Shawn Olson Guestbook

David Lawson said: [ Regarding Hole in my Heel ]

Hi Shawn,

Like Hi Long below, I too came across your story by accident and have really only found stories around tendonitis or an animal that has had a ruptured achilles.

Like you and Hi Long, my achilles was severed. I had a plate travel straight and true through my heel. At first it was the strangest sensation, everything was numb. When I looked behind me a I a sizeable hole just above my heel. At this stage I had no blood. I knew that I had to get to hospital because, whilst I was still in no pain, I knew something was definitely amiss. As I started to hop to get a taxi to hospital all the blood finally began to flow through the hole. I guess I was lucky the cab driver took me with the blood I was spilling everywhere. At hospital I was rushed straight through to the docs.
I had my foot repaired and spent 8 weeks in plaster. Once the plaster was removed I was tentatively walking around and had inserts in my shoes. On an interstate business trip one week after my plaster came off I stood, incorrectly, on a step and I felt my newly repaired achilles snap again. I think my body had saved up all the pain from the first time and added it to the pain I felt standing on the stairs in a crowded train station. I began to cry, partly due to the excruciating pain, but moreso at the fact I was resigned to another operation, another stretch in plaster (7 months this time), followed the most incredible pyhsiotherapy - that hurt too.

That accident took me from Feb - December 2004 (with physio) and a while after to feel confident being mobile again. I play sports regularly now but still, sometimes, have an issue with confidence around my achilles. I wouldnt wish that injury upon anyone, but I will thank you for your email, having people able to relate to this type of injury helps.

John Lindsey said: [ See Comment Stimulus ]

We found the same toad in our back yard by our pool. We live in Troy MO. It measured about 3/16 of an inch. We were amazed at how tiny it was. Our camera wouldn't zoom in enough to get a good close up of it. We would also like to know what it is!

Shawn Olson said: [ See Comment Stimulus ]

I have updated the function. It now works in Google Chrome.

walter gallant said: [ Regarding Streaming Video using ASX files on Internet Explorer not working in Windows Vista ]

I own a company who creates the smi files for streaming video and had a problem where the subtitles just stopped under Visa only. My problem was different, but what you mentioned gave me an idea.

The subtitles were working, then stopped.
What happened was I added a 'package of codec's' and that stopped the subtitles.

I don't know why, but they are working.
thanks for the pointer.

roboMachine MAN said: [ Regarding Select All Checkboxes in a Form with JavaScript ]

Why don't you make it open source?

Simon McEwen said: [ Regarding Scams to make you feel cool ]

Thank you for drawing my attention to this. Whilst I will not personally be joining their registry, I do take my hat off to them! They seem to be charging you money to get your name on a mailing list! Why can't I think of ideas like that.

Shawn Olson said: [ See Comment Stimulus ]

I am sorry that the article bothered you. At the same time I would hope that you can garner a deeper layer of meaning. I am not saying that we would all be carrying weapons in a perfect world... I said we would be able to carry them without concern because of higher cultural standards. I certainly doubt that civilization will tend towards more weapon-carrying habits; on the contrary, I expect we will move away from violence.

The truth is that the perfect world will never exist because of our often conflicting emotions and instincts. But even though there is no perfect world... we can always learn from our world and try to mold it into something we think is better.

And.. you are correct in saying that there would never be a need for articles like this in a perfect world. And I am sure that there would be very little need for any kind of writing in a perfect world... since we would all already know everything.

Tabi P. said: [ Regarding Observation on Trust in Society ]

I disagree. In some respects, especially with, "in a perfect world we would all be able to carry fire arms." What exactly would you be useing a fire arm for that would make its use responsible? Why would someone carry a shotgun or rifle consistently, for use responsibly? The responsible thing for that is to not carry it, to only take it hunting. Also, if everyone were carrying guns tension would be higher, accidents more frequent. In a perfect world there would be no need for firearms. In a perfect world there would be no need for articles like this...

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Daniel Condurachi said: [ See Comment Stimulus ]

Last week I went to Egypt together with my wife for our honeymoon. Right before going into a submarine my Canon EOS 450D stopped working. When I opened it up it told me Err 99. I had the kit lens on. I tried my other lens a 85 1.8. It still didn't want to work. It was so disappointing. I tied the other batter. Still the same Err 99. It ruined my honeymoon. I was down and upset the entire journey to Egypt. Canon let me down.

Coming home I found that all the other Canon dSLRs have the same problem. Before I was thinking to an upgrade to 40D or 50D. But now I am thinking of an upgrade to NIKON. The camera broke just after 13 months from purchase +-a few days.

When I got home I looked at the photos. The last 2 of them had a huge black diagonal ribbon from bottom left to top right. It is very disappointing.

