ComplainerMan

My Joomla forms stopped working one day a couple of weeks ago on one of my websites. The way I found out was when I checked my Google Analytics and saw a lot of hits on the contact form page, but no contact emails. Sure enough, both the standard Joomla contact form and DFContact were erroring out for no apparent reason. Of course 1 & 1 does not provide error logs for it’s shared hosting customers, but I had a pretty good idea what the cause of the problem was. Undoubtedly 1 & 1 had implemented a new email security measure without telling anyone.

Now if  you are a 1 & 1 shared hosting customer, you know how utterly useless calling their customer support is, unless you like talking to a rude american high school dropout or to someone reading off a card in a Filipino sweatshop. So I did the only sensible thing. Moved the site to another web host. Guess what? Forms are working perfectly!

My wife and I received a couple of Olive Garden gift certificates as wedding presents, but there isn’t an Olive Garden restaurant near our home, so it was a number of months before we actually got to use them. This afternoon, however, we were moving some items from a storage unit I have in Hayward, and were near enough around dinner time that we dropped by.

We arrived at Olive Garden in Fremont at around 5:30 and were surprised how many people were waiting out front. The wait was around 45 minutes, but that is exactly how long they told us it would be when we signed in.

After we were seated our waiter visited promply and took our drink orders. He arrived quickly with the house red and proceeded to fill our glasses to about 1/4 inch from the very top. “We got our money’s worth” I told my wife. We ordered, and our food arrived quickly and was very good.

When we had finished and I was chewing my last bit, I felt a crunch on one of my molars. At first I thought I had lost a filling, but on closer inspection I realized I had been chewing on a piece of broken glass. Just about that time the manager was making his rounds and asked us how our meals were. I replied that everything was good except for the broken glass in my food, and showed him the shard. He, of course, apologized profusely and replaced my almost-finished meal with a new one. He also took the price of my meal off of the bill and gave us a $25 gift certificate. Well, maybe if it doesn’t hurt coming out, I’ll give Olive Garden in Fremont another try.