Windows Mobile .MPB files taking up space

I have a Samsung i760 windows mobile smartphone. I have had it since the beginning of July. Switching from my Palm Treo 700P was a great upgrade. Having real email and being able to receive my .wma attachments and play them has been a huge benefit since my voicemail system sends the message as an audio file attachment.

But I've noticed the phone slowly getting slower and slower and more unstable over time. My storage memory space had been reduced down to just over ten megabytes and I could not find any other way to clear this out. However, I just installed MemMaid and found that the windows/messaging folder had over 40mb of files ending with the .mpb file extension. After some research online, there was not a lot of information but I deduced that these files were left over email that were not deleted when the message was removed. I backed up my outlook files on my pc and then connected the phone w/ activesync. Once connected, I went into file manager and deleted the over 300 .mpb files and now I have over 50mb of space in the Storage Memory. It's quite liberating actually, being able to reclaim this space that was just being wasted for no good reason. One thing is for sure, MS just does not comprehend the concept of lean and mean. MS is definitely the king of bloat. I have not yet done much with MemMaid, but it seems like a great tool and I will probably end up registering it considering that it helped me find over 40mb of crap wasting space on the phone.

Anyway, I wanted to share this in hopes that it may help someone else experiencing the same windows mobile storage memory issues.

Palm just doesn't give a damn about it's customers

That was made very clear today when I tried to contact someone at Palm about the fact that their new forum registration is broken for those who were previously registered to use the palm forums. I completed the first step of the process, confirming my email and my user name. The palm forums, powered by lithium.com, are "new" and in order to use the new palm forums, previous uses have to jump through some hoops to be able to do so.

After receiving the 'welcome' message via email with the link to verify my information, I filled out the remaining fields that were not already pre-populated (my user name and my email address). I put in a new password, checked the boxes to indicate that I'm over 13 years of age and that I agree to the terms of service. I click on "submit" and the form just comes back to itself, the password fields empty and no error messages.

After 24 hours, I decided to call palm. That turned out to be a huge mistake. First of all, no one at palm wants to talk to a palm customer. So they make finding any phone number difficult. Next, they force you through a stupid question and answer session to "get you to the correct department". Only one problem, there is no department for your website is broken. And so, as to be expected, the packi's on the other end have no clue about the palm website and all they can do is say "try it again in three hours". Yea, that was really helpful.

I tried calling corporate relations, I actually spoke to someone for whom English is not a second language. Problem again, they knew nothing about the website and said there is no one they can refer me to resolve this issue. So it seems that some phantom web development team swooped in from out of the blue, put this site online and vanished, never to be seen from again. So what's the friggin' point of having this "support" section if it cannot be used without setting up a brand new account, using a different email address? Now most of you will probably say, "well, why not just do that?" The answer is because I have one main email address that I use and I don't want to have to bounce here and there to read my email messages.

The real problem is that palm really does not really care about its customers. If you're a prospective customer, they'll court you but once you spend the cash, all you'll hear are crickets.

So I guess this is my final wake up call to throw away the palm tx and buy a windows based pda. I like my tx, but not at the expense of being treated like a leper because I'm a customer.

Creating a standalone sitemap

I got the idea from another site I found through one of the webmaster forums I read. I created a standalone sitemap with the hopes of it getting noticed and forwarding some love to the destination. This will be an interesting experience.

Amoeba's have more intelligence than MoDot

I would like to know why the traffic signals along Olive, in front of Monsanto at old olive have been changed from sensor activated signals to timed signals? It is incredibly annoying to now have to wait for a red light on Olive when the lights are green for cross traffic that does not exist.

I have always felt that the collective intelligence at modot was about equal to an amoeba, and this kind of stupid, ignorant change in the way traffic signals function for no reason other than to inconvenience and irritate those of us that actually have to pass through those intersections on a daily basis, is proof of modot’s lack of intelligence and complete disregard for the motorists.

It always amazes me when I read an article in the paper or hear something on the news about how modot is “surprised” by the fact that most people in Missouri loath your bloated, arrogant, useless organization. Yet proof of how stupid modot is, can be found all over. From the really stupid design of Manchester Rd from 270 which has been the cause of numerous serious traffic accidents, west to traffic signals that now change to green for ghost traffic, modot is certainly consistently retarded.

