Things That Just Piss Me Off

I’ve used a lot of payment processors online in various business ventures. I have never seen a worse payment processor than Moneybookers. Some people really just do not have a clue about how to operate a business.

If someone sends you a payment request through moneybookers, it takes no less than 30 minutes to send them that payment. I can do it through paypal or google checkout in a click.

Moneybookers first sends you an email to let you know someone is requesting a payment. In that email, there is no clickable link. They tell you to copy and paste a url into your browser to get to their website. What is this? AOL of the 90s coming back to haunt us?

Then when you finally get to their website, you must register with them in order to fulfill the payment request.

Then you give moneybookers your credit card info so you can make the payment. Easy right? Wait! Now you have to go to your credit card statement and hope the transaction processed already because moneybookers has made a charge to your card and you need to verify the amount they charged you before you can make the original payment request you went to moneybookers to do in the first place.

Let’s just say the transaction does show up right away and you don’t have to call your credit card company to find out what the moneybookers deposit was.

Now you are ready to make that payment through moneybookers right? You need to verify your birthdate before you can complete the transaction. In the US we enter our birthdate by month, day, year. If you did this while setting up the account then you likely have the wrong birthdate entered because they like it day/month/year instead.

So to verify the transaction for “security” purposes you have to enter the wrong birthdate again.

To top it all off, moneybookers also asks your client if they want to put the money into escrow instead of sending the full payment. Let’s say you already sold the product or service and the payment is supposed to be in advance as discussed with the client. Moneybookers wants them to reconsider it again because they make more money if escrow is used. Thanks moneybookers.

I left a penny in my moneybookers account because they need it to help pay for someone that knows how to set up a system properly. I’m setting up the moneybookers rescue the idiots fund right now and ask that everyone reading this post send moneybookers a penny so they can hire someone to replace the idiots that built their system. I urge you all to send that penny and rescue these moneybooker idiots today!

I manage a lot of blogs for companies. Some of them come to me and their website is on godaddy hosting. I have to tell them that godaddy hosting is the worst place for their blog. Why?

One of the most important things to do for a blog that will help you with seo is to use a custom permalink structure. In order to do so, you write something like /%category%/%postname%/%monthnum%/%day%/%year%/

That means the exact url to a blog post will read like http://www.thingsthatjustpissmeoff.com/ categorynamewhichcontainskeywords/ blogposttitlewhichalsocontainskeywords/

It add a mod rewrite to the htaccess file on your server to make this happen.

However at godaddy hosting, this never works. I called their tech support to get their assistance. They tell me mod rewrite works fine but maybe it won’t work on their version of apache. After an hour back and forth on this, the final verdict was “There is a lot of documentation at apache.com about our version of apache and you could try to figure out how it all works there.”

Lets see. I can show initiative and go to apache.com and learn all about godaddy hosting’s version of apache or I can just tell all my clients to go to another hosting company. No skin off my back if it won’t work on godaddy hosting’s version of apache.

I just can’t believe that since millions of people use wordpress that godaddy would not be a little more helpful in trying to resolve this issue. They are the ones that will lose clients because of it. My clients will host somewhere else is I ask them to so it doesn’t hurt me either way. I’m just pissed off because I tried for over an hour to work with them rather than just tell my clients that godaddy hosting sucks and they were not willing to help find a fix for me.

So from now on I will just recommend that people who want to use a wordpress blog and rank well in the search engines that godaddy hosting is not the best place to be.

Those Born 1920-1979

READ TO THE BOTTOM FOR QUOTE OF THE MONTH BY JAY LENO. IF YOU DON’T READ ANYTHING ELSE—VERY WELL STATED

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors, or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention the risks we took hitchhiking.

As infants &children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts, or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread, and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, but we weren’t overweight because,

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo’s, X-boxes. No video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD’s, no surround-sound or CD’s, no cell phones, no personal computers! no Internet or chat rooms…….

WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment.

Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers, and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

If YOU are one of them… CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good .

While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn’t it?!

The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:

‘With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?’

For those that prefer to think that God is not watching over us…go ahead and delete this.

For the rest of us…pass this ON!