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MAMA III

Posted on October 15, 2005February 10, 2017 by Ian C.

Back home from MAMA 3 (see this MINI2 thread) – lots of MINIs and loads of water! There was heavy rain during my drive up to Keene, and also during some of the drive today – but none of this spoiled the fun we all had; there were a few route changes due to the floods, and one U-turn!

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Our lunch stop was at Cathedral Of The Pines which happily offered a tent & dry benches:

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On the return journey we stopped in Harrisville – we would have enjoyed a tour of the ex-mill town, if the weather had been more friendly. Instead we were in awe of the water again:

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Sadly there was very little fall foliage:

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A great day: seeing loads of MINI friends and meeting some new ones, enjoying some great twisty roads and not drowning are all good. Thanks Annette for the brownies too 🙂

Web Hosting – Avoid PowWeb!

Posted on October 11, 2005February 10, 2017 by Ian C.

If you want to host a web site, DO NOT choose crappy PowWeb; you might remember that I switched to them early this year and quickly had loads of trouble; eventually I switched again (to InMotionHosting who have been excellent) …
I also had MINIsOnTop hosted with PowWeb – that moved to a service provided by MINI owner Rich (BungleSolutions)
But since then I have been beating my head against the wall trying to get a refund from PowWeb!

Back on July 25th I wrote and told them to close down the MINIsOnTop service; the PowWeb web site claims “Cancellations are processed in 7 to 10 business days from receipt”.
It took four days for them to acknowledge and close the account (July 29: we have canceled your hosting package).
I then waited … and waited … and eventually sent another email on September 8, reminding them that they still owe me more than $100.

It took them SIX days this time to reply: Somehow your cancelation case was closed before the refund was processed. That is the reason for the delay. I have reopened the case and assigned it to a
manager for the refund. That will be processed within the next 24-48 hours

Well, guess what?! The $100+ is still held by PowWeb 😦
My credit card company won’t do anything because the original purchase was too long ago – so I guess PowWeb think it is fine to just ignore me. But at least hopefully a few people will “hear this message” and avoid them.

I love my car!

Posted on October 8, 2005February 10, 2017 by Ian C.

Sometimes it is the silly things that give the most pleasure … tonights weather for example:

Very wet roads tonight, and lots of cars going much too slowly … so I head off to pick up Thai for dinner, via the two route 128 rotaries (not via the more direct route that Google Maps suggests).
A nice 3/4 left round the first rotary, then a blast along the straight to the second, half way round that and down the hill to the lights & STOP at the bottom. Passing everything on the way and loving the fact that my car/tires holds tight to the road, Xenon headlight visibilty is great, my sound system plays great entertaining music … everything is just EXCELLENT 🙂

So after picking up dinner, I U-turn and head home the same, longer, way 🙂