Rants!

My rantings…

GoDaddy Has Disabled XMLRPC Remote Posting and Decided NOT to Tell Anyone

This is a bunch of BS. I haven’t been able to post remotely since Sunday to any of my GoDaddy hosted sites and I thought maybe it was something I did, nope it’s not.

I used Windows Live Writer for all my sites, on GoDaddy and not on GoDaddy, it works great and it’s just much easier to use than the WP back end.

I’ve been trying to figure out the problem since Monday as to why I couldn’t post, I’ve probably spent at least 15 hours of my time trying to figure it out and it had nothing to do with me at all.

GoDaddy has disabled XMLRPC remote posting on their hosting accounts and just decided NOT to tell any of their customers.

What pisses me off the most is that the support rep told me that they don’t have an automated system in place to let their customers know of important issues like this, but yet they do have an automated system that sends me 1-2 emails everyday with offers and trying to get me to spend more money with them. That makes no sense at all. They can send out all these spammy offers but they can’t send out something that’s actually important and affects their customers?

I’ve been with them for almost 10 years now I believe, January 2005 was when my first site went up with them if I recall correctly and it’s time to go. This is not how you treat your customers. You do not make significant changes and NOT tell them about it, that’s just wrong. So I’m in process of backing up all my sites now and I guess I’m going to spend the day researching hosting companies.

I’m so infuriated right now at them. I don’t understand how they can NOT tell their customers about something that’s actually important. I have to wonder how many others out there are like me and have been spending hours trying to figure out what was wrong with their sites on their own and just wasting their time.

Oh any they have no idea when it might be enabled again.

On a side note, here’s another thing that GoDaddy did and didn’t tell anyone, there’s now no way to email GoDaddy support. The support rep told me they got rid of it because phone and chat support were ‘better’ for their customers. Really I had to sit and wait with the chat window open for about 15 minutes before someone finally came on to help me. I could have just typed an email and send it along in under a minute probably. If you’re going do do something like that then why not have a toll free number at least?

 

Missing Pictures

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So apparently I’m missing all kinds of pictures and I don’t know why, I have whole directories gone..

I just fixed the Vinyl 33 category so all those pictures are back, at least those of the records themselves.

Speaking of records, I’m trying to sell my vinyl, I’ve got 290 45s and 118 33s and I just got an offer for $40 for the whole lot. I was crushed, that price is outrageous for over 400 records that are over 50 years old. I don’t know what to do, I need money so I’m selling everything even the stuff I don’t want to like the records, they were mine, my moms and das collection, or I should say, it’s what’s left of the collection as there was a lot more.

I’m Done, Losing House, Losing Everything

 

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Chances are this site won’t be here next month. It was fun while it lasted.

Electricity will be shut off on Friday I believe so I won’t be updating after that I guess.

Just got the default letter for the house so that’s that I guess… I don’t know what will happen to my kids now..

 

Any one want to donate?  You can send via paypal to kbrozio@gmail.com

-Any little bit will and can help at this point…

USPS Tracking Lies

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So I’m still having a problem with getting deliveries from USPS.

I check my tracking and it says ‘Notice Left (No Authorized Recipient Available)’.

Well that’s wrong, we were home and my dogs were home and I have cameras on the porch. I saw the mailman come and deliver the mail and he had no package.

There was no notice left at all, this has happened several times now in fact and I’m getting sick of it.

That’s just for the tracking numbers that I know of, I have to wonder how many packages am I not getting because a notice was supposedly left but in reality it wasn’t?

The manager at the post office says the computer automatically generates the “Notice Left (No Authorized Recipient Available)” to the tracking and that makes no sense at all.

Why is the computer lying to me?

I don’t understand why it is saying a notice was left when there really wasn’t one?

Why is the computer lying about this?

And they wonder why no one likes to use USPS anymore?  With all the stealing and things like this, yeah I don’t want to use it either.

Liar Liar Pants on Fire

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So I’ve got another rant.

I’m tired of being called a liar, or everyone just assuming the other person is right and taking their word for it and and just being a liar about things. It seems everything to do with the government, any of their representatives are always right no matter what.

