason I’ve stuck with them this long…

I want the new AT&T Tilt2, but don’t want to pay $200 for it especially after the last time I dealt with them in getting a new phone..

 

Links and Stuff –The I’m Tired Edition..

It’s seems I’m always tired anymore… maybe I shouldn’t stay up until midnight and get up at 5am huh? That could be the problem…

Anyway, here’s a bunch of links for you:

 

From TestFreaks

News and Reviews for March 4th 2010

Explicit Apps On The App Store – Good or Bad?

Review of Kingston DataTraveler 310 256gb USB Flash Drive

Review of Motorola T805 Bluetooth GPS Receiver

Review of UNITEK 2 Port USB 3.0 PCI Express Card

Review of Verizon Wireless Palm Pre Plus

Verizon Wireless Motorola Devour – Hands on

Review of Seagate BlackArmor 500GB PS 110 USB 3.0 Performance Kit

Review of Kingston SSDNow V Series 128gb SSD Notebook Bundle

Review of USB 3.0 2.5″ SATA HDD Enclosure

Review of Patriot Valkyrie 2 Bay Network Attach Storage

Review of Canon PIXMA MX340 Office All-In-One Printer

Review of Patriot Box Office Media Player

 

From iGadgetLife:

Review of BlueChip BH08N Bluetooth Headset

Proporta Protective Laptop Bag

Proporta Products for the Asus Eee PC 900

 

From BonaFide Reviews:

Review of HP Deskjet F4480 All-In-One

Review of Polaroid Pogo Instant Mobile Printer

 

From MobilityDigest:

THE WP7 Skin Is Available To Download

SKTools Releases New Version 4.5.1.4

New BlackBerry Slider Pictures Leak

Verizon Touch Pro 2 Getting Sense 2.5 ??

ZAGG Skins For HTC Devices

 

From Xbox360Digest:

Infinity Ward Founders Sue Activision over Unpaid Royalties

250 GB Hard Drive makes an appearance

New Splinter Cell Conviction Special Edition Bundle

Activision “Reveals New Plans for Call of Duty Franchise”

New Releases: Week of 3/1/10

Two for Valentine’s day

Double post today to catch up for my lack of posting things.. just some links to reviews and stuff is all though.. nothing major..

From TestFreaks:

Review of Canon PIXMA MX340 Office All-In-One Printer

Review of Patriot Box Office Media Player

News for Friday February 12th 2010

Review of CiragoTV Platinum CMC2000 500GB Network Multimedia Player

Review of Verizon Wireless Palm Pixi Plus

Review of Epson MovieMate 60 Projector

Review of Scosche solCHAT II – Solar Powered Bluetooth Speakerphone

 

One from iGadgetLife with another one the way this week:

Proporta Products for the Asus Eee PC 900

 

Two from DragonSteelMods:

Mionix Naos 5000 Gaming Mouse Review

Enermax AURORA Micro Wireless Keyboard Reviewed

 

and two from MobilityDigest:

Wondershare DVD Converter Ultimate

Review: Uniea U-Sleaf Reversible Universal Sleeve for 10.2" Netbooks

 

and we still have too much snow.. I think we’re over 30 inches now since last Friday the 5th gack..

This is from the 10th:

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