iCan Do The Things That iWant

I recently am in the middle of switching my internet service from Earthink DSL to combine my AT&T landline with it’s internet service package. It sounded like a good deal and I was saving $30 a month by doing it.

Unfortunately the dumb ass service person screwed it all up. He told me that I would receive the installation package software on last Monday and that my new internet service would be ready on Wednesday…

Monday passes:.. No new modem or installation package arrives.
Tuesday: I loose my internet connection
Wednesday: On the phone for 3 hours and was transfered to 3 different departments to figure out what the hell was happened.
1) The sales person never mailed out the installation software.
2) He was wrong when he told me that I could use my current modem and phone filters from Earthlink.
3) Now I have to wait till next Monday for all that shit to arrive.

Luckily one of my neighbors is letting me use their linksys;) but I don’t want to use it, too much. So no photo, audio and video uploading till I get my own connection. I spent most of Thursday all teary eyed over watching net-videos on the horrid things that are going on to the people of Burma and watching the riots and killings of over 30 Buddhists Monks who protested the Chinese government to free Tibet.

How we take things for granted until we loose it ourselves. Anyway, not having a full net connection gives me time to finish and start to doing other things.

On another note, I’m digging the new Weezer song “Pork and Beans.” The video is so full of YouTube celebs, it’s funny. Like it or not. The internet is opening up new avenues of media and social networks for anyone to express themselves and be heard. Some might think that some internet celebs whom some say have no talent, don’t have anything important to say and don’t deserve the attention of the opportunities that have opened up to them. Well, I say who cares! You have the freedom of speech. Try living in Tibet or Burma and see what happens when you express your views. Oh, wait! Their governments don’t let them have internet access.

Burma It Can’t Wait: Leaders on Day 35

Aung San Suu Kyi

Born 19 June 1945 in Rangoon, is a pro-democracy activist and leader of the National League for Democracy in Burma, and a noted prisoner of conscience and advocate of nonviolent resistance. Aung San Suu Kyi was the third child in her family. Her name “Aung San” derives from her father, “Kyi” from her mother and “Suu” from her grandmother.[6] Suu Kyi won the Rafto Prize and the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1990 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. In 1992 she was awarded the Jawaharlal Nehru peace prize by the Government of India for her peaceful and non-violent struggle under a military dictatorship. She is currently under detention, with the Burmese junta repeatedly extending her detention. According to the results of the 1990 general election, Suu Kyi earned the right to be Prime Minister, as leader of the winning National League for Democracy party, but her detention by the military junta prevented her from assuming that role.

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