First and foremost, for all you blog spammers out there: cut it the hell out. I’m sick of your links, your insipid attempts to make things look “legit”, and the fact that I have to take time out of my life – time I don’t usually have – to clear your crap off my website is not amusing me. One. Bit.
I made this analogy of the problem to my parents one day:
It’s like when you come back to your car after shopping at the mall, and find that someone was kind enough to shove a menu for a new restaurant under your windshield. Only with the blog spammers, you come back to your car and find that your whole windshield is covered with menus, five or six levels deep. NOT AMUSING.
I took it a bit further, adding that the spyware and virii I’ve been dealing with at work have me on edge – if I see a PC now, I avoid it unless I have to touch it – and then I feel all dirty after. Anyway, the continued analogy…. You get back to your car, and after getting rid of a metric ton of crap from your windshield, you then find that someone has broken into your car, moved the seats and mirrors, and then taken the liberty of changing all the presets on your radio too. Dirty low life scum sucking idiots.
Second order of business: this website as you know it. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about this blog. Well, not a lot really, but it’s been a background process that’s been processing while I’m busy doing other stuff – sorta like how your computer will continue to print something even though you’ve moved on to another website. Anywho, here’s the thing: I don’t do this enough.
Add to that the other blogs I try to maintain (computerboy comes to mind, among others) and you can see that my goal of at least one post a day to at least one blog is failing. Miserably. I also have a photo album blog thing I’ve been trying to update, and the “family news” site for the family website – not super-important stuff, but it’s there, and I’m not updating it like I should – or feel I should – and it’s grating on my nerves. Or nerve – might be the last one… 
So, I’m going to embark on a tear down of this and some other sites, and re-do and integrate and mess around with and just generally break some stuff. It’s going to get bad – much worse – before it gets any better. The long-term goal is to have one site for me, one for the family, and have my site publish to some of the other sites via some tricks I have up my sleeves. I realize that no-one out there cares about this stuff, but unless I write it down, I won’t feel motivated to do anything, so what the heck, here it is. Call it a late New Years Resolution – number one in a series, collect them all.
I’ve also been checking out some other blogs lately. Sure, I’ve been doing that for years, but it’s been a while since I looked at some of the other parenting blogs, and realized just how little I blog about the kids. Part of that is a privacy concern, what with the way the world is all messed up now, but I think I might be able to get away with it. Maybe.
Another thing I noticed is that when I blog, it’s not the same as it used to be – I used to put up links throughout the day, and casual observations at the drop of a hat. Now-adays it’s these longer posts, usually after I’ve dealt with some hairy computer problem, which of course makes me NOT want to post at all. It sucks, but that’s life, right?
End transmission.
Raymond, and 
But then I get to the office and there’s good news! The new phone – a nice, shiny new phone – has arrived. A phone call, some idle chatter w/ the Verizon rep, and an activation later, and I’m playing with my new 
lee 05:33 on 2007/11/04 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Been paying our cablevision bill online for years now. Just send it from your bank — all you need to give your bank is the account number and an address. And that way you can control when it gets paid (they changed the due date on us so I make sure it’s six days late every month now. No penalty for it, so why not?)
Raymond 22:18 on 2008/05/23 Permalink | Log in to Reply
It’s May 23, 2008 approx 10:04. I had an all out conversation w/cablevision today that chimes along this complaint. I will be contacting B.B. on Monday.
I’m glad you didn’t let them run over you!
They’re trying to do that to me right now.
I’ll give you the short version: In 2002 I signed up for Cablevision service. Later that year I had to move to Florida. Had all my services terminated, gave new addresses ext.. and had the post office forward my mail. Yeah… Well I received my last bill from ConEd (forwarded to Fl/last bill received/last bill paid…thank u come again!) Same for Discover Card, same for Gas Company…great.
I move back to New York 2/28/08 call cablevision, and their first question was, have you had cable w/us before. I said “yes”…they say…r u sure, we can’t find you in our system. They ask for address, dates/years/ and finally Social Sec. #. STILL NO RECORDS…
Well, does that mean I can’t get service? “No” They say! We’ll be happy to give you the moon and stars! Yes.triple play is the deal, RIGHT??? WRONG
I get my 2nd bill and it’s 700.00 plus dollars??!!!
Yeah…
Apparently, they “FOUND” my old account and simply added it to my current account.
I haven’ heard from these people in so so many years and they told me they don’t “FORWARD” bills.
And, I have never heard of any bill collectors. I’ve pulled my credit several times over the past 5-7 years and nothing about any cable.
Last night, my cable was interupted. They told me in order to have “services restored, I must pay min of $509.00 which is “PAST DUE” from 2002????
I’m sorry what?
Yeah, I’ll be writing to the BB and Cablevision president. I even offered to make out a payment plan on this OLD OLD OLD balance and continue to pay my reg. monthly on top of it. Ms. Supervisor, stated that “Cablevision doesn’t work out payment plans!”
Can you amagine?
So, Cablevision, doesn’t forward bills, they have incompitent Bill Collectors, they initially don’t have my ‘old account’…but now they do…they add it to my NEW account and disconnect me because they want the past due of $509.00 from 2002??
Yeah…till Monday…stay tuned any advise, please email me @
Neo_32605@yahoo.com
FIGHT BACK!