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I’m sure that you have heard of Tempur Pedic. They are the memory foam manufacturer that spends millions on advertising. Theyre beds rise all the way up to $7000, and their lowest one starts in the low thousands. The mattress that I recently bought from Mattress Dr compares to the celebrity and grand bed from tempur pedic, which are their top two brands. These two mattresses go for $3799 and $5999 respectively. Now, I have lied on all of these beds at many different stores, and the mattress I just received from Mattress Dr feels just as comfortable if not better than the Tempur Pedic models. I could not recommend Mattress Dr any higher.

I have gotten the best nights of sleep I have ever gotten in the past couple days thanks to the Ultra Pedic 12 from Mattress Dr. If you are in the market looking for a bed, I would highly recommend them. Their prices are absolutely amazing, and they have free delivery. What more can you ask for. I was wary about buying a bed online without lying on it first, but there is no reason to be with Mattress Dr.

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To keep the story short here is the gist of my past week. Our landlord called us and told us that we were going to be able to move in early. We go over to see the house, and it is an ABSOLUTE mess. The previous tenants left stuff everywhere, and the whole house had a very bad smell to it. The landlord wanted to charge us in order to clean it, since we were moving in early. This is pretty ridiculous, but we did it anyway so we had time to get our house ready. We have been cleaning for a week, and now its in pretty good shape. I bought a nice desk, bed, carpet, and dresser so I have a nice bedroom/office to spend my time in.

Over the course of the next couple weeks, I will begin writing some adobe air tutorials to help with the lacking documentation on the subject. I hope that it will be able to make things easier for some new developers to adobe air.

Then I proceeded to look at the cable, which appears to be not too bad until you look at the fine print. Our package starts at $50 a month, but we will soon find the bill at $126 a month. I know for a fact that I could have this for cheaper with DirecTV, but unfortunately for me my landlord has a thing against satellites. So I swallowed the price, and then this is where all the fun starts. I go through their surveys to find that I am automatically connected to a chat. It says that there was a problem with my order information. I wait ten minutes and no one speaks, and then a message comes up, “Mike has closed the chat.” Thanks Mike!

I give it a rest until the next day. I try three more times, and the same exact thing happens with various other people closing the chat on me. Finally the fourth time I get an actual person. They tell me that my information was lost in the order. Apparently the series of tubes that are the internet ate my order information. I then need to tell them what order I wanted. Then they ask for my information concluding with my social security number. I tell them there is absolutely no reason they need my social to sign up for television. If I don’t pay, just shut it off. They gave me some pre printed response about how other customers felt the same way, and they eventually realized that it was necessary. I still demanded no, and they allowed me to give my drivers license instead.

It concludes with her giving me the bill, which was $75 higher than I expected. I ask what this is, and she tells me they are installation charges. What company charges the new customer for installation. If I were running a company, I would go out of my way to do anything for them at the beginning to turn them into a loyal customer. At this point, I am counting down the days until Verizon Fios comes in. I tell her that i am an IST student, and I worked at Circuit City selling televisions for 2 years. I do not need help plugging in any wires or boxes. Unfortunately, it is “required” for all customers regardless of their expertise. So I am stuck with the installation fee.

I twittered about this whole ordeal with Comcast, and I got a few responses from some Comcast employees. They tell me it costs them $150 to send out a truck, and that I’m getting a deal. Oh yea, $75 to plug in wires is a great deal! We will see what happens, but I am far from impressed with Comcast currently.

In march, my ex-girlfriends ex-boyfriend broke my computer. Its a long story, and all that you need to know is that the screen was spider webbed and unusable. Fortunately for me, I got the full price for the computer from him, and I bought a new macbook. I fixed the screen on the old macbook for $400, and now my Dad is using that computer.

The problems with this new macbook started in fall of 2007. During that time, I was using my computer as normal doing some development work for my job as TexasHoldem.com. Then all of a sudden my computer freezes. I hard restart my computer, and it boots into a command line. After this, I am sitting in my chair puzzled at why I am looking at a command line instead of my desktop. I try some things to fix it, but they all resulted in nothing. Then, one time when I restart it, absolutely nothing happens. Some of the details are fuzzy now, but I tried some maintenance disks, and they all came to one conclusion: my hard drive failed.

I’m not sure what exactly caused my hard drive to fail, but it was a large nuisance none the less. I definitely learned my lesson, and bought an external along with a new hard drive right away. I now backup my computer regularly so that if this happens again, I will not lose everything. Ironically, this same thing happened to my girlfriend, Keri, a few months later. She has the same exactly computer as I do, and her hard drive completely failed as well.

The next problem I had was with the screen on my new-er macbook. On the right side of the screen there are two vertical lines of stuck pixels. One is a light blue, and the other is a bright green. I am assuming the problem is with the ribbon connector from the motherboard to the screen. I figured out how to fix the green line but it periodically comes back. If I push on the apple on the back of the screen, the green stuck line will disappear. However, everything else I try does nothing to the stuck blue line. Thankfully, it is barely noticeable, and when i go to sell this computer, I hope it will have magically disappeared by then.

Recently, I encountered another problem, which was that my charger died. This was quite annoying, because when it died, that meant I had three hours left to use my computer. And to top it all off, there is no apple store near me, and chargers are $80. I am going to post an interesting story soon about my experience in the New YorK City apple store, but to make the story short here, I’ll tell you what happened. I basically walked in and demanded a new charger, and they actually gave me in. More details to come in a future post.

Lastly, but not least, the major problem that I have been having lately is keyboard failure. As a programmer, this is a pretty important feature of my computer. The best part about all this is that the keys that are failing are the spacebar and delete key. I was developing a javascript application, and then all of a sudden my spacebar key stopped working. I pressed it down hard, and then it started working again. A couple days later, the problem was really bad, and I was unable to use the spacebar. I then ordered a new one, and it came in yesterday.

So far the new spacebar has been working pretty good, but it has been having some problems. Also, now the delete key is having more problems, which is unexpected. I originally thought the problem had to do with the spacebar. I am probably going to order a new delete key soon to see if that fixes the problem. I am really hoping the problem isn’t motherboard related or something else, because I really cannot afford to replace the entire keyboard right now. Please comment and let me know if you have any experience with problematic keyboards.

Those are all of the problems I have had so far, and I hope that I will not experience many more. I am probably going to try to sell the computer when the new apple laptops come out, and I will be buying one of the new ones.

Then my computer has been having problems again. As much as I love my mac, it does give me a lot of grief. Last year, the screen broke and I had to have it replaced. Then my hard drive crashed, and I lost everything. Next, my charger breaks, which is not cheap. Then lately, I’ve been having more problems. The right side of the screen now has a blue line going down the side of it. How much quality does apple actually put into these screens.

Then the ultimate problem. As a programmer, having your keyboard work is kind of an important thing. As I was programming this afternoon, all of a sudden my spacebar stops working. If I hit it really hard it will work for about a minute, and then go back to not working (So you can imagine how annoying typing out this post is). So I took it off to clean and then put it back on. It was good for about ten minutes and then back to the same old. Then the delete key was working, so I tried to clean that as well. And guess what, I broke the scissor mechanism under the key as I was taking it off. Then to fix it, I switched the delete key out with the caps lock key, since I never use it. This has just been a stressful day, as I just need this computer to make it until Apple comes out with the new laptops in a couple months. I just ordered a new space bar, and I hope that will fix the problem. I’ll post here when it comes, and let you know how it works out.

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