Day In The Life of Baz

Not sure how many of you use Remember The Milk. It’s an online task manager, basically.

• Manage tasks quickly and easily.
• Get reminded, anywhere.
• Plan your time.
• Organize the way you want to.
• Work together to get things done.
• Add tasks wherever you are.
• Take your tasks with you.
• Search your tasks the smart way.
• Locate your tasks.
• Enjoy getting organized.

Now there are a lot of features on this time, but I don’t use it a 1/4 of its full potential. All I use it for is for daily (weekdaily mainly) tasks. Since I have an unlimited text message and SMS plan with my cell phone service provider, I have it forward all my tasks to my cell phone. The main one of these tasks is our daily status meeting. Although I have it set up on Outlook at work, I just need that vibrating reminder so that I can get off my butt and head over to the meeting.

Everything has been going great except for this whole Day Light Savings Time thing. Since we’ve hit it three weeks early this year, all the dates were screwed up.

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I came straight over from millionster.com who has a horror story about 1and1 hosting , which would easily qualify for any Dean Koontz novel. Reading it makes you want to cringe, it sure made me want to.

What I Hate

There are things that I don’t like about 1and1:

1. They give you these cryptic logins for your MySQL account and for your FTP username.
2. They host MySQL databases on different servers, so all your PHP scripts that naturally go to localhost will have to have something else defined.
3. There is no statistics package installed. Now AwStats or anything and you don’t have access to the logs so you can’t install your own.
4. And they are shared, and shared hosts in general usually suck.

What I Like

There are a few things I like about them:

1. They’re cheap
2. They’re low priced
3. They’re inexpensive
4. They allow multiple domains.

Looks like we have a tie: 4-4 :-). But seriously, 1and1 hasn’t given me much of a problem since I’ve signed up to them about 7 months ago. I just renewed my subscription and purchased two new domains from them.

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Easter was great. I went out of town, went to see Lava, and joined in in a great party. I used my latest driving technique to get the most out of the gas in my tank, but I did one thing wrong. I left a small town and went back to the city without filling up before I left. It’s not that I was worried about running out of gas, because I tend to squeeze a lot out of a gallon of gas by altering my driving methods. The problem was that, when I got home, the cheapest gas I could find anywhere was 10 cents more expensive that it was where I had left.

I didn’t take my own advice of filling the tank more often and now I’m paying for it. At $2.69, I’m ready to break out my bicycle and pedal my butt to work.

Popularity: 9%

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After looking at Lava and her new domain, I decided to take the big jump to. Also, after going through the process once, this time it only took me about 15 minutes.

So here we are, brand new at LifeOfBaz.com

Popularity: 10%

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I moved into my new apartment on January 11th, and I was yet to receive that Rent.com $100 reward they offer.

Now from my understanding, how this works is that you find the apartment on Rent.com then inform your apartment complex that you’ve found it on Rent.com. When you do move into your apartment, you go to the website and fill out the form saying that you’re all moved in. After a number of weeks, Rent.com contacts your apartment complex ask how you found them. Now they’re supposed to look at the file and say “Rent.com of course”. But that doesn’t always happen. Sometimes they don’t get the file. Sometimes they’re too busy. Sometimes they just don’t care. I’m not sure what exactly happened in my case.

After waiting a while, I called up Rent.com and was asked “what’s up”. They informed me that they were waiting on a return call from my complex. Fat chance that they were ever going to get that. So when I was just about to ask “what are my options” she said “we’ll just go ahead and send out that card to you”. Wow!!!

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