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More Comcast Stuff
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Yesterday, a Dave from Comcast called and left me a message. I am assuming it is to further discuss what happened last week, as he just asked me to call him back, I am not sure. But I have called him back. On another couple of notes, 1. I got the email I attached to this, showing their new Chill service. I found it funny as it is only available on Win 2K and XP, and yet they show a Mac G4 notebook in the ad. Funny, another point on how they just don’t get it. And while, yes I a understand a non-techie may not notice, if you own a Mac, you notice because they show you the service on a machine like yours, and yours can’t run it. Just a funny thing. The second thing is something they are doing, possibly too well. Last week during this outage, I also couldn’t log in, probably mistyped my password too many times, so I reset it it. At this point I have received no less than 7 emails and 5 snail mail letters, notifing me that I have changed my password. I can tell you, if they are so cash strapped that they need to keep raising our rates they could saves tons of money by just sending one snail mail letter notifying me that I changed my password. For just me that may not be much, but if they do that for all of their customers it could go to the hundred of thousands of dollars in postage. Just an idea. Thanks for keeping on top of it though, and it is much better than most of your other standards, and the way to err, in favor of the customer instead of yourself Comcast. You get enough bad word of mouth, as I can attest from the emails I have gotten in response to my blog.
Another Day
Baby Doppler Heartbeat(not B/C, generic)
The other day, Tuesday, Squish and I went to Dr. Ufberg’s office for her second visit. I like him, quite positive and still able to give you the what-ifs. I have found usually the positive Docs choose to forgo the what ifs until they become a reality. I just like knowing what could happen, but dwelling on the good that has actually happened. So I find Dr. Ufberg great. After some probing with the Doppler, we got to hear B/C’s heart whoosh-whoosh. Squish cried, I smiled. Doc told us it was a rate of 160, which according to the old wives tale, means a girl, so B it is. Still smiling. We really don’t care what it is as long as its healthy. I still tell Squish its going to be a monkey, still want a monkey.
As most of you know I am usually a Mac user. And recently I have noticed that my MacBook Pro has been acting funky. So last night I decided that I would back it up, and do the reformat and reinstall of Leopard. That is usually an easy thing. Just boot up the Carbon Copy Cloner and do a full, fresh back up overnight, and then the following day while working have it reinstall and restore my mac. So far the back up worked well, as far as I can tell, I can boot from that HD so I am trusting it. It does what I call a file for file backup not the vault back up that so many back up programs do. So I can actually browse my files and see that they are there, which I prefer since I have done the other and found that it wasn’t a good back up only when I try to restore. And take it from me that sucks worse than Comcast customer service. What’s worse is when I rebooted, my Vista side booted and realized it needed to update 12 things, so I let it do it, and it seems to have worked, although I haven’t really done anything with it, other than play games, its what windows is worth. Thank God it didn’t give me the usual, you have changed you computer we need to reactivate…not valid please call India for help, note I usually get for no reason, but thats a whole other rant. Anyway, I booted up to my leopard DVD, here at the office, and and it got thru about 3/4’s of the install and crashed. I took the DVD out, cleaned it and tried again, no such luck. Luckily I have access to other copies here, so we are trying again with another DVD, wish me luck.
