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My Thank You to the Community
Jan 24th
I like Folaji.com.
I like it because this is probably the first site that I’ve ever created for myself, and after a year and a half online, I find nothing more relaxing than sitting back and looking at my site, which I built the way I wanted to, without the constant input from some external party about advertising revenues and traffic statistics.
Its not that I hate developing sites for other, I’ve been doing that for as long as I can remember, and I don’t see any reason why I would stop. But there is something liberating about creating a site that is yours and yours alone, a site where you have final say on content, look and feel, and overall organization.
And that’s what Folaji.com is for me: a place I can escape to and be myself, where I can publish ideas, stories, and videos that had once only been a sentence on a piece of paper in an old binder. A place where others can come and read those stories, discuss them, and share their own if they would like. (Ok, maybe the Folaji.com community isn’t big enough for that yet, but hey, I can dream, can’t I?)
Alright, so why am I writing all this? Well, I came to the realization a few days ago that none of this would be possible if not for the array of wonderful free web tools available online. When you look at this site, you should understand that the look and feel, the blog engine, the different tools showing up on the side bar, were all developed by a large online community of bloggers and developers that offer their products for free. If it weren’t for these people and their willingness to share their tools with the online community, then Folaji.com would only be a shadow of its current self.
So I decided that, as a thank you for everyone’s efforts, I would take the time over the coming months to review each widget, plugin and tool I use on Folaji.com. This would be my way of thanking the community for such great work, and for allowing me to create this site, and hopefully will encourage others to do the same.
Could It Be? The Internet and RAWR Part 3?
Sep 26th
As Bender would say: I’m Back Baby!
My Internet was installed yesterday afternoon, and I couldn’t be happier.
Now I’ll be spending the following couple of weeks catching up on updating Folaji.com, with the first update being the post of RAWR: Expedition to Chult – Part 3, written by Fyrewind and sent to me way to long ago.
Hope you enjoy, and hope that those of your participating in the RAWR D&D adventure have fun tomorrow (if there is a session).
This sucks.
Sep 18th
Sent from my cell phone last night:
I would like to cancel my internet account and get a refund. I have been waiting since sept 1st for my connection to be setup.
Last week, when I called support to find out why I still did not have the internet I was told that a work order was never sent to Bell for my connection. I was told it would take 4 business days and that I would have the internet by this wednesday.
Today I am still without the internet and, after another call to support, found out I won’t have the internet until the 23rd and that I have to be home all day that day.
This is totally unacceptable, and I ask that you cancel my account and refund my credit card. I will find another internet service provider.
What I fail to mention, partly because my thumb was getting numb from using the touch screen keyboard, is that two days earlier I called tech support and they told me the connection was setup, only that it needed to be activated, and that would happen the following day around 11am. Whoever I spoke to obviously didn’t take the time to look up my account information, because the guy last night quickly told me that no connection was ever made.
Anyways, now I’m shopping for a new ISP.
This sucks.
Waiting on Nothing…
Sep 14th
When I contacted my Internet Service Provider in late August and asked them to move my account to Montréal, I was hoping that things would get done rather quickly. Looks like I was wrong.
Although they were quick to take my payment, they never contacted the technicians responsible for setting my connection, and its now been three weeks since I’ve had Internet access at home. This means that, other than my work computer (which I shouldn’t use to surf the web) and my cell phone (with its small touch screen and frustrating windows mobile keyboard) I’ve been without the Internet for about a month.
It’s not that I’m addicted to the internet, though you have to admit it would be useful for someone who just moved to a new city. Finding places of interest that would usually take less than a second with Google maps, now rely on my poor yellow-pages skills and a whole lot of luck.
Anywho, after a quick call placed to my ISP, they’ve apologized, refunded my unused connection time, and finally called a tech this week (who should be stopping by sometime Wednesday). So if all goes to plan, I’ll finally be able to surf from home once again, as well as use my VoIP phone. Also, I’ll finally be able to post RAWR part 3, which has been sitting in my Folaji.com inbox for over a month.
Lets just hope they remembered to call the tech…
