I ordered 3 years of Maxim from this company as the price could not be met elsewhere… Turns out that the statement “if it sounds too good to be true, chances are, it’s not” comes to be true… Never recieved a single thing.
Sent several queries to the “sales department” since I ordered, they used to respond with “we’re looking into it”, and even talked to someone claiming to be the “new owner” who was fixing issues with previous owners… Was promised things would be made right… Well, here I am almost a year later, with no issues…
Turns out, when I took the time to write Maxim to inquire about if an order had been received, and forwarded the information to WholeSaleSubscriptions.com that they decided I was no longer worth lying to…
After I had realized I had been scammed, I took and googled the company… Good grief there are a lot of people who also got scammed… Too bad it’s past my providers “maximum return” timeframe (which it would have been reguardless as it generally takes 3+ months to start a new subscription with any company… unless you deal with them directly), or I’d file a complaint to get my money back…
So, we brought the boy’s (Trey, Sam and my son (2 and a half), and Adam, Walter and Kellie’s son (4)) to the mall last night… We did some walking around and decided to let the kids burn off energy in the little kids area as Walter and I went to Game Stop to see if they had the elusive wii that he’s been looking for…
Well, it turns out that two 4-5 year old Mexican boy’s where bullying Adam, so Trey (my 2.5 year old) goes to his rescue, tears the bigger kids down, and puts Adam in a head lock and walks away…
Yeh, that’s right… My 2 year old kicked two 5 year old’s butts because he was bullying his wench (Adam) then reassured Adam that he was his wench by hauling him to the other end of the play equipment in a head lock… That’s my boy ;)…
So, for anyone who’s had the misfortune of being at my house and listening to my utterly random music collection; you’ll know I love music of every Genera… Especially the feel of Early 90’s Alternative music… Well, I came accross a band which kindles my interest…
Plain White T’s has a nice smoothe sound and actually have words you can understand! If you’ve had the chance to watch the ABC Family show “Greek”, they’re the band that does the intro and (from what I can tell) a lot of the music for the show…
So, I’d like to invite you all to go and preview one of their CD’s on Amazon, it won’t disappoint…
Disc’s:
Plain White T’s - Hey There Delilah
Plain White T’s - Every Second Counts
Plain White T’s - All That We Needed
Plain White T’s - Stop
So, I get a mailing to my www.undergroundnews.com email address from some “spades online” gaming site interested in our “US Traffic” as they put it… I go and do a quick google search and see hundreds of people whining about how this company (Cyprus based) is nothing but a scam…
A quick polite email to the (no doubt bot) person who sent me the message:
Upon researching your company through search engines, I regret to inform you that we are not interested in associating our community with your services.
Sincerely,
James Corthell
UGN Security President
I wonder what the response will be?
Ok, I’ve had my glasses for all of 3 days… I notice a smudge… I polish it… and polish it… and polish it… about an hour later, it won’t come out… What is this, a nick in my 3 day old lens?…
Honestly, I can’t understand how people can use this ulta thin plastic in their lenses… I used glasses for years with Glass, not one problem… Plastic? 3 days until I go so nutty I want to throw them through a wall…
I call the glasses shoppe, and ofcoarse the one place covered by my blasted insurance isn’t open on sunday’s; so I tried to leave a message… No voicemail… I finally found the direct line for their optical department, at least they have the courtesy of a voicemail line…
I call in and leave a short message, “This is James Corthell, i can be reached at blah blah blah number, I have spent the last hour trying to clear out what looks like a piece of dust off of my lens and it won’t come out, I haven’t a clue how long it’s been there, but I need to get it fixed as soon as possible. I’ve never had any problem with Glass when I had it, so I need to see how much extra it’s going to cost to get this fixed and how much more it’ll weigh in glass.”
