However I’d like to issue a warning to all Male’s who may be considering Rainbow Light, Just Once, Men’s One Multivitamin. It tastes awful! Now I know all vitamins taste awful but you know how when you smell something you can associate it with a taste (and vs.), well this vitamin tastes like DOG FOOD! I kid you not.

I expressed this perplexing issue to my wife to which she replied “well I guess men are like dogs”! — I took artistic liberty with that!

When I walked into the AT&T store the lady who handled my problem was very kind but a total idiot when it came to customer service. After explaining my issues to her (very nicely) she responded with, “Well I’m not the Internet”.

Me: “Well duh sweetheart” was all I could eek out. I’m not talking about the “Internet” in general! I’m talking about AT&T.

So Dear Massive Corporation (AT&T, ToysRUs, etc),

I think it’s about time you educate your employees that even if they have nothing to do with your online or offline deals, they represent your company. When I go to an AT&T store I’m expecting to talk to someone who can represent your company in a courteous, factual, understandable and helpful manner. I understand that the deals that you can get online aren’t the same as at your store, but instead of talking to me like I don’t know what the hell I’m doing, why don’t you just try to help me out instead of denying your connections?

Sincerely,

An average everyday customer.

In other news I’m working daily on a number of projects one of which is JP Roth’s awesome website for her up and coming Ancient Dreams series. It’s being built on Pressflow and should be launched before Thanksgiving. Stay tuned!

Then took the other, as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
two roads diverged in a wood, and I –
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

On the other side of the spectrum, when I was in Seattle for SMX Advanced, I had some great curry at a small Thai restaurant called Buddha Bell – not far from Bell Harbor International Conference Center. Highly recommended.

Apparently version 1 of Glubble didn’t do this too effectively and I’m thankful that my experience came with v2. So far I have to say it’s done exactly what I want it to do. I can even see if my kid attempts to access a site they aren’t allowed to. If I want them to be able to access it I can easily enable it from my computer using the Glubble website. Not too bad.

I think what would be best is a free program that you didn’t have to make an account to run. But since there’s nothing out there with that spec, Glubble will just have to do.

I highly recommend the program to any parent who has a kid computer and wants to restrict access to the web. If you do use it, be sure to remove all shortcuts from the menu and desktop to Internet Explorer or other browsers. Eventually your kid will grow up and find their way around it. And when my daughter hits that stage … well I guess I’ll have to firewall her outgoing connections.

X Bedlam

They’ve got a 1 page website & a myspace. Check it out!

http://ventureforlife.blogspot.com/2009/02/alive.html