Landing Bay:

Cargo elevator:

Deima Surface Bridge:

The team:

• Q-chan
• ^8n00b
• Agito
• and me

It seemed to be a website about traveling/hotels/vacations what what really got me wondering is why every post title was a question, every post was short and expanded on the question, and every reply was a answer to the question. Sure it could be a real blog like that, but what kind of blog would only post questions? A few minutes of searching let me work out exactly what’s going on.

Every single blog post is copied from Yahoo Answers! Every comment was a answer to a question. If you ask a question on Yahoo answers with certain keywords (looks like hotel, vacation and travel are the keywords used), then your question will be copied to the blog. rel=nofollow is added to all links posted so you can’t exploit this to increase your page rank but the links may bring you some new visitors (although I doubt it).

After working this out the first thing that came to mind was “surly this is against the Yahoo Answers TOS”, so i had a quick look through the TOS and look what I found:

12. NO COMMERCIAL REUSE OF YAHOO! SERVICES
You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion or use of, or access to, the Yahoo! Services (including Content, advertisements, Software and your Yahoo! ID).

If anyone is wondering, the website is journeyshirts.com (I will not make that a link as it does not deserve to be linked to) and while I was looking into it I also found financebis.com (same thing but this is about finance, looks like a different owner too).

I wonder how many blogs like this are out there.

A few days later I called Optus and asked them if it was too late to cancel the change and I was told there is no record of the plan change, intact there was no record of them calling us. Anyway they put a note on the account saying we don’t want to change.

Last night at about 11pm I checked my usage only to find my plan changed! I posted about it on Whirlpool and was given a link to a form to fill in. Once I filled in the form I received a call from Optus and they changed my plan back. No hassles.

I’m going to have to have a look at the new plans though. Sure they count uploads but they have a higher amount of bandwidth included.

My current plan has 20GB onpeak, 40GB offpeak for $95/month (I think)

Might switch to the 50GB onpeak, 70GB offpeak for $50/month Even after including uploads (usually 20GB/month, 40GB in February though), it’s still a much better deal!

Firstly there’s the incident about 3 years ago. This is the first incident I would like to mention as everyone I have told about it will agree the staff are clearly in the wrong. To put things simply, my account received a permanent banned. Yes, I know you’re probably thinking “You probably deserved it” or something along those lines, but let me tell you what exactly happened first! At the time I was in a room talking to some friends, and I told them I was using custom web browser (made by myself) with Habbo as the startup page. This was my preferred method of accessing Habbo  at the time. I got the idea from Jagex actually, I used a simple program like this to access Runescape and I liked it, so I made a simple program to let me access Habbo. All it did was open Habbo with no toolbar so I get extra screen space, it also allowed me to easily identify the habbo window when I had a lot of running applications (which was most of the time). After I said told my friends about it (I wasn’t even offering to let them use it, we were just  talking about web browsers!) I received the ban. Now here’s the kicker, my ban reason was scamming. Can someone please point out how I was scamming them?

Next up is when about 40 of my accounts for perm banned for doing something I was told I am allowed to do not long before I did it. Yes, you did read that right. 40 accounts. Why did I have 40 accounts online in the first place? It was for some screenshots. I asked the staff using “call for help” weather or not I would be allowed to have multiple accounts online at the same time. They replied informing me that is is allowed aslong as I am not using the extra accounts for scamming. So I brought on all of my accounts and started taking screenshots, then I start noticing they were getting logged off. I quickly switch through all of the windows looking for the accounts getting logged off only to find they have been banned for “Terms and Conditions violation – cloning”. Now, I’m a strong believer in reading Terms and Conditions before joining websites, and I have read the Terms and Conditions for Habbo many times. Not once does it mention anything about cloning, so how is it a terms and conditions violation?

