Category: Weblog

  • BT Rip Off Connection Charge

    Ahh, it jsut gets better. I recieved a bill from BT about a week after having my line turned on. According to BT (i managed to get thru to speak to someone after A WHOLE HOUR OF MY LIFE was wasted on hold) BT Open Reach are in charge of the phone lines, and as they are a separate part of BT, there is nothing he could do to remove the £124.99 charge they had slapped on my bill, for simply TURNING ON the phone line.

    They were in my house for 5 mins, plugged something into the wall, walked off down the street, activated it at the box at bottom of the road, came back, gave me my number, job done. Thats not worth £125 you fucking losers!

    On this bill i got, they had also signed me up for “BT Together Option 2” which includes weekend and evening calls for free. When the fuck did i tell them to sign me up to that? Answer – i didnt! They just presumed i would want it, and charged me for it!

    In total, my bill came to over £160, and i had not even plugged a phone in to make a call. Its fucking disguisting, and i feel robbed. Luckily i managed to speakt o a guy who was pretty helpful, and he has postponed the bill for a few months to give us time to save up.

    If only NTL had put fucking fiber optic cabling in my road.. then i would of NEVER had to even speak to any fucker at BT.

    In conclusion, NEVER USE BT.. if you can help it..

    They are fucking crap.

    In other news, my AOL router came today, and hopefully i can get my net working tonight, and then.. WOO! i can start spending the amount of time i really need to spend, posting on forums, and promoting the stuff me and davros are doing.

    I cant wait! 🙂

  • Moving servers, and not following suit

    I swear im a expert at this now. I have 3 more sites to move, and a few to rebuild as they were kinda dormant on the old hosting account. I have had to rebuild my gallery AGAIN.. i have put its version 20 as i must of rebuilt it from scratch about 20 times. It sure feels like i have!

    Now people that know me know that i like to be a bit different, and i don’t like to follow suit. When i first heard about facebook, i thought great, another pile of shit website that is gonna annoy me, zap my time from me, and generally be a pile of crap. Well, i caved in and signed up for it a few weeks ago, and.. i was right! It is generally a pile of shit.

    The only good thing about facebook, is the fact that such a hype was generated about it when it was launched and over the last year or so of it being open, that nearly everyone in their right mind has signed up to it.

    I got into work today, and a chap called Phillip Bates had added me to his friends list. I didnt recognise the name, so i went on about my day and didnt think anything of it. I then checked my inbox, and he has sent me a message.

    Its only a friend of mine, that i knewwhen i was EIGHT years old!! I didnt remember who he was at first, but a quick phone call to my mum confirmed who he was, and i DO remember him from over 15 years ago!

    Now, if i dont find or get in touch with anyone else through facebook, in my eyes its paid for its self already 🙂 (even though it was free)

    Thank you facebook!

  • Site Downtime, and Updates and shit

    So yeah, that photo wasnt madeleine, but the focus has been lifted from the mccans in regards WHODUNNIT, has’nt it?

    If your a visitor to my blog, you’ll notice that there has been a significant amount of downtime. This is due to GoDaddy being a bunch of arseholes. I have two dedicated servers with them now, whereas before i had one, and one shared hosting package for all the maxxd sites and this blog etc. It was a dream hosting account, it never went wrong, and there were only one or two annoyances, and they were all the type you can live with!

    It wasnt until a couple of fridays ago, when we started to get 503 Errors, saying that the service was unavailable. It was a strange error, as it looked like the server was being maxxd out. But it wasnt, as we had SHIT loads of recources for it!!

    So, i started digging about the internet, and contacting their technical support. I eventually found out that it was due to the amount of concurrent connections at any one time! Apparently on the middle choice of Shared Hosting from GoDaddy, the MAX allowed concurrent connections at any one time, was 100. And we had all of a sudden started maxxing it out?! O….k!

    So i asked the person i was speaking to at the time what would be the best way to sort it out. They told me upgrading to the top of the range shared hosting package would give me 50% more concurrent connections, and that the sites should run OK with that.

    Tried it, paid for the update, and still got the errors. Now, im not being funny, but in my personal opinion, this should of been stated when i signed up for the account. It clearly states that i can host “Unlimited Websites” on a shared hosting account, well thats a lie, isnt it godaddy. Cos too many sites = too many connections which in turn = DOWNTIME. The shared hosting packages are not suitable for anyone who is expecting a fair amount of hits to their site, in fact, they aint suitable for anyone.

    So, after much arguments, and about 3 different customer service people, i was passed on to a chap who did help me out. He registered and paid for a VDS from godaddy for me (he works there btw haha) as a way of saying sorry for the bad advice. He then liased with me a bit in regards what else i could get free for them fucking up. Along the way, i got an email saying i had been billed for the rent of my shared hosting package, that i was incorrectly advised to upgrade to. I emailed him, and asked if he could rfund that cash too. He replied and said, yeah sure.

    The next thing i no, i have no blog, no picture site, no maxxdirectory… I paniced..

    He thought what i meant was “Refund and close” the account.I was FUMING. Not only had a twat sold me “what was on the shelf” instead of what hosting account i needed, another TWAT from godaddy had deleted my entire hosting account! EVERYTHING!

    I have had to spend THREE days talking to them, teling them to hurry up, recreting DB’s so they can fill them up, and generally fuckign about, and NONE of it was my fault. I was VERY angry, but now my blog is back up im OK. In payment for such a fuckup, he[s paid the nxt month on my other server, and im gonna try and get him to do me discounted memory upgrades too.

    So in conclusion, be careful how you speak to Americans, they presume too much, and don’t really understand English. And if the hosting package you look to be buying seems too good to be true… it probably is!

    🙂

  • New Photo of Missing Madeleine? Or Hoax to take focus off mccans?

    I came back into my room this morning after having a shower, and gemma had the TV on. There was a news report on and some woman was being interviewed going on about how “She looked out of place” and was “very white with blonde hair”. I instantly thought, madeleine!

    As soon as i got to work i found a pic on the internet and tried to improve the quality of it so that the face of the little girl would become more ledgable. Unfortunately, it was near on impossible due to the way a picture of that sort is made up.

    Enhanced Photo Of Missing Madeleine Spotted IN Morocco

    Just looking at the photo (even though its poor quality) makes you instantly think that something is wrong with it. Why is a kid that is whiter than white and with blonde hair on the back of some disguised woman/man in Morocco?

    It seems that after months of nothing but speculation and accusations, that ONE piece of evidence has finally come to light that suggests maddy may be still alive!

    Or, on the flip side.. Maybe this photo (however convincing it may be) is a complete hoax, and the release of it has been totally instigated by the mccanns to take the spotlight away from them? Its a sad thing to think, but it wont be the first time that propaganda like this has been used to pull the wool over the unsuspecting publics eyes.

    Only time will tell.