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am I crazy? But for some reaso…

joetinsley — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:26:53 +0000

am I crazy? But for some reason I really want to see “Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist”

How fast does Google index your pages?

joetinsley — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:30:39 +0000

From time to time I post comments on my twitter account (I tweet). I have my blog set up so that it will also download and convert my tweets into blog posts. Today I made a post before noon, somewhere in the ball park of 10:00 and 11:00 A.M. Right before lunch, 12:00 for shit and giggles I decided to do a vanity search on my blog. Low and behold the post that was just made to my twitter account was now being indexed. I’ve seen this before but only with video that has been loaded to Youtube. The video showed up within hours but after a day or two the video disappeared. So I’m wondering if this entry is working on the same type of principle. For the next couple of days I’m going to keep a close eye on this post to see if it in fact disappears. The only real connection I can make is that Google owns YouTube and now owns Feedburner, so perhaps since they get the ping basically instantly they may temporary index the listing, sorta like a Digg effect. This is actually a good idea, supposing someone is blogging about a currently event, his or her information my be available to the public instantly… Kind of gives the term “Hot off the press” a new meaning
Here’s a screen shot of the search result

Blog Joe Blog Search Results

PHP Mini SQL Admin is simply incredible

joetinsley — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:50:44 +0000

Hey I know I say this about almost every script or application I run across but this one tops the cake. Have you ever been in the need for phpMyAdmin functionally and did not have it, I have. Well I found one of the greatest applications on the net last night. PHP Mini SQL Admin, it’s an extremely lightweight alternative to phpMyAdmin, and phpMyAdmin totally rocks as you know. Instead of an 11mb install this applications comes in at around 10kb. Great for quick and easy MySQL database access and manipulation. In my honest opinion I think this is a great tool to keep in your arsenal. It’s good to have it and not need it, then to need it and not have it. I’m storing mine on a flash drive.

Check it out for yourself.
It’s free and takes less then 3 minutes to install.
http://phpminiadmin.sourceforge.net/

There’s going to be blood on t…

joetinsley — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:32:42 +0000

There’s going to be blood on the street today
Jobless claims at 7-year high
http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/eta/ui/current.htm

Senate approves Bailout Bill

joetinsley — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:16:03 +0000

Senate approves Bailout Bill

SimpleXML in PHP5 is simply incredible

joetinsley — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:24:13 +0000

I’m not 100% sure if it was version 5 of PHP where XMl support was added but it’s a beautiful thing. Now with a minimum amount of code I’m able to efficiently parse through a XML feed without any trouble. Before XML support was added I would have to write a few more lines of code using cURL. Will I abandon cURL, heck naw, cURL is like the Swiss army knife of functions, when all fails you can always rely on curl.

I’m adding a small snippet of code to the Blog Joe Blog Tools page, feel free to chop it up and use as needed. Use your imagination there’s probably a gang you can pull off using this function.

See the wiki page they have some good examples also.
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/CURL_PHP_tutorial

It’s 5 A.M. and I just put $6…

joetinsley — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 09:03:15 +0000

It’s 5 A.M. and I just put $67.00 worth of gas in my truck

Bad move by Gov. Perdue to not…

joetinsley — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:52:21 +0000

Bad move by Gov. Perdue to not postpone the Ga & AL game. Coming Monday people are going to be looking crazy when they can’t get to work

Bellsouth Fast Access DLS Direct Sucks

joetinsley — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:45:45 +0000

I love my neighbor!
If it wasn’t for her lack of WI-Fi security I would not be able to make this post this morning.
Yesterday when I got home my DSL was off. I routinely power cycled my modem, no biggie this has happen before. Well after a few power cycles and still no go I begin to panic, hell I’m sure the Bellsouth CSR would be clocking out for the day soon. I first called the 6500 number, that was a bust their offices where closed. So I called the 2375 number, that’s the DSL technical support number. I got this sweet sounding and extremely nice CSR. But nice is not what I needed, screw nice give me a technician that knows what they are doing. That’s the problem there are too many dam script readers at Bellsouth, and if your issue deviants from the script your S.O.L.

I truly believe companies should go back to basics and focus more on customer service. Chat support, email support, and digital operators that attempt to solve your problems with a long array of options to navigate through are all cool and perhaps there’s a time and place for things like this but customers service should be a more direct and personal experience and companies now a days are pulling away from the personal portion of the experience.

Anyway about 30 minutes in and after talking to her manager, I was told that my modem was broke and that they would have to send me a new modem. But the modem would not reach me until Thursday. F’n GREAT! But the kicker was right before she asked me to confirm my mailing address she explained to me that the modem was like $75.00 and if I liked I could spread it amongst several payments… I said no! Perhaps she thought I was crazy because she said “pardon me”, I was like I’m not paying for a new modem because it’s not broke. It did not just break while I was at work, it worked perfectly this morning. Well she talked to her manager and the charge was waived. Cool…I guess
Well later today, probably during lunch I plan to call Comcast, and explain to them that I have been a Bellsouth DSL customer for more then 8 years now, and if hey want a new and loyal customer s business they can have it only if they can hook up my internet today. If they can do that then screw Bellsouth Fast Access DSL

Here my bottom line, I’ve had Bellsouth Fast Access DSL for about 8 or more years now. I’ve recommended my mother, girlfriend and several others to join because I thought the service was decent.
I decided to try out there DLS direct service (that’s just DSL w/o Phone service) with Vonage as my phone service, to save a couple of dollars. This has been a continues struggle. These two companies do not play well with each other. Great when they are separate but together the SUCK! Vonage blames Bellsouth for reasons why things aren’t operational and Bellsouth blames Vonage. You can never get them two on the phone together, and with out doing so your basically screwed.
This has been one of my worst experiences every, with the going back and forwards.
I can’t wait to drop them both!

Bellsouth DSL screwed me, I’m …

joetinsley — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:49:46 +0000

Bellsouth DSL screwed me, I’m now without Internet for 2 days. Don’t get DSL Direct!