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We’re not being paid for this…

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Gizmo
on May 17, 2008
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Ok, so I do a lot of free support at communities, and it makes me wonder sometimes if people even try to help themselves before running in for a hand holding session…  Usually I’m fine with it, but after a while I have to just think they’re just being lazy…

So, I have a small rant, and hope you all bear with me through it…  It’s not directed at any one user (ahem) and not at any specific community…

Ok, we’re here for free, we don’t ask for anything in return; we’re here because we understand the solutions to the problems and want to (in most cases) help everyone to make any situation work for them…  We do this to help the admin’s of the sites that we enjoy; because without them we’d not be able to do what we enjoy.

Now, when you come in, and ask a million questions about the most basic stuff that could be learned by spending 5 minutes either reading through previous posts or poking and prodding the product, you’re taking our time away from users who actually have valid problems that they cannot figure out…

Utilities are built and put in place to help you lookup things like language file locations, styling on cells/sections, they’re there, we look things up the same way you do…  We’ve all been in the newb position, but we learned to think for ourselves and look for items vs sittig and whining for the most basic crap…

Then you ask for help with things that aren’t even related to the product…  Sorry, we’re not the w3c, we’re not PHP.net, we’re not going  to teach you how to code… And we’re certainly not going to do it all for you all of the time…

Please, for my sanity (or what is left of it) please learn to help yourself!  That is, unless you’re paying me to do it…  In that case, you can take this post and put some honey mustard on it and I’ll eat it ;)…

Plastic Lenses?

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Gizmo
on March 23, 2008
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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…

The hunt for the XBox… A Black Friday story…

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Gizmo
on December 2, 2007
in Entertainment, Gaming, Out and About and Whining
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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 :).

Content Theft…

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Gizmo
on October 2, 2007
in Rants, UBB and Whining
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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.

Google for Domains - Domain Recovery Woe’s

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Gizmo
on September 27, 2007
in Business, Tech and Whining
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Well, I’ve moved all of my domains over to Google Apps for their email services as they’re a hell of a lot more reliable over there than what I ever could be… Not to mention that their spam filter is bar none (and added with MY local spamfilter i get like nothing bad)… That is, all domains have been moved over but one…

One of my domains already belonged to a user account, which isn’t mine… So I can’t add it… So, I email Google’s support desk (or lack their of, the dolt I have to deal with is quite moronic), and am told that basically I’m an idiot and that another user of my orgnization has already assigned the domain to their account… Well that’s all fine and dandy, except for the fact that THERE ARE NO OTHER USERS OF MY ORGINIZATION!

So, after jumping through hoops, and them finally realizing the issue at hand, and me having to validate myself like crazy, I am finally told they can release the domain from the owners account… What they didn’t tell me is that there are several ways of going about this, and the one they chose takes 30 days to move, and then 5 days to ensure deletion… There is no way to take my domain out of this status, even if the old owner is willing to email them on my behalf (yeh I know, I should have emailed the old owner first via his “click here to contact the admin” link on the gmail for domains login page)…

So, bottom line? Well, my domain can’t be added until October 26th or so… So, I get to sit here and twiddle my thumbs until then…