Racialicious
Posted by Steve | Filed under General
So all this Obama For President talk on the forums I read online seems to have opened up the racial divide in this country even further. Yes, I am voting for Obama despite the fact that a year ago I was convinced that a black candidate with a name like his would not win the Southern vote in my lifetime. Mine is as much as a vote against Hillary as it is a vote for him.
I think he messed up big time by not distancing himself from this preacher when the campaign first started. It’s stupid to leave these things hidden so they can come out in the last few weeks of the voting. I think he’s really scaring people off who think he believes the crap that guy was saying…and maybe he does to an extent. I did meet a black woman last year who was 100% convinced there was a cure for AIDS somewhere in Belgium but they were hiding it to kill off more blacks. I’ve never been big on conspiracy theories personally and I don’t think The Man is keeping us down, although I do love to joke about it.
Anyway, I’m getting off track. There was an entire thread discussing whether white people will be a minority by the year 2050 if the borders stay as open as they are now. The conversation bordered on the ridiculous. Let’s get something straight, people. Just because your percentage falls below 50% does not make you a minority all of a sudden. Let’s say Caucasians drop to 45% while Hispanics are 25%, blacks 20% and the rest Asian/Native Americans. Until there is another single group larger than you YOU ARE NOT A MINORITY. Get it? Got it? Good!
1and1 = Zero!
Posted by Steve | Filed under General
About a year ago we decided to outsource our web site in addition to Exchange services. We had been running it on a server in our office but our building’s power supply left a lot to be desired.
Once they told us they would be doing some maintenance over the weekend. What they didn’t tell us was that power would be off for an hour, far exceeding the capacity of our UPS systems. Not only was our website down but people couldn’t work from home until I realized the problem and went in to fix it. The people that run the cafe downstairs were even more upset. They had a lot of food go bad since the refrigerators were off.
On the advice of a friend I made the switch to 1and1.com. We have a tricky setup in that our domain is registered by one company, another company handles DNS, and yet another handles Exchange services. I did not want to transfer DNS control to 1and1. This didn’t seem like a problem since they have a spot in the control panel to plug in your own DNS. In fact things worked quite well for months.
This past November we switched our phone system to VOIP, which involved getting a T-1 line to replace our DSL connection. This also meant moving our DNS services since our ISP provided that service for us up to then. Unfortunately this is where things went south with 1and1.
They started sending me emails that said the following:
It has come to our attention that the name server settings for
bristolassoc.com are incorrectly set to:
DNS1: ns0.dnsmadeeasy.com
DNS2: ns1.dnsmadeeasy.com
DNS3: ns2.dnsmadeeasy.com
DNS4: ns3.dnsmadeeasy.com
With these settings neither your website nor your e-mails can be reached reliably via the mycompany.com domain.
For the domain to work properly please make sure that following name servers are set:
DNS1: ns0.dnsmadeeasy.com
DNS2: ns1.dnsmadeeasy.com
Ohhhhhh-kay. They’re telling me to set my nameservers to what they already are. What to do? Well I did the logical thing which was nothing. WRONG ANSWER! After ignoring the emails telling me to do nothing for two weeks 1and1 actually removed our website automatically. I put it back up only to get the same emails again. Every time I called tech support I got a different answer for why it was removed. Tech support is in Singapore which was another problem. I’m sure the country of Singapore has contributed many wonderful things to the world despite the fact that they outlawed chewing gum, but I still don’t want to speak to any Singaporians/Singapornos/Singapornites/whatthefuckevers when I need help. They spoke English but without common sense. There was nothing I could to make them understand what I was saying. They ended up taking our site down three separate times before I finally said enough is enough.
Bottom line is I switched the web site to Intermedia and they have been spot on ever since. 1and1….I hope a meteor hits all your data centers at the same time. The most useless excuse of a company ever.
My Roommate got Office Spaced
Posted by Steve | Filed under Uncategorized
She’s always been somewhat difficult to get along with. She’s had four previous jobs since I’ve known her and she’s left every one of them because there was somebody she just couldn’t get along with. Some jobs she quit, some she was let go from but always because of a conflict with someone. It’s never a performance issue because she’s a very hard worker.
She’s like that fairy tale where the princess can feel a pea under 15 mattresses stacked on top of each other. She just has no tolerance for any sort of discomfort whatsoever. As for me if I don’t like somebody I work with I just avoid them or keep my interaction with them efficient and as minimal as possible. She can’t do that. If she doesn’t like someone she has to tell somebody about it…and usually I’m the one she tells.
Now at her current job she’s been moved downstairs away from the other administrative dept people. She’s now sharing an office one other lady nobody can stand to be around, which is probably why she got moved down there to begin with. She’s now threatening to quit if they don’t move her somewhere else. That’s probably what they want. I call it being Office Spaced because in the movie Office Space that one fat guy kept getting his office moved until he was finally in a closet or something.
