FedEx delivered my modem. I got the box, opened it to make sure it was in fact the modem, then slapped the return FedEx label and dropped it off at the FedEx terminal.

Last week, on the day I received my Mac Mini, I trekked over to an Apple Store and picked one up. Since the Mac Mini doesn't come with a modem, and you really need something to connect to the internet, I had to have one.

So right now my old Dell, the one that had the hard drive crash back in December, then started to work again, albeit slowly, now sits in the corner, alone, disused.

And my Grape iMac, the trusty old computer that I nearly killed a few years ago, sits next to it, wondering why it's being neglected. After all, it still works fine. Slow, but fine. I was using it constantly up 'till a few days ago.

But, my dear Grape iMac, you've seen better days.

If FedEx makes a mistake (like sending a ground package across the country when it only has to go a couple states away) they will not do anything to get the package to you faster.

Usually if a company makes a mistake, they will try to fix it to make the customer happy.

Not with FedEx.

So they have no problem if a package takes two weeks to go 800 miles.

They will not take a package that they misdirected and ship it by air, since apparently FedEx Ground and FedEx Air are two separate entities that can't talk to each other.

FedEx doesn't care about you.

At 3:40 this afternoon FedEx attempted to deliver my Mac Mini.

At 3:40 this afternoon I was at home.

Not only was I at home, but I had the Signed Release Form outside my door saying it was okay to leave the package if I wasn't there.

But I was there.

In fact, about that time, I was outside. In plain site of the driveway.

No FedEx truck drove up.

Or by.

I'm seriously starting to have doubts about that company.

last week I ordered a new mac mini and a modem* from Apple. Apple, of course, sent each out separately. The modem the day before the computer.

I checked the FedEx tracking website tonight to see where the modem currently was. And I was shocked at the answer.

Now, the modem was shipped from Sacramento, California and was heading to Burlington, Washington. Straight up Interstate 5. I've driven that route many, many times. It's pretty straight forward.

Apparently my modem is in Lewisberry, Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania.

That's nowhere near Interstate 5.

So NBC canceled The Black Donnellys. That in itself wasn't really dumb. What is dumb is canceling it before new episodes of Heroes come on as a lead in. Instead, when Heroes returns, that show will be the lead in to The Real Wedding Crashers.

Heroes fans aren't the target audience of Wedding Crashers. Black Donnelly fans the audence from Heroes.

Stupid.

One thing I hate in blogdom are those 'contextual' ads. These are the ads that, when you're browsing a webpage you'll see a word or two double underlines. You hover your mouse over one of those words and an ad pops up.

I hate those things. They are one of the most annoying things on the 'net right now. (I wonder if there's a Contextual Ad Blocker plugin for Firefox?) I will avoid blogs/sites that have them. I used to post a lot on OpenSourceCMS.com until they added those damn things, not I only go by every once in a while.

I bring all this up because a few days ago I was at the aforementioned site reading a forum post when I saw the word 'bananas' double underlined.

Bananas? Someone sells bananas online? There's actually a contextual ad market for bananas?

Sure enough.

My cat has come up with an annoying habit. (Well, another one.)

When he jumps on my desk, like he just did, he'll go and rub his whiskers against my coffee cup. Now, I'm not sure why he wants to claim the cup as his own (as the rubbing is supposed to represent) since 1: he doesn't drink coffee, and 2: he doesn't drink out of cups.

And the only thing this results in is little hairs floating around a perfectly good cup of coffee.

But what annoys me thee most is that in the seven or so years he's owned me, he has never once rubbed his whiskers against me to claim me as his own.

If you've been following my trials and tribulations regarding my Dell computer, you'd know that it crashed in December of '06. (If you don't, click on Dell or computer up above next to the yellow star for the posts on it.)

Yesterday I accidently turned it on. It was sitting on the floor next to the other Dell that I'm using all plugged in and ready to go. I turned on the other Dell seconds later. And they both started were ready to go at about the same time.

Here's a post about the new Krispy Kreme 'healthy' donut they're marketing.

And the lies around it.

Interesting read.

read posts like these.

Seriously, though, to get good at any php script (or anything for that matter) just play with it. You learn by breaking things - or, rather, by fixing things you broke.

Those two posts linked above can be applied to any content management system/blog. So calling it a tip is really lame.

(Much like this post.)