Circuit City Sucks

Below is the complaint I sent to Circuit City because of the absolutely lousy service and lack of response from the store manager. For my trouble, they said they are sending a $10 gift card. I haven't seen it yet:

Circuit City Stores, Inc.
Attn: Customer Support
9954 Mayland Dr.
Richmond, VA 23233

I purchased two products online last night and I drove to the Brentwood location (in St. Louis) to pick them up as well as to buy two SD cards that were on sale.

My ticket numbers are:

37670154xxx
37670154xxx

My experience with this store was underwhelming. First, the stored seemed to be a huge cavern and hardly a sale associate to be found. I did find a female employee in the middle of the store that informed me the SD cards were in cameras. I went to the camera department to find one sales rep behind the counter, talking with a customer. There was no one else around with whom I could inquire as to the location of the memory cards. So I gave up and started searching all of the racks near the cameras. I finally found what I was looking for and not once did anyone ask if I needed assistance.

Now, having picked out the memory cards, I went to the camera counter because I'm interested in upgrading to a newer digital camera. Now, there was no one behind the counter and in the 15 minutes I looked at Olympus, Sony and Cannon, not once was assistance offered.

Abandoning the cameras, I went to the merchandise pick up counter where I found a female employee filling out some kind of form, talking with another employee who was in the back room and not once did she acknowledge my presence. After more than a minute, I asked if anyone there was going to assist me. Her attitude was anything but friendly.

Now at this point, my desire to be in any circuit city store, let alone this one, was about equal to being at the dentist without Novocain. Finally, after being given my purchased products, I went to the checkout register to pay for my SD memory cards, only to find that the light was on, but no one was home. The light indicating the register was open, was lit, but there was no one around the register and I had to wait for some time for a clerk to finally accept my purchase.

Now, as you can imagine, my level of satisfaction with this store was extremely low. I asked to speak to the store manager. The clerk picked up the phone, spoke to someone and asked "do you want the store manager or just any manager?"

Apparently there are many chiefs and few indians. I replied that any manager would be acceptable. After more than two minutes, she informed me that a manager was back near the customer pickup desk and that I could go over there to speak with him. I declined, left the store and this novella is the result.

I will probably not every patronize this store ever again. I’ve always had very good experiences at the store in Crestwood, but the Brentwood location is one of the worst shopping experiences I’ve ever encountered.

I will purchase from Best Buy and other competitors before doing business with Circuit City anytime soon.

The ball is in your court, I’ll be very interested in your response.

Regards,

One Unhappy Customer

Quizno's Sucks - Crap Food - Crap Service

I've been to Quizno's a few times and I've yet to get a sandwich that is even close to what they show on TV. I ordered the new Prime Rib and Peppercorn sub. They put the meat in a small plastic container and dunked it in some kind of hot liquid. I assume it was originally water, but the muddy brown look of the viscous liquid was completely unappetizing. Then, they half heartedly drained the meat before placing it on the bread. When I got back to office, I found the sandwich was runny, the bread was soggy and it was just overall, disgusting. What they show on television looks so wonderful, and what I had in my hand was a wadded up ball of soggy meat (of unknown origin) on bread that was once dry and toasted.

I tried to call to complain, but no-one answered the phone. I tried to email, but Quizno's website apparently does not have any means to contact the corporate office and instead, supposedly directs the email to the local store. I never heard back so I'm guessing the form posts to nothing in hopes that you'll just go away.

So this experience, on top of my fiancé getting sick from a Quizno's sub while we were on vacation, is enough. I'm certainly not ever eating at Quizno's again and I know my fiancé won't either. I'll be dinning at Subway and Penn Station. Quizno's can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.

Crap food and crap service. Kind of makes you wonder how they stay in business.

TealScript 3.83 SUCKS!

This version of tealscript absolutely sucks! I have spent a great deal of time "training" TS on my T|E2. I've edited the characters and retrained the problem characters. The letter "R" being the worst. After retraining over and over, as well as deleting all "R" entries and adding one from scratch, this stuipd program will not recognize an "R". It keeps wanting to enter and "A". Just take a look at these screen shots (I took these with my camera phone) and see for yourself how horrible this version of tealscript behaves.

These are two separate photos as I was working with the utility in tealscript to find out how well it was able to recognize my entries. As you can see, this software is about as useful as a sandbox in the desert. It's capped off by the lack of support by the authoring company. So much for using graffiti I. I hate graffiti II and I wish palm would give us the choice. But then again, palm is another one of those arrogant companies that does not give a rats ass about what the customer want's needs or cares. I may end up having to switch to windows mobile device.