Not getting into all of it right now, but every government rep I’ve ever dealt has lied and they’ve called me a liar and they were believed and I wasn’t. It’s a pattern I’ve come to see.

Anyway, we’re having a problem with a our mailman now.

He’s fat, lazy, rarely ever wears a uniform that I’ve seen (not that I actually pay attention to his clothes, but the few times I did notice he wasn’t in uniform) and the mail is always late and you never really know when it’s going to come. It might come at 4pm, 5pm, 6pm, who knows. I went to bed one night thinking we had got no mail only to wake up the next day and notice there’s mail in the mailbox. Who the hell knows what time it was delivered?!

It started when we lost one of the best mailmen we ever had, he was transferred and now we’ve got this lazy guy.

About two weeks ago I had a rather large package being delivered to me. It wasn’t mine actually, it was something I ordered for a friend, but it was a big box. My kids bus stop is down a block and over a block and the mailman saw my wife at the bus stop and tried to give her my package instead of delivering it to my house like he’s supposed to do. It’s his job last I checked. He was rude and he couldn’t understand why my wife wouldn’t take the package.

I’ve been waiting for a delivery from Europe and supposedly he tried to deliver it on this past Monday. Now Monday I was home, wife was home and the three kids were home and the two dogs of course and we had a friend of the family over as well. The mailman never rang the doorbell and never knocked on the door, NONE of us heard anything. He did not try and deliver the package obviously, he says he did, he says he knocked on the door.

The first thing is, why would you knock when there’s a doorbell right there?

Secondly, my dogs have great ears, they hear things across the street and down the street, they would have heard him knocking. It’s to the point that it’s annoying and I have to keep the front windows and front door closed even in the summer because if not they just bark non stop.

So I had to make a special trip to the post office to get my package. Not a big deal to me, but my wife didn’t like the fact that I had to and the fact that the mailman said he tried to deliver. He lied obviously.

Yesterday my wife saw the mailman at the bus stop and tapped him on the shoulder and politely said ‘excuse me’ and proceeded to ask why he didn’t deliver the package.

Well he says that’s assault and harassment and then later he proceeded to skip our house blatantly for mail delivery yesterday. I have security cameras on the porch and I watched him go up the neighbors steps, then back down and walk right past out house.

Now I just got a phone call from the post office telling me that he didn’t deliver yesterday because he was harassed and poked by my wife as he put it. There were three witnesses at the bus stop that say differently, but the post office believes him and that’s it, the end of it. They believe him and it doesn’t matter what anyone else says.

On this phone call they told me to stop harassing the mailman and to keep my dogs inside.

I’m confused, I honestly don’t think the mailman has ever seen my dogs. I do not believe in tying dogs outside so they stay indoors except to go to the bathroom of course, which might take 5 minutes. I also have high chain link fence there as well so the dogs cannot get out. My dogs have never run free so I don’t understand how this guy could bring up the dogs at all?! It makes no sense to me to even mention the dogs except to cause trouble. When I take the dogs out I use a leash so they’re not even running free in a fenced in yard so I don’t get what the hell this guy is talking about at all!?

I’ve talked to other people about this guy and names like jerk and asshole were used by everyone to describe him, I think you get the point about this guy.

So now I’ve got something else to be worried about, am I going to get all of my mail? Is this guy going to start more problems?

I’ve got enough crap going on in my life without this too now…

 

 

 

 

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ObamaCare is a Mess

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Holy crap..  

I’m self-employed so I have to do the whole Obamacare thing and I’ve just spent more than two hours trying to apply.

The first time I got through the application and finally to picking healthcare plans and the website errors and I can’t do it. Says try again or try logging out and back in. Tried that of course, got the error over and over.   Tried their chat support and that ‘sorry you’re having difficulties, please call us’

So I called and I got this women who I could barely understand and her answer was to keep filing NEW applications until I don’t get the error.

What the hell kind of answer is that?

So I decided to call back again and maybe get someone who I could understand better and might be more helpful. Yes the women I got was very nice and very helpful and she spoke correct English but she couldn’t figure out the problem either. So we opted for filing another new application over the phone and she gets the same error as I got.