Let us hope for good news, as I can’t stand this friggen smidge, it’s right on where my puple goes, and all i see is non-clearness and it’s driving me so batty that i can’t stand to wear the brand new $400 glasses…
Sad to say, our Dedicated Server is gone now, or rather it will be soon… HostNuke’s moved us back to a VPS, though we have about the same spec’s as we did before, only I’m assuming its newer hardware than the older stuff we had ;)…
CentOS5 as usual, Webmin/VirtualMin as before, PHP5/MySQL5… Email still served through Google lol… Our RDNS should be set out of the box, but will need to validate IP’s against spamhaus and check that new registration emails are being sent/received…
All that fun stuff! lol…
One heartache though, I went to upgrade Gallery to the latest build on www.corthell.net and the damned thing choked, so I sat here for like 3 hours trying to do a simple upgrade… The bafoon who responded to my forum posting on their forums said I’d have to delete everything and start from scratch…
The fix you ask? The versions.dat file was empty for some reason (likely due to the botched upgrade prior in the night), so finding a “recovery” posting in their FAQ did wonders to getvme back up… Took about 2 minutes to patch the file and run the upgrader… And best of all, I didn’t have to purge and start anew… As I would have cried lol…
I have a lot more to patch and upgrade on the new machine, and loads more to look up; so wish me luck, it’ll be a fun task… not like I needed another after what heartache’s this last month brought me… More on that, and more on the server migration later…
Well, I bought the Sandisk Cruzer 1gb drive which matches the stock feel of the XBox Core/Premium system, and I have a standard key (which I didn’t think was working) for my XBox360… Turns out, ANY USB device cannot access saved games or
XBL data…
So, what’s the problem? Well, I bought them so I could copy my XBL account to Walter’s XBox (and vice versa) so that he doesn’t have to bring his over all the time so we ca link systems to play together on our respective accounts…
So, now I have to buy the XBox Memory Card to do this… I found several of the 512mb’s on EBay though for under $20 (after shipping); and I can supposedly use them as storage devices (vs media devices) in the xbox. So I should be able to store downloads on there, such as game downloads, like Halo1 should I choose to blow 800 points on it ($10~).
So, a word to the wise:
USB Devices - Media Devices, music, pictures, video.
Memory Devices - Game Saves, Downloads, Storage.
Soooo, we get the bright idea on Black Friday that we want an XBox360… We have money, why not… Eventhough it’s rent and food money ;)…
So, Walter gets down here (From Vancouver, WA (Approx 30-35mi)) at about 10pm… We go to Walmart, they’re out. We go to Fred Meyers as we await sam to return a game (we bought the wrong version of it, which cost twice as much), they’re out… We go to toys r us, they’re closed… All in all, we hit every store on 82nd that was open in about 20 minutes… All out…
Long story short… We ended up in Camas, WA (Approx 30-35mi or 25mi from Walter’s house in the opposite direction)… The Walmart there had 2, core machines… the old ones… Old as in no HDMI, no “new chips”, no “additional heatsync’s”… So lets just hope we don’t burn out or I’ll have ot send it in for service…
Well, I have the XBox now… Halo is much more fun when I don’t have to wait for Walter to have to come over with his XBox lol… Made loads of new acquaintances :).
Well, a fine slap in the face from Microsoft… Turns out that when you cancel your gamertag for the XBox Live service, you cannot recover it in the future… Most people wouldn’t care here, but I do for two reasons…
1. Moguai is mine on their service, i’d have preferred to keep it…
2. If you port your old gamertag up to XBL for the 360, you get a free copy of Halo3…
As I can’t port up, I can’t do the deal :(…
Why did I cancel my XBL you ask? Well, in 2003 they overcharged us, and refused to refund us as their systems “didn’t allow” for it; so I had my creditcard company do it on their behalf and told them where they could put it…
So, now I’m on XBL as Gremelin, but still wanting to take part in the XBL thing to get a (second) copy of halo3…
So, I’m alpha testing UBB.Threads 7.3 on my private development server… A client whines to let me allow them to poke around and I’m getting ready to walk out the door; so I finally give in just so I can leave…
So, I get a message today with them whining about how they can’t figure something out, and they link me to their forum to check it out… Wait, what’s this… Their theme looks a lot like the standard template I use for most of my themes, only the dark version which I’ve yet to release to anyone… So I poke around a bit more, and my hover effects are there as well…
What’s this, no, this client would never… The client jacked my theme, changed the colors, and are using it on their site… No asking me about using it, no asking me if they could pay to use it (as it’s a paid theme), they just blatently stole it and adapted it to their site, no questions asked…
Wow… Asif I needed this today.