I’ve had a copy of the following video saved to my computer forever. I will watch it from time to time whenever I need a good laugh.

I don’t think there has ever been a better moment in MTV Movie Awards History. Was there any special moments from those awards shows that you remember?

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Gary Lee has started another link train! This time, he’s using the power of Technorati to help us all increase our ranks! You should definitely get into it now while this list is short and boost your rank! Saman has included me on his link train post.

Also, once you favorite everyone, make sure you actually click the Add to my Favorites button!!

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Here are the rules:

1) Write a short introduction paragraph about what how you found the list and include a link to the blog that referred you to the list.

2) COPY the Rules and ENTIRE List below and post it to your blog. To avoid duplicate content and increase the amount of keywords your site can accessible for, go ahead and change the titles of the blog. Just don’t change the links of the blog.

3) Take “My New Faves” and move them into the “The Original Faves” list.

4) Add 3 Blogs that you’ve just added to your Technorati Favorites to the “My New Faves” section. Remember to also add the “Fave Me” link next to your new blogs (i.e. http://technorati.com/faves?sub=addfavbtn&add=http://www.yourfavesdomain.com)

5) Add Everyone on this list to your Technorati Favorites List by clicking on “Fave the Site.” Those who want good kharma will fave you back. If not, you will for sure get the benefits of faves from the bloggers who continue this list after you.

My New Faves

Kelly Cho - Fave the Site
Shawn Knight - Fave the Site
Tyler Ingram - Fave the Site

The Original Faves

Bobs [ReformatThis] - Fave the Site
Everyday Weekender - Fave the Site
Armen’s Blog - Fave the Site
Gary Lee - Fave the Site
Dosh Dosh - Fave the Site
Nate Whitehill - Fave the Site
Ms. Danielle - Fave the Site
Jeff Kee - Fave the Site
Scribble on the Wall - Fave the Site
Jimi Morrisons Head - Fave the Site
Jon Lee - Fave the Site
Samanathon - Fave the Site
Eat Drink & Be Merry - Fave the Site
The Man of Silver - Fave the Site
Hannes Johnson - Fave the Site
My Dandelion Patch - Fave the Site
Nathan Drach - Fave the Site
SiteLogic - Fave the Site
Julies Journal - Fave the Site
Stephen Fung - Fave the Site
Ed Lau - Fave the Site
QMusings - Fave the Site

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So you want to know what really grinds my gears?
Most Online Return Policies for Defective Items and those Copy and Paste Emails!

I purchased a stick of memory online a few months ago. The memory stick finally got to me and sure enough, it was a bad stick. I contacted the company from which I purchased the stick from - ZipZoomFly.com - and told them about the defective product. I requested that they send me a replacement stick along with a prepaid return label so I could return the defective product back to them. A few days later I received an email from someone in that organization that was just a copy and paste of their return policy, other than that no real attempt at solving my issue. It stated that returns have to be paid for by the customer, the returned product would have to go through testing, and then they would send me the replacement after they found the memory I received to be bad. I repeated my request, after all, they sold a defective item and I was not wanting to pay shipping for an item that was defective and not my fault. It wasn’t the cost of shipping, its the principles I hold dear on business transactions. You sold me a part that was claimed to be a brand new working part, thats what I bought, thats what I want, so take this back and give me what I bought from you.

Now I know I’m spoiled normally when it comes to good service, the majority of the technical buying I do is for my employer. When products are for a business rather than an everyday consumer, vendors bend at every request most of the time. “Something wrong with that part, sure thing we will get you a new one out right away, please just return the bad part with the included shipping label”. When it comes to my employer, this is what happens about 98% of the time, you are a business and a vendor does not want to lose you. But as an everyday consumer, you will see that most Online Companies treat you like dirt when it comes to defective returns.

So long story short, I just kept getting copy and paste emails back from ZipZoomFly.com. The memory stick was a Corsair memory stick and had a lifetime warranty. I decided that if I was going to pay to ship it anywhere, it would be to Corsair. I didn’t want to have any further dealings with ZipZoomFly.com period. Corsair on the other hand was great. I received constant email updates about where in the process my new and old stick were. I think there were about 5 update emails all together that I received from them. All typed out by an actual person. Now that is service and I was very grateful for that. That brightened up an overall bad experience. Oh by the way, they confirmed that the stick was bad, so I was not making it up.

The Outcome:
I will try to buy Corsair more when I can, both at home and at work, that service experience was excellent. I will never ever buy another thing from ZipZoomFly.com again. If they come in cheapest on a pricegrabber or whatever, they are not going to get any further business from me. They had the opportunity to save my business, but copy and paste emails are not the way to save a customer.

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Tyler Ingram just posted this great joke called “Magic Beer” on his website! It reminded me of an old joke that I had heard before. I always loved this joke so I figured I would share it with all of you.

Superman is flying over Metropolis keeping his eyes vigilant for anything that he may be of need. Suddenly, a naked figure laying on top of a roof in a complete spread eagle position catches his eye. He has super vision after all. Then he realized that it is his girlfriend Lois Lane! He pondered this for a short minute and decided he may swoop down there, do some super fast and fun “super-action” and swoop out. He is faster than a bullet so of course Lois wouldn’t even know he was ever there.

Suddenly - a very fast wind and loud swoosh noise catches Lois’s attention and she says “What on Earth was that?”. The Invisible Man says “I have no idea but my @$$ is killing me”.

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Saman tagged me from his Obsessive Thoughts post. I kind of like these posts that spread from blog to blog, but I have to admit, figuring out 5 people to tag that have not already been tagged is going to be quite hard. Also changing mine from Saman’s is kind of hard, we have a lot in common.

1. My Family - E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G to me! I wouldn’t be the man I am today without them. I work harder and longer everyday to make a better life for my family. So you could say I obsess over everything for this biggest obssession.
2. Trying To Be Funny; Even Though I’m Not - The personality I have just tries to find humor or the light side of any given situation. I usually come up with these awful jokes that take 5 seconds to tell and 10 minutes to explain why it was funny. All good moods start with a laugh.
3. PHP - Its nice when you come by something that you understand. I have been programming PHP code for many years. I enjoy being part of the Documentation team and helping out anywhere I can to push forward the PHP movement.
4. Food; Especially Mexican Food - If it was an option, I could rotate a diet of Taco Bell and Chipotle everyday. But for health reasons and to keep the weight off, I’m usually very good about only eating at 1 of these once a month. Its always very hard to decide which one out of the two. My wife hates Mexican food so I don’t get to eat it as much as I would like (you know, 8 days a week!)
5. Blogging and Participating - This is a newer one of course, but it definitely qualifies! I love participating in all the blogging communities and doing all I can to get the community booming here. It really has become an obsession and a happy one.

Okay, choosing who to tag is kind of hard, because I know most people I participate with in the community have already been tagged and/or posted theirs.

So here is my tagging list:

• Samanathon.com’s Angry Networker - I think I’m almost doing this just to piss him off. I can’t wait to see what kind of tyrannical rant he might shoot off on this subject.
• Samanathon.com’s Derek - Derek writes some quality tech articles, lets see what he has to obsess about.
• John Chow - I could be wrong, but I don’t think anybody has tagged him yet or he has not written an article about this yet. I’m guessing one is going to be expensive meals
• Everyday Weekender - was one of the first to stop by this site. Please share with us your 5.
• Armen - always has interesting comments on the sites I read. I noticed he just recently stopped by here. Consider yourself tagged!

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