Surprise. Surprise! The only solution she can give me is to file another NEW application tomorrow and hope it works and if it doesn’t to file another new application the next day. The same answer essentially, just keep filing new applications until I don’t get the error anymore. WTF?!?

What a mess this is…..

Wife tried to apply for several days in a row now and she can’t get as far as me, site keeps giving her an error just at a different place.

The thing is that you must apply or enroll by March 1st or get fined?! So what happens if I can’t enroll because their website is so screwed up? Do I still get fined because of their incompetence? The answer to that of course is YES! They threw together that crappy website, they gave the contract to a ‘friend’ of course who obviously didn’t know what the hell they were doing.

My next question is, what happens if you can’t pay the fine?  Are they going to be putting all these people in jail? I can see the conversations now: What are you in for? Murder! What are you in for? Armed Robbery! What are you in for? Not having health care!

Yeah I don’t see where this could go wrong at all….

When I was little I was proud to be an American, proud to live in this country but not anymore. If I could I’d leave, it’s just gotten so ridiculous and the government is so corrupt. It’s not about the people anymore, it’s about the dollar. This country has just went downhill and I don’t see it getting better anytime soon.

This government was founded I thought to serve the people, but that’s not how it is anymore, it’s only there to serve itself it seems to me.

 

 

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Net Neutrality and Money Grubbing Companies

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I am so sick of all this crap we as consumers have to put up with.

Supposedly we’re a world leader, but I don’t think so unless you count corruption as something to be a world leader in.

Everything is about money and all these companies want more and more and more of it. These ISPs are bribing their way into the pockets and decisions of the government and making things work in their favor. When did legal decisions become about who can pay the most? I thought this country was built or created for the citizens and the government was supposed to make life better, but it’s just making it harder.

I’m 41 years old and in my time I’ve watched this country just go to shit. I was once proud to be an American but not anymore. If I had the money I’d leave as soon as possible, but for now I’m stuck watching this country become controlled by corporations instead of people.

Other countries in the world have faster internet than us and it’s cheaper. How the hell are they doing for their people but the companies complain they can’t because it costs too much.

Now with the net neutrality being struck down essentially they’ve given carte blanche to companies like Verizon to do what they want and charge what they want.

I have Verizon FIOS and I had Verizon DSL before that, no complaints about the internet service itself for the most part.

It’s well known that Verizon and other ISPs are throttling traffic from companies like Netflix. I’ve got 75/25 access and that’s fairly fast but yet I can’t stream HD most of the time from Netflix and I’ve given up ever watching YouTube as I seem to spend more time buffering than the length of the video I’m trying to watch. It’s just not worth the hassle.

We know Verizon has a stake in Redbox so I guess they figure screw the Netflix customers and if they want good streaming they’ll have to go to their Redbox. That’s just not fair, I pay for internet and I pay for Netflix. I pay Verizon for a service that they are not providing me because they want me to use their Redbox. Yes of course they’ll claim they’re not doing anything, but yes they are. Go to the Verizon forums and you’ll see just a ridiculous number of complaints about YouTube and Netflix streaming and then you’ll have the reps blaming the customers and then you’ll have the shills there saying they don’t have a problem. It’s just amazing that they think we don’t know what they’re doing.

I don’t want internet to turn into some crappy cable channel lineup setup. I can’t remember the last time I turned my cable box on, it’s just a whole bunch of unwanted channels. You have to subscribe to all of these channels just to get the 3 or 4 that you actually watch. My kids are the only ones that really use it and they watch I think four channels in total, but yet to get those channels we have to pay for some premium service because that’s the tier they put the channels into.

It’s not going to get better, it’s going to get worse as we the people cannot compete with companies and their deep pockets.

They’re out for money, plain and simple, and I can understand that but there is a point when it’s too much and you’re just taking advantage.

Something has to change and it’s got to begin with the government, they have to take control of this situation but the problem is they’re just as greedy as the companies. They’re happily take their money and decide or make laws or judgments or whatever in the favor of who can pay the most. It’s sickening really what has happened to this country and our government. It’s sad, just so sad really.

Whatever, not like I’m going to change anything, but I wanted to rant…