The iSight showed up today, and I’m really impressed with it. I was downloading stuff, and so was Don on his end, and we were still able to video chat with fairly smooth video. Considering my shitty upstream pipe, that’s pretty sweet.

Next up, get Eric to try and host a 4-person video chat again.

My first class is CSE 505A, Data Security, starting September 1st. It’s TuTh 4-5:30pm, so I’ll have go into work a little earlier twice a week.

Whomever decided the default timeout for suggestions should be 0.25 seconds needs to be Steve’d. The (mostly wrong) suggestions popup at the worst moments, like when I’m trying to hit enter for a new line. Delete, delete, delete to get it back to where I want, hit enter and….it has already made the incorrect suggestion again and re-screwed my code. Also, whomever decided that the default insert should be with bogus arguments should be Steve’d too.

In summary, death to the infidels!

I finally got the GMail Loader working on OS X, and started import my old UMR related email into my gmail account for archival. The sent mail from my UMR account took about 2 hours last night. Today, I ran the inbox from my ACM account. 36MB of email took 11 hours to upload, and another hour or so to label and archive in GMail. This is partially because of my shitty upload speed, and partially because it sends one email every 2 seconds to reduce load on the smtp server. 8000 email, one every 2 seconds, this takes a while. I think I’ll hold off on upload my old UMR inbox until tomorrow.

In no particular order

1. People don’t recognize C’thulu. I don’t explain it to them.
2. Seat 26A & B on an MD-80 are loud, but there is plenty of leg/lap room due to the lack of seats in front of them.
3. Every flight on earth goes through Chicago or Dallas (at least on AA).
4. National’s Emerald Isles service is cool, if they’ve got any cars you like available by the time you get there.
5. Lambert is redheaded stepchild of international airports.
6. I was expecting to at least be able to see mountains on the plane ride in, or when the plane landed.
7. $5.00 on 470 just to get from the airport to I-25? WTF?!?!
8. Colorado must not have an actual driving portion of the drivers test in order to get a license.
9. Whoever named Colorado roads needs a dictionary to help them find new words. It seems like each street name is used on 4-5 different streets.
10. Dew in 14oz cans, in a 15 pack for $4.88? WTF? Somebody do the math and tell me if that’s a good deal, I’m too dumbfounded to think about it.
11. If we had a Noodles and Company restaurant in the STL area, I would weigh 300 pounds. Anyone who wants to make money should open a franchise at home.

DSL works!

At this point, the details of my saga are unimportant. Suffice it to say, CenturyTel and it’s subcontractors are almost as inept as W himself. Still no DSL, the latest promise date next is Tuesday by 5pm. Expect a Wednesday post describing the continued incompetence.

Called shittytel customer service.

Explained my story to Yet Another Person, who sounded like he was writing the whole thing down. He said he’d put another order into the DSL group and it should be working by 5pm tonight. He also said he’d credit my account $25 for putting up with this bullshit. We’ll see if either happens.

Update: 5pm came and went, and still no DSL. By the time I got around to calling them up AGAIN, customer service was closed. Gotta wait till monday now.

Well, I gave them 48 ½ hours. I proceeded to call the number the helpdesk wennie told me to call, and none of the options in the automated call routing system matched my query. So, I pressed 1 to report an outage.

I repeated the whole saga to another live person, and he says that in this repair ticket created by the last call, the guy who ended up with it didn’t show any DSL on the line, and closed the ticket without so much as a phone call. Note, I didn’t say no DSL in the account information, because it’s there. They simply didn’t turn it on, and he just was too incompetent to check and see if there SHOULD be DSL on the line.

Now I’m told I must call customer service during regular business hours and have them attempt to turn on DSL again. Maybe it’s time I start a new website. Centurytelsucks.com has a nice ring to it….