MyxerTones Idiocy

The other day I received some crappy radio rap song on my phone. I didn’t order it or request it off the internet, my phone, or those annoying commercials on TV. The song came from a website called MyxerTones. It’s not a subscription site, so I don’t have to worry about any additional charges past the first charge of that Verizon charges for a multimedia message. I contacted their support to let them know the error of their ways. The response I got annoyed me a bit.

Hi Mike,

Sometimes people enter the wrong number for their account and it creates an account under your number. No problem, you can get the password to the account and cancel or change the info to your own. Just go to the MyxerTones Sign In page, click on ‘forgot my password’, enter your phone number as the login and we’ll send a new password to your phone.

First off, if someone accidentally put the wrong number in their account when they signed up, wouldn’t I have gotten the password verification sent to my phone in the beginning? Second, I have to incur another charge on my phone bill because some stupid website made a mistake? No. That doesn’t sound right to me. Granted the charges are small, but that shouldn’t matter. They should really have another way to change passwords or some system to prevent things like this from happening. Idiots I tell you. Idiots.

Matt’s Dad’s Basement-Tupac

speaker I’m taking all you St. Louis people back with this song. I was in high school when this song came out, probably 6-8 years ago. 105.7 The Point used to play this song all the time. It’s by a St. Louis band named Matt’s Dad’s Basement and is about seeing Tupac at McDonalds. It is a hilarious song. I don’t know whatever happened to this band, but their album Two Think Minimum is a pretty decent album. (The rest of the album is alternative. This was the only acoustic track on the album).

Scrubs

Lately I’ve been finding myself watching Scrubs a lot. I never watched this show during it’s regular airings. In fact, I remember watching the first show 6 seasons ago and I thought it sucked. Now, I can’t help but watch it every time I see it on. I’ve have the first 5 seasons on DVD now. The show is a really good show and really funny. In the earlier seasons the show takes itself more serious and in the later seasons it becomes more slap-stick and exaggerated. Most comedies follow that same pattern if they find success and are on for more than a few years. One of the funniest episodes of Scrubs is the musical episode that aired last season. I laugh out loud several times during that episode. Scrubs is to my twenties as Saved by the Bell was to my youth. I’ll watch it every time it’s on and I’ll see every episode at least 10 times. Lame, I know, but no matter how many times I see it, I laugh. Who doesn’t need a good laugh now and again?

Automattic: We Change the Rules When We Get Caught

In short, guy has wp.com account, new employee joins with the same name and wants that account name. Automattic takes it (supposedly without notifying current account holder). Guy gets mad and shouts at Automattic. Automattic points to their FAQ’s which they changed overnight to show what they were doing was ok. There’s probably more to the story. I could care less. I just find the whole thing funny. Another example of questionable practices on behalf of Automattic and WordPress leader, Matt.

Read Wank’s take on it and the original thread where the complaint arose.

Even if the whole thing isn’t true (which it seems to be true), their handling of it was a complete joke.

If You Liked That (Multiple Category) Plugin

I’ve been using the If You Liked That plugin for quite a long time. Following the content of a post, this plugin inserts links to a user selectable number of other posts in the same category as the main post. The problem was, I often have posts in multiple categories and people might find it more useful if it displays posts from all the categories the post is published in. This version does exactly that. This version of the plugin supports multiple categories being listed below the post instead of posts just from one category. I’ve contacted the original plugin author with the changes but have yet to hear back from him, so I labeled this 1.2 (his is 1.1) and am releasing it from my blog in case anyone wants it. He did all the hard work and I have to thank him for an excellent plugin. Also, thanks to MellerTime for the help on making this multi-category.

Download it from here: Download If You Liked That plugin