I am sending the camera for repair. I hope it will not be expensive to repair. If it is I'll just throw the camera out of the balcony and switch to NIKON for life. D700 here I come

Daniel,

Lennart Moltrecht said: [ Regarding Altering CSS Class Attributes with JavaScript ]

This works fine on Firefox, but not on Google Chrome. Can you please fix that? Thanks

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Marilyn K Dorlac said: [ See Comment Stimulus ]

Well I would just like to let you know that it is about time all of us suckers come together and give this fake Cambridge Company some of their own medicine. what I would like to do is put out our own book on real professional Business People all over the world instead of people that they have suckered into paying thousand of dollars to put into their book. i all most fell for their prank then realized that they are really bulling me and attacking my real hard working life and trying to make me look like a real joke of some kind . So I fight back and stand up to them and just say no that I would not give in to them, Boy were they nasty and mean to me. I still fought back and just left what money I had lost with them which was about $300.00. I even ended up almost cussing several of the jerks out which is something that I rarely have to do. They are stalkers and jerks we must continue to put the word out about them to protect other against them. Please any one reading this blog please blog one for me. Thanks a million LOD!!! This is the way that we can fight back! They are a scam and they will do anything to get your money. They even went so far as to send me a book without my story in it! Just to make me feel bad! Oh boy I was relieved not to be in their scam book! Ha ha ha! Please blog this story! tell all of your friends to blog this as well!!!

Simon Lowe said: [ Regarding Scams to make you feel cool ]

I was also taken in by their flattery, sales technique and false claims. Similar to so many other complaints I also realized the stupidity of my ways very quickly and demanded a refund the very next day.
I was contacted by their complaint resolution manager and we started on a 3 week circus involving email exchanges, voice mail messages and then listening in to a recording of my call where the words "all sales are final" (which was quickly spoken and even on a 2nd listen barely audible), was interpreted by CWW as NO REFUNDS.
After a lot of hassling they agreed to a refund minus $100 for "costs already incurred". They then sent me a letter to sign that included this text...........:As discussed, this is a letter acknowledging the resolution reached today. Please sign it at the bottom and return it immediately. Upon receipt of your signed letter, absent of editorial adjustments and/or comments, your credit in the amount of $500.00 will be processed and posted to your account within 10-12 business days. This will close your membership. This offer is valid only if returned to our establishment no later than .
I refused as it was not a full refund.
After a few more less polite emails, voice mail, and phone calls they agreed to a full refund.

I will say one thin in support of CWW, the lady that I was dealing with was always pleasant and DID return my emails and phone calls. I was a little surprised at this.

Anyway, my advice is to have NOTHING to do with them. It is probably NOT a scam in the true sense of the word, but really has NO value and anyone that signs up and is happy with it is NOT worth networking with.

IF you do get caught as I did, be unrelenting in your requests for a refund. EMail via their website EVERY night, leave voice mails EVERY day and do NOT accept NO for an answer. They have NO right to keep your money. Their call recording is for Quality Assurance purposes and NOT a legally binding contract, they are not even allowed to present it as such.

roberet m said:

Wonderful site. Looking for more updates

Emily Hansen said:

Great site! I really enjoyed it. Creative arts has always been a passion of mine.

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Piet van Asten said: [ See Comment Stimulus ]

since a couple of days I have exactly the same problem, and also I am not able to find any solution for this.
Just this workaround.
But I discovered also some other strange thing.
If I start the internetpage with the embedded streaming from my local Harddisk I don't have the problem. If the same html-file is on the internet and I start it, it will not play the streaming video.
So it must be some internet-protection which blocks this,
But which one?????

Sandy Feliciano said: [ Regarding Scams to make you feel cool ]

OH My!!! Thank God for guiding me to read this and Google, right before i was going to start filling out the process online. I have been scam with other company's on line, but this one is a very wicked way to steel ppl money. How in heck would u have the nerve to go out to middle class ppl and lie in their face to go after their money?? not only that, but in this moments of difficult economical crisis?? What are these company's thinking?? Thank you,Thank You,Thank You, for posting this. I wonder how they get my address and mail me this letter. I'm pretty sure they access this when ever i do purchases online..RRRRRR I hate scamers!!

Jeremy Ludowyke said:

Nice site! Very interesting indeed!

op said: [ See Comment Stimulus ]

i think the err 99 could be a error with aperture control. My ef 75-300 4-5.6 III broke down with a noise when zooming and after that i could only take pictures with 300mm (f5.6). Every time i tried with smaller zoom&aperture, err99 appeared. I disassembled the objective and found out that the electric connections into aperture control were broken loose. So everything except aperture control was working and the result was err 99 when shooting with "wrong" aperture.

Samuel Crow said: [ Regarding Fun - the Golden Retriever Way ]

My father was 79 when he got Sugar also a Golden. When he was 80, it was my Dad's last week and Sugar knew what was happening. On one of my Father's bad event nights, and we were gathered around him, I backed up and stepped on Sugar's paws and what amazed me he didn't yelp, bark and when I tried to apologize he looked at me as if to say, I know. These are one of my favorite breeds and are so gentle.

Chris said: [ Regarding The Big Insurance Scam ]

News flash for the insurance-lovers out there: INSURANCE COMPANIES WOULD GO BROKE IF THEY PAID US MORE MONEY THAN WE PAID THEM. Insurance should only be used for catastrophic risks. Americans have become so ignorant of this, that companies like GM have been effectively bankrupted by labor that expects ridiculously comprehensive insurance. Insurance should not pay for very likely events - your cavity in your lower left molar, your wife's pregnancy, your yearly checkup. This only increases the overall cost. You used to pay the doctor or dentist for their services, now you pay them AND the insurance company - they all need to be paid. We aren't ahead by including insurance companies into the game for routine expenses. Figure it out, folks.