Category Archives: things that piss me off

iTunes won’t sync my apps anymore

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I haven’t synced my iPhone 4s in quite a while so I decided to do it on Monday, (1/21/2013). iTunes needed to be updated, so I let that run first, and once it was finished, I started the sync. I was watching an online video when the sync started so I was a bit distracted, but still, I knew the sync went WAY to quickly. So I decided to do it again, and again the sync finished very quickly. When I tried to navigate around the iTunes app, I had a hard time, because they’ve changed things up quite a bit. In the end, I managed to get to the computer’s apps, and lo-and-behold 93 apps needed to be updated. Which meant they WEREN’T syncing with my phone like it used to. After 20 frustrating minutes I finally figured out how to make it work.

Navigate to Devices, choose your phone, then ‘Transfer Purchases’ or hit ‘control-s’ to bring back the side bar that iTunes USED to have choose your phone and right click to get to the ‘Transfer Purchases’ selection. That makes the updated apps from your phone transfer to your computer. That is it MAY work if iTunes decides your phone is actually connected. For some reason my iTunes keeps disconnecting the phone so it doesn’t show up in my device list. I got around it by unplugging the phone from the computer and re-connecting it. I have NO idea why iTunes keeps doing this. I haven’t figured that problem out yet. If you do let me know.

Phone: iPhone 4s with iOS 6.0.1

iTunes: 11.0.1.12

Colds suck ass

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As everyone knows, colds just simply suck ass but are a part of life. Well after a week of Christmas traveling we got home and THE VERY NEXT DAY, I come down with something. Throat is sore as hell can hardly sleep at night because swallowing HURTS. After a couple of days I decided to go to the local MEA and get checked out. They gave me a shot and a prescription. Hopefully I’ll be fine by Monday.

THIS IS NOT THE WAY I WANTED AN EXTRA 3 DAYS OFF WORK DAMMIT!

Feel like shit, don’t wanna do shit. I mostly just sit and watch TV. I DON’T LIKE TV!

Thanks for guaranteeing I cut the cord Comcast

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So on Tuesday morning my cable goes out. I have the triple play plan and when the cable goes so does my phone and my internet. Yay! NOTHING IS WORKING.

Like most of the people on the planet I work for a living, so I call Comcast once I get to work on my cell phone. The lady on the other end is nice but she wants my social security number(or the last 4 digits of it) as my security password because I’m NOT calling from my home phone(its out remember). I give it to her and apparently Comcast has the WRONG info in their system. I don’t know what number they have but it ISN’T my ssn. I get past this by giving them my account number. I have my old bills at work so I had the number handy. First crisis avoided.Second crisis ends the call with NOTHING done. Apparently she won’t send out a technician unless I fiddle with the cable, which I cannot do because I AM NOT HOME! Great! So the wife is at home I have HER call them and give her the account number because she’ll need it too. They have her do some things, which freaks her out, because as far as she’s concerned anything more advance than a rotary phone is voodoo death magic.

After her jiggling of cables fails to get any results they tell her they will forward our ticket to the local dispatchers and they should call us back within 2 hours. They are given my wife’s cell phone number AND mine. THEY NEVER CALL.

Wife calls the 800 number AGAIN. They are very nice, look up the ticket, see that the locals have scheduled a technician to show up on MONDAY. 5 DAYS LATER! Might also want to mention that would be Christmas EVE for crying out loud. The wife informs the nice 800 operator that we won’t be home on Monday. They cancel the ticket and escalate it. They tell her the local dispatchers should call within one (1) hour. As of Thursday at 10:30 THEY STILL HAVEN’T CALLED!

Apparently the local Comcast group is so busy or incompetent they won’t even bother to CALL their customers to let them know whats going on, AND they expect us to wait at least 5 days with NO INTERNET, NO CABLE, and NO PHONE! I find this intolerable.

The wife and I will be out of town the last 2 weeks of the year. We get back on the 1st. The wife is trying to make sure a technician shows up on Jan. 2nd. I’ve decided that even if that technician shows up, I’m cutting the cord on my cable. I’ve been thinking about cutting the cord anyway, and this episode has pushed me over the edge. The wife pretty much only watches the ‘big 4′, the cut won’t hurt her. It’ll hurt me, because I lose my time waster channels like Cartoon network, History and Science channels. I also lose the only reason I HAVE cable in the first place ESPN. I’ve decided that ESPN (and college football) just isn’t worth $1500-$1800 a year. I’ll just pocket that money, set up as good a digital antenna as I can and stream stuff I really want that I can’t get over the air.

Oh, and when I stream stuff, it’ll be from AT&T even if it’s DSL. Comcast doesn’t get any more of my money for a LONG time.

 

UPDATE: Lesson learned. When you deal with Comcast do it through Twitter.

24 hours after multiple 1-800 calls I’m simply pissed.

3 Hours after my complaint hit twitter, I’ve got my cable back, an apology from ‘corporate’ and a $20 credit on my bill. Also, I’m a lot less pissed at Comcast so well done ComcastCares guys and gals.

Generic Election Post, Plus a BIG BITCH about my precinct’s voting machines.

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Generic part,

I’ve voted. Have you? If you haven’t get out there and vote slacker!

The Bitch,

My voting precinct’s voting machines should NEVER have been purchased or allowed as a voting device ANYWHERE. Not because they are hard to use, they aren’t. Not because they confuse users, they don’t. No, they should NEVER have been even considered as a voting machine for one SIMPLE reason. YOU HAVE NO WAY OF ASSURING A PERSONS VOTE!

They have no paper receipt. If someone has set up the machine to flip every 3rd vote for one candidate or another THERE IS NO WAY TO TELL! If the machine display shows you voted for Candidate X, it could have recorded a vote for Candidate Y AND YOU’D NEVER KNOW!  Without paper receipts to act as a permanent record to be compared by the voter to their selection and that can be used in the event of a recount the machine is BOGUS!

This is NOT ACCEPTABLE!

I’m surprised this hasn’t been taken to court yet. For a voting machine to even be considered it must at minimum have some way to keep a PAPER TRAIL of votes, otherwise it’s nothing. You might as well ‘trust’ your local snakeoil salesman to pick the winner.

Do liars actually get punished in the news media?

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Today Paul Krugman calls out Niall Ferguson for basically out right lying in Newsweek. I’ve seen Krugman do this several times in the last couple of years. Apparently he’s getting kind of tired of people lying to support their politics instead of using actual arguments or real numbers. The question I have is, does anyone care? I’ve not heard of any repercussions for any of the people that have put  lies into the national media that  Krugman has pointed out.

 

Edit: James Fallows takes Ferguson to task as well. Going so far as to title his topic as “As a Harvard Alum, I Apologize”.

2nd Edit: Mark Thoma at Economist’s View hates the lack of accountability, and quotes Ezra Klein’s noting that Ferguson’s response to Krugman is basically “I didn’t lie, I simply intentionally tried to deceive my readers”.

3rd Edit: Brad DeLong suggests, “Fire his ass“.