Wednesday I decided to work from home part of the day and spend the other part of the day working on the house. The house really needed some work done on it. So after working for about an hour that morning I take a small break to come back and see my remote connection that died. So I was like “Oh Great”, and I go check out the dsl router and no more green lights and one flashing red one.
I thought it might be a temporary thing so I continue my day working on the house and playing a couple games. I check back after a couple of hours and still a flashy red light. So I finally decided to call AT&T and go through there level 1 no help tech support. Doing all the things I have already done, and have known about for years. I finally convince her that it wasn’t me or the equipment, but something with the line. After 45 minutes she finally gets a tech set up for the day and I was gearing up to leave work early again and come home. 15 minutes go by and I decide I better check the phone line. Yep dead too, so I call back to make sure I get a real tech out here and not just a dsl tech.
Next day [thursday] I leave work early to come home and meet the guy and shows up telling me they are running tests and will get back to me shortly. 8-10 minutes later he rings the door bell again and he proceeds to tell me that our neighbor’s plumber had cut the line and AT&T had recieved about 30 calls after mine. He advised me it might be the next morning before anything might happen. So Leslie and leave for a bit and when we get back the neighbor’s yard was all ripped up and the phone and internet was back up. Yeah!!!
I guess more people need to pay attention when doing their job to minimize other casualties.
There are quite a few of different web awards out there for specific companies, ideas, solutions, etc. But I wanted to bring up one tonight. It’s the Innovation Solutions Award for Corporate Performance Management, or cpm for short.
Here is a little blurb about the award:
This award was created to highlight elite companies who creatively implement technology solutions and the vendors who facilitate that success. These award winners demonstrated a level of technological sophistication and innovation that moved them to a higher competitive level in advancing their strategic goals.
Congrats to PROPHIX Software for winning this years award!
As a blogging enthusiast I have always had love for the world wide web. But recently all its magnitude and potential is becoming more and more clear to me. I find it increasingly hard to imagine life before people had this channel of communication, entertainment and interaction. I mean think about, is there anything you can’t do on the web? Of course there is and those things should never be forgotten. I’m just saying that there is a whole world of opportunities out there and millions of people running fantastic and inspiring websites. Instead of simply login in to your email and then scroll around on Facebook I will give you an insight on what diversity the Internet has to offer.
Chase Storms Online
Although chasing heavy weather IRL is to prefer most of us storm fanatics aren’t that lucky. So why not do it from the comfort and protection of your own home, hopefully several states away from the storm? By surfing in to the NOAA’s National Weather Service online Storm Prediction Center you can through your laptop stay updated on weather forecasts and storm alerts all hours of the day. Isn’t it great?
Buy Your Contact Lenses Online
Maybe not the most exciting function of the Internet but a great example of how far we’ve come thanks to the Web. You can buy virtually anything online nowadays; flowers to your wife, rent a DVD over the weekend or order home-delivered pizza. Services enabling you to order product like new contact lenses has become the back bone of the term easy-living. Simply click your mouse and you’ll get what you’ve ordered to your door step in a couple of days.
Tax Deadline Tomorrow - File Your Taxes Online
I mean come one! When the most uptight, bureaucratic, paper working government agency find their way onto cyber space you know we’ve come a long way. No more piles of paper, no more running to the post officer the last day. The IRS has launched an e-filing function on their website which you have to apply and get approved for in order to use. If you are amongst the lucky applicants you can say good-bye to stressful tax declaring days and hello to easy living by filing your taxes online today.
Tags: Contact Lenses, e-file, easy, internet, NOAA, Online Contacts, Online Lenses, Online Ordering, SPC, Storms, taxes
General | tazdog, April 15, 2008 12:06 am | 
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