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Brian Has Trust Issues
Posted on May 25, 2010 by Ching under Web.
Brian has trust issues, specially when it comes to online interactions. He thinks I am too naive. He freaked out on me tonight because I was communicating with @Cox_Will via DM on Twitter.
@Cox_Will had asked if we wanted him to set up the premium channels on our account because they’re currently running a promotion where you can get two premium channels for free for 30 days. So I asked Brian if I could go ahead and have him call us to set it up. “You didn’t give him any of our account information did you?!” Brian barked at me and then promptly gave me a lecture on how there are scammers all over the internet and how I shouldn’t be so naive. I told him that this @Cox_Will person worked for Cox and that I remembered him messaging us on Twitter before when we had problems getting our service transferred. Brian was like, “I can set up a Twitter account and tell everyone I’m with a company and you’d believe me. I will get all of your information. If we get our identities stolen, it will be because of you.” Blah blah blah blah…
I know that to give out any information over the web. Duh?! I wasn’t even going to give out our number. My plan was to call the Cox customer service number. I just hadn’t figured out how to ask for @Cox_Will. Would the customer service representative I get on the phone know who I’m talking about?
Anyway, since Brian nixed that whole idea I’ll just let him do it. We only really need HBO and we don’t absolutely have to have it for a couple of weeks. Just need it in time for the True Blood season premiere. =P
P.S. Even though @Cox_Will‘s Twitter account isn’t a “verified” account, I was able to confirm his identity through my friend/coworker Isaac. He used to work for Cox and they knew each other from when Isaac was a supervisor over there. I don’t think that makes a difference to Brian, though.
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Happy Star Wars Week
Posted on May 5, 2010 by Ching under Web.
Many of you think of today as Cinco de Mayo. However, the clever (or dorky) guys at SHS where @chadsmith works know this week as Star Wars week.
Yesterday was Star Wars day: www.maythefourthbewithyou.com. Today is a continuation: www.revengeofthefifth.com. Kudos to SHS for the clever puns. I’m just nerdy enough to appreciate it. LOL.
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Bebot is a Rock Star
Posted on January 21, 2010 by Ching under Web.
Toyota just issued another recall. Over 2 million vehicles are affected. The models are listed below:
-RAV4 2009-2010 models
-Corolla 2009-2010 models
-Matrix 2009-2010 models
-Avalon 2005-2010 models
-Camry 2007-2010 models
-Highlander 2010 model
-Tundra 2007-2010 models
-Sequoia 2008-2010 models
Looks like Bebot dodged another recall. We bought Bebot in June 2006. Brian says we picked a good year. 🙂
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New Wireless
Posted on July 22, 2009 by Brian under Web.
We have been suffering through slow wireless for many years now. Our Wireless B was so old that it was not even capable of 128-bit encryption. I was trying to talk Ching into getting something better because we were not taking full advantage of our Internet Service capabilities, but she was not seeing it. She was instead trying to lower our Service to match our current equipment. I told her that if we upgraded our wireless then it would make our VPN’s work faster and we could work from home a lot better. Especially since she is on call with her work so often.
The other day we got lucky. Ching’s Dad e-mailed her and let her know that he had a wireless router that we could have because he was upgrading. I told Ching that this would be good because we could then speed up our wireless and get better connection speeds. She agreed and I picked up the router today after work.
After about an hour of being frustrated and calling my dad for advice I finally got the router reset and working. I had to wait for it to associate with all the proper channels but once it did it worked perfectly. I set it up like we had the other one and then grabbed my laptop to test the wireless. I was so pleased to see that my computer connected quickly and without any problem.
While I was finishing the set up on my laptop Ching messaged me and let me know she was on Google chat and wanted to Video chat with me. This was a perfect opportunity to test the new wireless and make sure that the connection was indeed faster. I was ecstatic to see that the video was crisp and almost seamless. While I was talking to Ching I decided to try out Hulu. I was very pleased when I saw that the video loaded in 480 HD without any delay and I didn’t have to pause it every few min to let the video buffer enough to watch it.
Ching said that she can not wait to get home to test the new Wireless out. I set up my work lap top and tested out the VPN. It connected immediately and I was able to down load my e-mails almost instantly. Before I had to wait almost 15 min to let Outlook connect and pull the mail from the server. This is going to make working from home so much easier for both of us. The only issue I have at the moment is that I can not seem to get Ching’s work laptop to connect and I can not figure out why. I worked on it for almost an hour before I gave up. I will work with Ching tomorrow to get it working. I know her laptop is Wireless-G capable, I checked the properties. The only thing I can think of is that her work laptop has some special security that I am not aware of that she needs to work around.
To sum it all up. I am very pleased with the performance and I hope that we can get Ching’s work laptop up and running.
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Delano Photo Walk – Group Photo
Posted on May 24, 2009 by Ching under Flickr, Things to Do, Web.
Photo above posted with Darrin‘s permission. What a great turn out!
You can find some of the pictures Brian and I took here. You can view my Delano Photo Walk set as Flickr slideshow also.
Photos taken by others:
- Ken’s photos
- Wesley’s photos (Ken’s 6 year old photography prodigy)
- Cheryl’s photos
- Justin’s photos
- Dwight’s photos at Flickr and Smug Mug
- Canon_usm’s photos
- Mdrache’s photos
- Megram’s photos
- Trbobrick’s photos
- Adam’s photos
- Sandy’s photos
- Cassie’s photos
- Andrea’s photos
- Darrin’s photos
- James’ photos
- All photos tagged “Delano Photo Walk” on Flickr
I’m sure there are other collections out there. If I have missed posting a link to yours, please feel free to add it in the comments. Thanks!
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