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Comcast’s Email Sucks

Carl — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:21:38 +0000

Comcast’s email service really really sucks. Some legit emails about transferring a domain have taken over a week to arrive in my email box and when they finally did arrive they showed up in the spam folder which I had to practically jump through hoops to find.

As a test I’ve sent some emails to myself and they have yet to arrive and it’s been about a week. Nothing about them being rejected either. It would be nice to know these things. because I host my brother’s business website. They don’t use me for email but if they did it could potentially be costing them business.

I also find sending email through them to be unreliable. half the time when I go to send email through my comcast account I cannot even log in.

Their new webmail is painfully slow and ugly. That’s just my opinion though and I was never really a fan of webmail.

As much as I complain about their email I cannot complain at all about their high speed internet service. It’s really pretty rare to have any issues with the connection and if I do it’s usually resolved within a few minutes.

Work Hard and Ignore Quick Fixes

Carl — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 04:29:04 +0000

Something I find sad and depressing at the same time is the sheer amount of useless contraptions and fad diets out there that people use to lose weight. The common words in the ads for such thing are “six pack”, toned, ripped.

Really People all it takes is a little hard work and you can do it too! It will take more than 2 minutes a day and no you can’t eat big sized happy meals every day but if you just do the work and eat better you’ll end up healthier and happier.

I’m not saying everyone should give up the crappy food you enjoy but you could cut back on it a lot and still have it once in a while and enjoy it.

I know I’ve lost weight and certainly feel better when going to the gym which I am unfortunately not doing so much lately for another reason but once that issue is dealt with I am truly looking forward to getting back into it.

It’s really just like anything else in life though to lose weight. There is no quick fix that will work. It’s just about making better choices and working hard.

Christ is Already Out of Christmas.

Carl — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:33:38 +0000

One thing I find interesting about Christians is how they are so quick to get up in arms over attacks on Jesus or religion or worst yet is when they get all bent out of shape about myths of taking “Christ” out of Christmas. I understand they have their beliefs and they should stand up for what they
believe in but its is odd how they don’t care about the blatant commercialization of Christmas.

I am not a christian myself or even religious in any way for that matter but I find it hard to believe that Jesus if he were to exist would want people to go spending money they don’t have to buy material things to give to someone. Why do the outspoken Christians attack this rather than people who just simply have different beliefs than they do?

I’m sorry but I think that Christ should be taken out of Christmas if Jesus is as they seem to think he is since it goes against who he was and what he did.

I Will Not Pay More to Read Content Online

Carl — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 14:00:13 +0000

So our local newspaper has decided that they want me to pay a few dollars to read more than 15 articles online. To me this would be fine if I didn’t already pay to have it delivered. Why should I have to pay extra to read it online on a page loaded with ads? I don’t read the print version myself because of the small print not working with my eyesight. The truth of the matter is I would have canceled the subscription long ago if my girlfriend didn’t read it.

I understand they are a business and their goal is to make money. If they want to make money from me they need to give me something worth paying for and not the poorly written error filled stuff they publish. Also I would prefer it to be politically neutral. If I wanted “conservative” news I would turn on faux news. I expect facts in news so I could make my own educated decisions. I am able to make educated decisions and don’t need someone to tell me what’s right.

Wishing Stores Would Quit Asking if I Would Like to Donate a Dollar

Carl — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:03:41 +0000

I really loathe when stores have their cashiers ask if I would like to donate a dollar to such and such charity. The answer will remain no mainly because I am not able to at this time. The other reason the answer will always be no is because if I had the means and wanted to donate to a a charity I would have already done so.

Stop begging for my email address!

Carl — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:32:35 +0000

It seems to be far too common for websites to have a pop up begging for my
email address these days. If I come to a website that has a pop up begging for
my email address that covers the actual content I am trying to read I leave the
site imediately and do my best to never return again.

Enjoying Phillies baseball again

Carl — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:36:14 +0000

Back a couple of years ago I started getting interest in baseball again. Now I am really enjoying it probably more than I did as a kid. The games seem to go much faster with less screwing around between pitches. It also helps that the Phillies are doing extremely well and one can never write off a game when they’re behind.

Google Claims They are Cracking Down on Spam

Carl — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:21:51 +0000

Google says they are cracking down on spam. That would be nice as their results have not been very good recently. Almost every search has crappy results from the same sites such as ehow and yahoo answers. There’s also the useless sites that want you to jump through hoops to get the answers to your questions and of course the answers are stolen.

Google says they’re doing something about it but we’ll see. They’ve gone too long with no real competition so they did just enough to get by or wasted time adding pointless “features” like the page preview thing.

I think I’m personally going to look at other search engines to see if it’s any easier to find what I am actually searching for rather than the spammy crap.

Pointless Use of Flash

Carl — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:10:57 +0000

A few minutes ago I looked up a local pizza shop’s website to see if they deliver. What a train wreck that site is! First things first it’s flash only. Their is a little animation.. Basically the shops name moves up on the screen then a graphic shows up. I only turned flash on to see how poorly done the site was.

The text is small and it’s only got a menu for the types of food. The text for the menu is smallish green text on a whitish back-round with the back-round image blended into that. Pretty poor contrast IMO. I need to use a magnifier to see it.

When you click on something it again animates with tiny next on a green back-round for the foods in that category. This text I struggle to read with a magnifier. Guess who won’t be getting my business.

It’s really disappointing to see this type of crappy website still around. Especially for a small business where every customer might count and they are making it harder on them.

Sadly the site designer of course has a link to his site at the bottom. If I were them I’d delete that link out of embarrassment.

Learning New Things

Carl — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:32:12 +0000

I hear people say they can’t do something far too often. This reminds me of a teacher in middle school who used to say there’s no such thing as can’t. It’s either you don’t know how to do something or you don’t want to do something. This has always stuck with me and for most things I believe it is true.

I think most of the time is people don’t want to do something. People are afraid to leave their comfort zone and do anything new. Sure they may fail but then that just gives an excuse to try again. I look forward to trying new things. I admit that I’ve been guilty of not wanting to do things. I want to change that.

Try to do something new this year. Learn something new and challenge yourself rather than just saying you can’t. I know it won’t be this year but I’d like to learn rock climbing. I still want to learn to speak German to and am thinking about getting back into that. I’d also love to learn other languages at some point in my life.