Andyrew

Rant! Rant!

A few things have been getting me down the past few days. It’s nothing of any real importance, but.. after a while, i gets so frustrating! I’d like to see if anyone agrees.

Noone can work, continuously. Everyone has distractions.. and breaks from doing work. Break.com is a HUGE website, and to be honest.. i can’t understand why. Well yes, obviously the owners know what they’re doing, it’s an old website.. lala.. lala. But, before i go and take a look at the front page today, let me take a guess at what might be there.

- “Some dude”/”This guy” - in a description
- Ending of a video is given away..
- The description of one video, will be completely irrelevant tothe actual video.

So, let’s go to the homepage, and take a look… … Ah, the first video kind of.. sums everything up.

“This guy tries to show off for his friends at work but loses control when he pops a wheelie and ends up breaking his leg.”

Ffs.. he doesn’t only tell me what happened in the video.. but, how it ends.. (so really.. i don’t even need to watch it anymore) But, i do watch them! Just because he lies. Yes, The video is simply.. well, let me give my description that should go on the site.

“A motorbike wheelies goes bad”

It’s not the most adventurous, no. But..

- I didn’t see anyone else there? I thought he was showing off to all of his friends..
- How does the Break author, know he was at work?
- How does he know he is a”guy”
- “pop” a wheelie?
- He broke his leg? Maybe the editor of the videos, gets enjoyment out of them.. and then cuts the end off of them so noone else can watch it, because i didn’t see any legs get broken there

All of you have to visit funny video sites? I don’t mean Youtube. Youtube are allowed to post shitty descriptions, as it’s user submitted and stuff.. and the admin of youtube doesn’t edit the title and descriptions.

Maybe, the same bloke who writes the break descriptions, should also be a movie critic. “Some dude and a girl, go on the worlds largest boat, that can go 600 miles per hour. In the end, the ship crashes and the dude dies”

And for anyone who hasn’t seen Titanic.. i’m sorry.

Next on my list, is Sitepoint auctions. Now, i’m going to keep this brief. Infact, let me talk about paypal first. I spend quite allot of money online, so have my bank card verified in paypal.. I transfer money from my bank to paypal, every now and again.

I went to transfer money, a week ago.. and it got rejected. But, it was over the Christmas period.. so, i figured i’d just try again..

REJECTED

And i was charged £23.78.. fantastic! So, that meant my paypal was like.. £13.00 in minus figures.. which meant i had to verify my bank account again (they removed it).. which means, it’s going to be another WEEK before i have anything in there..

Back to the Sitepoint rant, which is kind of interlinked. So, i decide i’ll just sell one of my sites.. to give me some cash. But no. $20 to create a listing now on Sitepoint! I think they were rumours about charging you, per post.

Not really. But, “Want to buy”.. to make a new thread, it’s $5. Now, the $5 doesn’t really boter me all that much.. Afterall, they are just trying to do the same as the rest of us. But, it’s the process.. of adding thoes $5.. that takes like.. 10 minutes, to request to buy something? Even ‘trade your services’ costs $1.. $1.. pfft..

Back on track - The sitepoint sites for sale, is going really downhill. Imagine, if you looked in your local newspaper, and went into the animals section and saw

Dead dog. Potential to be a great pet.

? Let me just try to sum it up.. what people love to say..

• Site established 1 day ago. It’s made $100.. so.. $100 x 365 = $365,000 asking price. Take a look at what i mean..

http://www.sitepoint.com/marketplace/auction/18592
“TARGETED NICHE - GET YOUR PIECE OF A GROWING $63 BILLION PIE!” –

Just throw in some $$ and capital letters. I will definately buy it then.. even though “Monthly Revenue: Assume None”because it has “Great potential”

So. Now, since i cannot buy or sell anything.. i decided that i would just work on my websites a little. Until my server started running slow.. and then not at all.. and then the other websites that i needed, started running slow.. and then not at all. My host is http://www.interserver.net by the way.

Back when i had Coshed, they guaranteed 99.9% uptime. GUARANTEE, means.. you know.. guarantee! But, my uptime for one month.. was 43%. Which made me lose mid $X,xxx.xx that month…

So, i’m pretty stuck. There’s pleanty more things that i can’t stand atm.. but i’ll leave that for a rainy day