Something a little more recent would be in April of this year, My account was given a permanent ban for “Room Scripting” (their way of saying I own too much furniture and their buggy system says it doesn’t exist). I saved most of the emails sent between Player Support and me so I would be able to post them online at a future date, and I am glad I saved them. In fact I’m glad I saved them as they are just so funny to read. In fact,  I have shown a few people and every one of them have just laughed at how incompetent the staff are! The staff claimed they had some sort of proof I had used scripting programs. When I told them they have a problem on their end as I never used any scripting programs, they just closed my ticket stating my problem is “solved”. I even asked them for the proof and I have still not received anything resembling proof.

A little over one month later I finally got my account unbanned, how? Simple. I sent a message to Bamaloo (the hotel manager at the time) on twitter and asked her for a contact email so I could send the whole log of emails to her and see what she will do about it, she asked me to just tell Player Support to pass it onto her. So I wrote up a email for them to give to her which explains that I was unfairly banned, there is no proof I even did anything wrong, how much money I have spent on Habbo Credits, and fansites etc. in the hope that she would read it and finally unban my account. Well it turns out Player Support magically decided to unban me rather than foward her the email. It looks like someone wants to keep their job. Too bad they have all gone to Singapore now. (EDIT: I forgot to mention, I actually asked for a refund on the HC I lost while banned, just over 1 month which would be around $5AUD probably. Funny how they just ignored my email all together)

The final issue I want to mention is the latest issue I have had. The last rare to be released was a “Crystal patch”. Anyone who bought this received a crystal badge. that is to say everyone except me and one of my friends (and probably more that I do not know of). Now this should be a simple matter of me contacting player support, they check my credit history for the purchase then give me the crystal badge. It shouldn’t take more than 1 week at the most right? Wrong. Firstly I didn’t realize people received the badges as I kept looking for mine and never saw it, then when I contacted Player Support it took them a long time to even get back to me.

On the 11th of June I finally recieved a reply from Player Support informing me that my account has recieved the Crystal Patch badge, please note I asked them about both mine and my friends and they have not mentioned my friend’s badge. I logged into the website and looked for it, no badge. No biggie I thought, I’ll just leave it for a few days and try again. So I waited, and waited, and waited. Still no badge. On June 21st I used the new help tool to ask them about the badge again (surly 10 days is more than long enough to wait). I asked them about both mine and my friend’s badge again just to make sure we both got our badges.

The reply I got just made me loose all hope. No mention of my badge AT ALL, instead they simply told me they cannot answer emails that are not sent from the Habbo themselves. They then go on to tell me my friend needs to contact them. Hang on! Where’s my badge though? You can at least help me right? Apparently not. I asked them about mine again and then all 3 of my tickets were closed by the same person within a few minutes of each other without any help given. In fact all the reply said is they believe my issue is “Resolved”. How can it be resolved when you won’t even read what my problem is? I retaliated by copying and pasting a reply to all 3 tickets stating that they have done nothing to help me and my issues are not resolved. Now just today I got another reply, apparently my browser’s cache is the problem.

Sure, I don’t mind them dumbing it down and talking like I know nothing about computers (hey, most players are kids who don’t know this stuff, so you have to expect these things) but claiming “the more you browse the Internet, the fuller your cache becomes!” (their words not mine) is just ridiculous. Come on Sulake, can you at least hire some staff that can speak English? Furthermore I am told I should clear my cache, but they will not provide me with assistance in doing so. Instead they tell me to google it. Great help. My cache isn’t even the problem here. I have tried clearing my cache, different browsers, different computers, I even asked a few friends to check what badges I have. They all tell me the same thing. I simply do not have the Crystal Patch badge on my account.

If you have managed to read this far, congratulations. Hopefully you can see why I am so pissed off with Sulake Staff all the time.

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@echo off
tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME EQ vlc.exe" /v /FO "list" > tempdata
for /F "tokens=*" %%R in ('findstr "Window" tempdata') do set VAR=%%R
set TITLE=Window Title: VLC media player
set VAR=%VAR:|=^|%
set VAR=%VAR:<=^<% set VAR=%VAR:>=^>%
set VAR=%VAR:(=^(%
set VAR=%VAR:)=^)%
IF "%VAR%"=="%TITLE%" GOTO :EOF
set VAR=%VAR:Window Title: =%
set VAR=%VAR: - VLC media player=%
echo %VAR%

PS. It creates the file “tempdata” in the same folder as the batch file. It also wont work if the playlist is focused (or was focused more recently than the main window).

