Is it just me or do Computer Systems impact our lives in strange ways?
I just moved into a new house and wanted to give my money to the local cable company. I called three weeks before my closing date so as to get on the schedule for installation on a convenient day. The representative I talked to told me that should could not talk to me until the current residents first cancelled their service. ow I find it hard to believe that any business person would consider this a proper way to conduct business and that in fact the reason for this was that they were using a system which did not allow them to associate to names with the same address.
Not that I am any fan of the phone company, but they did not seem to have any problem with this scenario.
By the time the current resident cancelled service; I had to wait two weeks after moving in before getting service. No Internet (I am writing this on the Starbucks wireless network) and no TV.
I am so discusted that I went out and bought a DirectTV system which will be installed in only a week. That fixes the TV problem, now I just need to solve the connectivity problem (I can't afford to drink that much 'Bucks). DSL is really my only option, but the ADSL throughput sucks when I try to host XBOX games. I mean a man's gotta have hist priorities.
6:14:36 PM 
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