Incessant Expressions

So, my cable internet connection was down for nearly two days and I was relegated to using my connection at work which I don’t particularly like to do. This means I get to drone on at work about nothing ineteresting since I’m not digging through all of my RSS feeds for tidbits of interestingness. Anyway.

When the connection went down I did the normal Adelphia/Comcast troubleshooting shuffle: unplug modem, unplug router, wait 30 seconds to 5 minutes, plug up modem, plug up router, see what works. Well, I did that a few times and of course, nothing worked. Instead of calling those imbeciles at Comcast, I futzed about more, doing the same things over and over without results. Having worked in IT for over 9 years now, I felt pretty silly so I went to bed. Come the next morning, I scurred to do the troubleshooting dance again without change and decided to unplug it all and go to work. Fast forward to around 10PM that night (yesterday, 03/27) I start messing with it and miraculously everything works…sans router(s) in place which make me hesistant to even plug up a toaster to my modem. So I manage to restore both routers to defaults and still, no go. Turns out the modem was sending a Ping of Death to my routers for whatever reason. Also turns out there was an outage in my area that just happened to coincide with the time I originally noticed it going out and Comcast said it’d be “fixed by 8AM”. Right. That’s why it took 4 days to fix the same issue last year (ping of death, not an outage) because someone obviously cannot differentiate BRAVO and VICTOR in a MAC address. Anywho, after I hung up, I unplugged everything and went off in a huff.

Fast-fast forward till tonight when I got home from work. I decided to reset one router (again) to see the results. This time the reset worked, maybe I only thought I did it the other night. I was so looking forward to chewing out Comcast for bombing my modem with garbage data during the Adelpia->Comcast transistion but I was robbed of that.

Now that I’m done with my rant, anyone know of a good Google Calendar sync program for Windows Mobile 5? I’ve tried OggSync and frankly, it’s trash. Extremely clunky useless UI and atrocious colors. I’ve also tried GMobileSync which was OK but only synced one calendar of three and only sync three events out of about 70. It had an OK UI but lacked any real options or much of anything else. It’s basically dummy-proof. I also tried GCalSync but it failed to run on WM5 which I expected.

So now I’m on the hunt to get useful apps on my new T-Mobile Dash smartphone.

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