November 15, 2007 by burnettb317
I’ve been trying to cancel my old web service for 7 months now and get this they finally are going to cancel me:
—–Original Message—–
From: support@aspnow.com [mailto:support@aspnow.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 4:01 AM
To: burnettb@integraonline.com
Subject: Outstanding Balance Notification
Dear Ben Burnett,
Please be aware that your hosting account 96582 has had an outstanding balance since Sep 9, 2007. As of Sep 13, 2007, your current outstanding balance is -$41.70. Please make arrangements to remit payment immediately. If payment is not remitted in a timely manner your account will be suspended on Sep 27, 2007.
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us.
Regards,
Support Team
support@mavweb.net
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So I had to reply: ( I was a bit ticked off, as the tone of the message suggests)
Please suspend it now, I’ve been trying to get you to suspend it for 9 months (since January) I’ve used one stop payment, and since have canceled the credit card, if you’d read your e-mail and act the requests of your customers you’d have saved me a lot of grief, I will never recommend your service to anyone, in fact I plan on posting a negative review about ASPNOW, MavWeb and any other keyword I can think of about your poor service and response to 7 nice cancellation requests!
Have a good day,
–Ben
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I still don’t think they will respond, but I thought I’d try, either way the ordeal is finally done since the credit crad they were using is now gone 
have a good day,
–Ben
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October 12, 2007 by burnettb317
Everyone,
Since all (most) social networking (business or personal) sites work by linking/finding people we know by looking up unique e-mail addresses, what do we do to find people that we don’t have an e-mail for, but maybe an old phone #, old town, name, some location or background info etc. is there any service or system that helps us find and connect to these past contacts/freinds/colleagues? I just did an outlook address book lookup on Xing, and it did a name lookup of Xing members on my non-e-mail-matching contacts and gave me a list of possibilities, but since I’m in the USA and xing is mainly europe (or for other reasons) Xing does not have many of my contacts, however I’m sure the LinkedIn, MySpace, and Facebook would have many people I know.
Can anyone help me with this problem? Also I have some technical ideas of a way to search and find people in an automated way on the open internet, but don’t have the time to implement. If anyone is interested, or if anyone knows where I could find the data definition specs of an outlook *.pst file that would be great.
Thanks,
–Ben Burnett
Ben Burnett
R&D Software Engineer: wired, wireless, ad hoc, mesh networking,
network monitoring and data visualization
ATC (Architecture Technology Corporation) http://www.atcorp.com/
bburnett@atcorp.com (952) 829-5864 x167
——–Views expressed are mine and not those of ATC——–
Personal:
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September 27, 2007 by burnettb317
I am looking for other FarmHouse Fraternity Alumni to join me in starting some on-line groups and forums.
Since 1905, FarmHouse has been a builder of men. “The object of our fraternity is to promote good fellowship, to encourage studiousness, and to inspire its members in seeking the best in their chosen lines of study as well as in life….” FH has 30 active chapters with at least 6000 Alumni. http://www.farmhouse.org/
“FarmHouse Fraternity Alums for Networking” [http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/FarmHouse-Networking/] is a discussion group for all Alumni of FarmHouse Fraternity who wish to network with each other. The group is meant to help FH alum reconnect and discuss networking and partnership ideas.
In addition This group has a corresponding group on LinkedIn (www.LinkedIn.com) and can also be used to discuss and learn how to use Linkedin to help members professionally and to help them do better business.
Whether you are a current FHer or have been an alum for 20-60 years, FarmHouse Fraternity Alums for Networking should help you and provide all the information you’ll need to know in order to use Linkedin like a professional online business networker.
Join FarmHouse Fraternity Alumni on LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/28421/5764A8562860).
A similar yahoo group for FH-ISU alumni can be found here as well: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FH-ISU-alums/
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September 27, 2007 by burnettb317
I am looking for other 4H Alumni to join me in starting some on-line groups and forums.
