I just had a warped experience with a Telus rep while cancelling my old phone.

Basically, to set this up, I decided that I wanted a new phone with specifically these features:

• Reasonably cheap monthly plan
• Good looking (as far as phones can be)
• Thin
• Bluetooth enabled (non-crippled)
• iSync capable

The last two go in hand. Needless to say, I couldn’t find anything like that with Telus but Fido had a RAZRv3 phone which pretty much fulfilled all those requirements. I’ve been using it for a few weeks now and been pretty satisfied. I can send pictures to and from the phone using Bluetooth and sync all my calendars and contacts. Yay!

Today, as I called to cancel my old Telus phone, the rep asked me for my reason and I gladly volunteered my Bluetooth requirements (so that perhaps they would see the light). His response to me was almost instantaneous: “Oh, so you want to pirate software!” I kid you not!!

I was shocked! What a weird thing to say. I proceeded to explain that there is no reason for me to pirate software onto the phone. Where would I get it? Why would I want it to have additional software? At this point, he made another statement which made me cringe. (I’m paraphrasing this one) “So you want to pirate MP3s?” … Again, shock! How would I pirate MP3s with a phone? Cause the bandwidth is so fast? I again proceeded to explain to him that IF I wanted to put MP3s onto the phone that I had ripped from CDs, that is my right. Nothing illegal about it. But why would I even do that? I have an iPod for music. Duh!

Seriously, these aren’t event credible uses of Bluetooth! I don’t understand these people. They’re fighting wind mills! I just can’t believe that a company would educate their reps this way.

Obviously I made the right decision to leave them. Not a moment too soon!

Ugh!

Well, it’s not the best case scenario but it’s not the end of the world. The fascists ended up winning power today over the thieves, commies and traitors.

I would have preferred if my commies won but ’tis okay.

Some of the things that made me happy:

• Paul Forseth lost his seat. Awesome!
• Sam Bulte (from “copyright” fame) lost. Yay!
• Libby Davies won. No surprise but always welcome.
• Hedy Fry won. She’s a pretty good MP.

I just checked my site and Wordpress wasn’t working. I was getting an “error establishing database connection”.

It’s really weird because my wp-config.php file hadn’t changed. The only thing that did is that I updated to OSX 10.4.4 and something is making Wordpress unable to connect or resolve “localhost”. I got around it by actually typing out the IP in wp-config.php (127.0.0.1). Lame!

Hopefully I’m not the only one to exerience it. I’ll have to investigate it tomorrow morning tho, cause it’s late :(

Anyway, sorry if the site was down :)

Update: This is a known problem. The Wordpress forum has a page about it.

Somebody in my building really really (really!) loves Madonna’s new CD. It’s been playing almost daily (a few times a day). I haven’t been able to determine who it is yet …

Mendocino

A few weeks ago, I went on a road trip down the west coast with my buddy Brian. We went from Vancouver to San Francisco. Some of the sites were really amazing.

Portions of the coast were foggy so it kind of sucked, but the parts that I did get to see just blew me away.

This was a short trip down, about 3 days of driving along I-5, then 101, then Highway 1. We spent a few nights in San Francisco itself and then drove back in one day along the I-5.

Next time I go, I’ll try to do it in the summer and make it a longer trip with some camping. There was a lot of stuff that I hope to see in more details.