On NYE

The thing about new years eve parties is, you see one, you've seen them all.

"The polar bears will do just fine"

I didn't say that. But a colleague did while predicting doom for environmental activism, given climategate. 

Why I hate Comcast

First off they pissed me off early this year when they repeatedly cut service because I was paying to my old account number. They had graciously changed the account number when we moved. It didn't matter that I was making payments on time every month; they took all of 4 months to get all the money I had paid them from my old account to my new account; in the mean time they cut me off every month from their service. Here was the sequence of events.

- Account due date approaches

- I just pay what is due for the current month

- They cut off service

- I call them only to be told that I had not paid 3 months of dues

- I ask the moron on the other end to check my previous account.

- This is followed by, "oh hmm.. gee sorry about that", we have now restored your service

- I get the next months bill in which there's an "account reactivation fees"! 

- I call them back and shake my fist at which point they tell me they have revoked the fees

- Repeat all of the above for the next month

For all the grief that they caused me, I cannot find another service provider in my area because the a-holes on capitol hill think it is perfectly fine for an entire industry to be made up of 3 companies that split up the country amongst themselves.  Thinking of this is one of the moments in my day where I would gladly rip a senator or congressman or woman to shreds.

Today I realized comcast took the liberty of showing me search results from yahoo for an invalid url entry - after making me wait for about 10 seconds! No points for guessing whether they asked me the permission to do that. It took me, a reasonably tekky guy, about 10 minutes to figure out how to disable the @^#%^!@*$&@ feature.

Some day, some day, I am going to stop paying those bastards for giving me so much pain.