4-H is a 100 year old non-profit program operated by each state’s land grant university and Cooperative Extension Service. There are over 7 million current 4-Hers in the United States alone, making a group of many many millions of 4H alumni. 4H emphasise Leadership, Citizenship, and Community. http://www.4husa.org/
LinkedIn_4-H_Alum is a discussion group [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LinkedIn_4-H_Alum/] for all LinkedIn professionals who are also 4-H alum. the group is meant to help 4-H alum reconnect and discuss future networking and partnership ideas as well as discuss and learn how to use Linkedin to help them professionally and to help them do better business.
Whether you are a current 4-Her or have been an alum for 20-60 years, LinkedIn_4-H_Alum provides all the information you’ll need know in order to use Linkedin like a professional online business networker.
Join 4H Alumni on LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/27829/423C5842998D).
A similar yahoo group for Iowa 4H alumni can be found here as well: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Iowa4HAlum/
A similar yahoo group for Story County Iowa 4H alumni can be found here as well: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Iowa4HAlumStoryCounty/
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September 13, 2007 by burnettb317
Navy SBIR Phase I win:
Topic Number: N07-151
Proposal Title: Agent based Viral Object Caching and Dissemination Overlay (AVOCADO)
Technical Abstract:Improved dissemination of software, updates, messages, and data in tactical networks require new and adaptive systems to improve war fighter’s decision making abilities, performance and systems readiness. Degradation of services across platforms needs to be avoided while reducing update times for C4I applications, techniques and technologies in tactical networks including remote nodes with limited and intermittent communications. The Agent based Viral Object Caching and Dissemination Overlay (AVOCADO) system provides a novel dissemination system for existing networks (such as the GCCS-M in Tactical networks) based on an overlay data caching system using agents, data objects, and automation scripts. Existing update management systems send files from a base node to each other node, causing countless redundant data paths. AVOCADO will stop redundant data transfer and wasted bandwidth while guaranteeing delivery of data, software and updates to all needed nodes.
Paper to be published at MILCOM07 (http://www.milcom.org/):
Multi-Radio Nodes for Mobile Mesh Networks for Emergency Response and Battle Command Systems
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September 13, 2007 by burnettb317
I’ve been trying to cancel my old web service for 7 months now and get this they finally are going to cancel me:
—–Original Message—–
From: support@aspnow.com [mailto:support@aspnow.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 4:01 AM
To: burnettb@integraonline.com
Subject: Outstanding Balance Notification
Dear Ben Burnett,
Please be aware that your hosting account 96582 has had an outstanding balance since Sep 9, 2007. As of Sep 13, 2007, your current outstanding balance is -$41.70. Please make arrangements to remit payment immediately. If payment is not remitted in a timely manner your account will be suspended on Sep 27, 2007.
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us.
Regards,
Support Team
support@mavweb.net
————————————————
So I had to reply: ( I was a bit ticked off, as the tone of the message suggests)
Please suspend it now, I’ve been trying to get you to suspend it for 9 months (since January) I’ve used one stop payment, and since have canceled the credit card, if you’d read your e-mail and act the requests of your customers you’d have saved me a lot of grief, I will never recommend your service to anyone, in fact I plan on posting a negative review about ASPNOW, MavWeb and any other keyword I can think of about your poor service and response to 7 nice cancellation requests!
Have a good day,
–Ben
————————————————
I still don’t think they will respond, but I thought I’d try, either way the ordeal is finally done since the credit crad they were using is now gone
have a good day,
–Ben
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January 23, 2007 by burnettb317
Welcome to Ben’s Blog or BBB. This Blog is meant mainly to be a place holder to point to my dedicated website (www.burnett.ws) and the blog hosted there. I will occasionally cross-post items here as well as on the full-time Blog which can be found here: http://www.burnett.ws/bin/view.pl/Main/BensBlog Thank you for visiting and reading.
–Ben
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