There will be no output if the song is stopped (but if it is just paused it will show the song name).

The gBall is a football developed by google. It has inbuilt sencers to calculate the speed and force of kicks aswell as GPS to track how far it was kicked. When lost the owners wil be able to go to google maps to find the missing ball. The ball costs $10 upfront with aditional charges based on the time of day it was kicked aswell as the distance it traveled. The accuracy of the ball is within 0.025 pixels of a standard 17″ LCD monitor.

Youtube: Your new viewing experience

Youtube has flipped their site upside down! this includes videos aswell as al lthe text (although the layout hasn’t changed). They recomend turning your screen upside down because computer monitors give better quality when upside down, tilting your head or moving to Australia because eevryting in Australia is upside down (Australians are recomended to move to the northern hemisphere if it is upside down for them).

Smashing Magazine: Internet Explorer 8.1 Eagle Eyes Leaked

Claims of IE8.1 bieng leaked. you’ve got to read this one for yourself.

Sitepoint: Internet reboot today at 11:59UTC

The internet will be rebooting at 11:59UTC with an expected downtime of 1 mintue.

You can call me cheap or picky or whatever, but when I see something advertised as discounted by a certain percent, I want that item discounted by that percent. Not some rough estimate made by a monkey.

(sorry about the quality and those lines… no idea what made them appear)

The tag for the above ring clearly says 60% off it also states that the original price was $29.95. It doesn’t take a genius to work out that $19.95 is not 60% off. it’s onyl 30%. So is it wrong of me to ask for the ring at the price of $11.98 (with the proper 60% discount).

I asked about it and aparently (according to the staff member) it is not false advertising adn the ring is $19.95. That’s one custoemr they’ve lost and hopefully more.

Store: Bevilles, Highpoint Shopping Centre, Australia

The new iPod shuffle is just 1.8″ (45.2 mm) tall, 0.7″ (17.5 mm) wide, 0.3″ (7.8 mm) thick and weighs 0.38 ounces (10.5 grams) . It features no buttons on the player itself and it controled by buttons on the headphones.You can now hear the name of the song that is playing, and the artist using a new VoiceOver feature which speaks 14 languages.

It uses the same controls as the iPhone, single click for play/pause, double click for nxt track and tripple click for previous track, it also features volume up/down buttons and the VoiceOver feature is activated by holding down the button.

While this is smaller than the previous iPod Shuffle it can store more music boasting a 4GB capacity (roughly 1,000 songs). t is made from stainless steel so if you do step on it I think it would survive.

Play mode is switched using a switch with one option for shuffle, another for playing in order and the third option ofcorse being off.

Interested in buying one? It will cost you US$79/AU$129and is available in silver or black.

Link: http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/

As you can see, I have 6 emails saying The Code Cast has followed me, ofcorse when I checked they wern’t actually following me. I checked the list of people they were following and refreshed it a few times aswell… every time it was (roughly) the same number of people but every time it was a completly different group of people. So it really makes me wonder, what kind of a business model do they have? Right now they seem just as bad as all those companies trying to sell \/1@gr@ or transfer $1,000,000USD to my bank account. Do they seriously need to do that much spaming to get people to go to their website? Does it really suck that much?

If they would just stop spaming so much, maybe they wouldn’t get such bad posts about them. Surely this can’t be good for them, can it?

I actually did a search to see what people were saying about it, and it turns out people are actually falling for it, ther profile currently has 1,600 followers and is growing, people also seem to be going to the website because I see alot of people coment on the content. If the content is as good as people say, then why do they need to spam so much? Are they too cheap to afford to run some ads somewhere? I know I don’t have to spam everyone to get people to my websites. I don’t even run ads and I get visitors. Infact the current theme for my blog was chosen at random and I still haven’t changed it and I still manage to get visitors!

Hopefully someone from The Code Cast will read this and stop their spam, but I dout they will stop anyway.