ABC News: A Self-Made Man, you girls think we have it so easy. You have no idea.

One of my friends who attends Western Kentucky University has been missing for the last five days. Anyone who might have any information please contact the Bowling Green Police Department or you can send it to me and I will forward it to the family.

UPDATE: She’s been located and is ok.

Ok, I normally wouldn’t do this, but I want to make sure no other student at Murray State University has to suffer the wrath of a horrible Wireless Communications professor, Abdul Yarali.

I was very outspoken about the difficult time I was having in this course. The biggest reason I was having a difficult time is the professor was not clear on assignments, communicated poorly, and ran a very disorganized and unstructured class. All of my other on-line classes have given a schedule up-front that allowed you to know what was due when. A must for an on-line class because on-line classes fill the void for non-traditional students who have full-time jobs or other responsibilities that keep them from attending traditional on-the-ground classes.

Mr. Yarali did not understand this. He ran the on-line class exactly like a on-the-ground class. He gave pop quizes that lasted online for only 24 hours. If you didn’t login, you missed it. He scheduled tests for specific 4 to 5 hour windows, which again if you had work or anything else you had to reschedule your life because the most notice we were given with one of these tests was approximately a week.

He banned the use of the on-line discussion board. He never used the on-line gradebook or even emailed you grades of your assignments. This makes calculating your grade on your own impossible, and also makes checking his final grade submission impossible as well.

His written English skills were poor. I feel any professor giving an on-line course where clearly written directions are critical should at least have some proficiency in the English language.

If you are taking the on-line TSM degree at Murray State University, please for your own sanity avoid this professor. I’m not even sure I would take this professor for a regular class.

Even though this video is an advertisement for a band, that does not negate the fact it raises some good points.

Apparently digg picked up my Playstation 3 article on the frontpage today. This didn’t make the server at Dreamhost happy. WordPress was bringing that server down, along with my other site, helpmewithmygameproblems.com. I got a nice email from Dreamhost support telling me why they disabled it, not because digg was causing too many requests or killing my bandwidth. No, it’s because WordPress was hogging all the CPU time generating the same page over and over. They told me how to enable WP-Cache, which I did and the site appears to be running much smoother now.

TL;DR (That’s Too Long; Didn’t Read for you non-Shackers) Make sure to have WP-Cache enabled if you run a WordPress blog for the off-chance you get dugg or Slashdotted.

I’ve been sitting here bored submitting Type Tee slogans to Threadless. Go vote on them!

I turned on user registration so that you now have to be registered to post a comment. I don’t think this will be a huge deal as the only comments I mainly get are spam, and I’m just tired of moderating 50 spam comments a day. You’ll be prompted to login to comment and if you don’t have a login you can simply register at the login screen. Thanks.

I know I’ve never mentioned this here, but I absolutely loath my bank, 5/3. Today they denied a deposit because their little check machine in who knows where read the routing numbers on my check from my employer’s Health Spending Account wrong. Not only do they remove the money that I deposited Tuesday, they charge me $10 for this fee. Then they tell me I have to contact the people who cut me the check.

Fine.

I do that, I call the people that cut me the check. They inform me they have issued over 5,000 of these checks this year with no problems. The problem must be with 5/3 they said. Fine. So they attempt to call 5/3 and resolve this for me, but are unsuccessful. They return my call and leave me the information that basically they can cut me a new check and void the old one, but they aren’t going to do anything about the $10 charge as that is 5/3’s fault and I should call them at the customer service number and attempt to speak to deposit services.

Ok. I call 5/3 and talk to the nice little girl that answers the 800 line and ask for “deposit services”. She has to look that number up and then transfers me after I explain the situation. Deposit services then informs me they don’t speak directly to customers, only to banking center managers. I again explain the whole situation to this person, even though I already know she can’t do jack shit to fix my situation, hoping maybe she can transfer me back to some Uber Customer Service Rep since my banking center always acts like they don’t want to deal with me because I’m a young person. Anyway, after about 20 minutes of getting no where with her she basically tells me to go back to the bank and ask that they refund the charge, and if they won’t I’m basically stuck.

So, I go driving back across town, all worked up and ready to show my ass if I get the chance in the main office. I go in, expecting them to not refund my $10 since earlier today they told me they wouldn’t. The girl basically says, “We don’t normally do this, but since you have such a good relationship with us we will.”

Damn. I don’t get to show my ass saying you all just lost all of my current and future business. I don’t get to go off on how asanine this $10 charge is for something that isn’t my fault. I also don’t get to go off on no one attempting to verify that the number the check machine read wrong was indeed damaged or different from what is printed on the check face.

So I’m basically going to go tomorrow and see about opening an account at a locally owned bank. At least if they screw up I can go in and probably yell at the idiot who screwed up instead of talking to 10 different people in 10 different locations, none of whom can help me even if they wanted to because I wasn’t supposed to be transfered to them in the first place.