Monday, January 28, 2002

>>>CNET News.com says, "Telstra employee skews cyber poll. Caught in the act of rigging online user surveys last week, Australia's leading telco is deliberating over offering a formal apology, saying it can't control the actions of its employees." It's hard to say who's at fault here.  I found it interesting that in the article CNET does not acknowledge the requirement that if they (ZDNET) are going to offer online polls that they should at a minimum reflect the preparations that they themselves have made to ensure the accuracy of the polls.  It's called CNET News, I feel that they should take some of the responsibility for verifying the facts. 11:53:17 PM

>>>He's a ferocious little guy, don't you think? 2:41:24 PM

>>>I noticed a pattern that I follow when writing to my blog.  If I mention a company or site that I like, I always add a hyperlink to them in the post. When I tak about a company or site that I do not like, I never add a link to their site. 2:28:31 PM

>>>Garret says, "Sitting on hold with AOL, trying to cancel my service. they play endless ads, but the first one is: *mail* your cancellation request to us. second one is: *fax* your cancellation request to us." I played this game with AOL back in the day.  I could get set up with an account online but had to talk to a real person, during business hours, to cancel my account.  And, if I changed my mind all I had to do was use AOL one more time in the next 60 days and they would automatically start my account back up. The same thing is going on with Interland.  I was a Hostpro customer until they merged with Interland.  You can get a web hosting account there in less than an hour.  All hooked up and ready to go.  FTP, Email, the works.  Just wait for your DNS to propagate to be totally accessible, but in the meantime the site is fully functional via IP. But, just try and cancel the account.  First it can only be done via your Customer Service extranet.  If you have your username and Secret Code.  Then it takes about 60 days for the cancellation to take effect.  Yes, they keep billing you and no, they can't do anything about it.  YOu just have to wait for them to catch up and eventually do a chargeback for your credit card.  It's a total racket. What's missing is a way for all of the individual people who use their service and services like it to stay connected and share their experiences.  Honestly, Interland's response time on this issue is so bad I'm surprised that there has not been a class action taken against them. 2:26:40 PM

>>>This pop up message from Real is completely wrong.  If every piece of software I owned started bugging me to use it, I would probably give up on the computer. Is it not enough that Real has already added an icon to my Desktop, Start Bar, and Program Folders; what about the two additions to Internet Explorer, the Real Guide on my Toolbar and a new Favorites folder; or their addition to my Startup folder with a new full time icon in my Tray.  If all of these additions have not encouraged the someone to use their player, what makes them think that this pop could have any more success. I'm waiting for their automated phone system to call me and say, "Your RealOne Player could be doing so much more!" 9:54:42 AM