Looking at my referral logs and found this despicable software. Nothing like a company that survives by spamming blogs. You guys suck and I can only hope your company fails miserably, leaving you deep in debt. Unfortunately I'm guessing there are lots of fellow scumbags out there that who are eating up your vile spamming tool.
What? These guys can't say this can they?
It's quite refreshing to see somebody on the inside calling the drug war what it really is; unproductive, costly and misguided. Unfortunately I don't see the end of this money pit coming anytime soon. Wake up America, this is just another example of your government wasting your tax dollars.
I came across Cassette Jam '05 probably a month ago now. I found this quite interesting (Project C-90) because I have a pretty extensive collection of tapes. And quite a few of those I've found in this collection. I used to marvel at every new design that came about and spend endless hours testing different formulations. Depending on the music, a certain specific formulation may make it sound that much better.
I have a lot of TDK's (my favorite) and Maxell's, but the coolest looking was always the TEAC with the "open reel" look. I had one with a different tape formulation, but it looked exactly like the TEAC Cobalt 52 you see here. I've heard better tape, but this one was the coolest looking of the bunch.
And here is yet another example of the pitfalls that occur when you don't host your own blog. You get Big Brother censorship with no recourse.
This is just one of the reasons I —and you should, host your own blog. The only one that can tell you what you can and can't link to are the voices in your head. Want to take back control of your own thoughts? Then I'd recommend you bounce on over to PolarBlog and exercise your freedom. (Yeah I'm biased, but why should I plug anyone else's work over my own?)
This isn't what I intended to do this morning, but the pinheads at LocalNet made the decision for me…
So now that I've completed The Quest for DSL, I cancelled my very pathetic dial-up access via LocalNet. Actually at this point I should say "I attempted to cancel…" because these asshats who call themselves an ISP can't even accept a cancellation via the internet! Of course they were more than willing to sign me up over the internet without any problems, God forbid you should want to cancel. Nope, we wouldn't want to make that easy.
After getting my DSL working the other day I went to their website and sent the following message to their "Customer (We Don't) Care" department:
Please cancel my dialup access effective 1/1/2006. If you need to contact me further please send it to kevinp AT polarlava.com as I've never used the localnet email account.
Regards,
Kevin L. Papendick
And in return I received the following reply this morning:
Dear LocalNet Customer,
Cancellations can be accepted only by written confirmation through a letter or fax.
Please include the account holders name, LocalNet Username, reason for canceling, and the signature of the account holder.
Letters can be mailed to:
LocalNet Corp
287 Commerce Drive
Amherst, NY
14228
Faxes can be sent to:
716-210-1052
All accounts are deactivated at the end of their current month of service.
Thank you,
LocalNet Customer Service
1-888-488-7265
Hours:
Monday through Friday: 8:00 AM - 1:00 AM (EST)
Saturday & Sunday: 8:30 AM - 8:00 PM (EST)
What?! I can signup and cancel web hosting with companies all across the country, but I can't cancel my ISP that's only a few miles away? Like I said, "asshats".
So in order to put this nightmare behind me I've sent them a letter as requested including all the problems I experienced with disconnects and non-responding connections. So if you're doing research on LocalNet - A crappy little ISP you never want to use, consider yourself warned.
If you're still interested and looking for more, you can read more LocalNet horror stories.
