December 17th, 2007

We get a lot of tele-marketer calls during the afternoon, usually between 5pm – 7pm. Usually I like to answer them to hear what kind of deals they are doing on whatever the heck it is that they are selling.

Anyway, today the phone rings and it was one of those annoying automated services where as soon as you answer you are put on hold. So I’m on hold for maybe 5 seconds when it switches me through to a really cool sounding guy who informs me that I have been selected to get a heavily discounted price on a stay at their resort.

So he continues on with his memorised sales pitch when I interrupt him with

>”I’m not interested”

He replies with

>”Is is because of the location?”

To which I reply

>”No, it’s because I was put on hold as soon as I answered the phone, which I find very rude”

He went silent for a bit, then told me that it wasn’t his fault. I told him I knew it wasn’t his fault but if he could pass the message on to his supervisor I would be grateful.

He then started talking about how he didn’t know it did that, and how he would have to have a word to his supervisor about it. I agreed then thanked him, he thanked me and we hung up.

So fun talking to tele-marketers!

Grabbed a copy of MarsEdit the other day and I’m really liking it. Makes posting to multiple blogs so simple. I still use the ‘Edit in Textmate’ option for linking to urls and stuff, so in a way I’m still using Textmate, but I just like the UI of MarsEdit /shrug.

Plus, the support from Daniel at Red Sweater was second to none after I sent off a few emails with various questions. So I decided to support him since the app is really good (and was cheap the day I bought it ).

So yeah, that’s why I have the little MarsEdit badge on the menu now

Facebook seemed cool when I joined a few months ago. It allowed me to find people I had lost contact with which was neat but recently I’ve kinda grown tired of it.

The friend finder aspect of it is great, I found a lot of old friends, but I’m getting sick of all the stupid little ‘mini applications’ that are floating around. It’s really starting to remind me of MySpace, which I loathe.

Some of the applications are cool and useful, but I think probably 85% – 90% of them are completely useless.

The thing that really annoys me is the oodles of ‘invites’ I get to join some team, or take some test, or do some ‘thing’. All the applications have a ‘invite your friends’ section where you can select the friends you want to share it with. I swear most people just choose the ‘select all’ option and send it off, which effectively spams everyone to join this new application.

I’ve received messages from people, which I apparently can’t read because I don’t have the required application installed. I have no wish to add all this useless stuff to my profile, so the message effectively gets lost.

It just looks like facebook is becoming too commercialised.

So yeah, I love how easy it is to track people down that I had lost contact with, but the extra crap that is starting to clog down my facebook page is annoying.