Mecworks

Amazing, cool rhymes, awesome video. Nice commentary on the worlds view of beauty and what it imposes on beliefs and affects behaviours. (if you are viewing this from a site that aggregates my blog, there is an embedded video below that you won’t be able to see so click through to see the actual story on my blog).

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So, it was late last night and not really wanting to sleep, against my better judgement I began browsing some of the cool links I have collected over the past few weeks. One of my favorites has been a collection of free or otherwise freely available movies and documentaries at http://www.jonhs.net/freemovies/

I spend a few days last week building up and preparing a new server to replace the old pIII 800MHz machine that mecworks.com has been running on for the last several years. The machine hosts several virtual hosts, email, DNS, MySQL, and a few other services. While the pIII was holding it’s own, the hardware was old, and it could use a faster processor.

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OK, so I have an equity line of credit at US Bank on my home which equates to an interest only loan/second mortgage. My goal has been to pay it off as soon as possible and so when I have a significant amount saved, I pay some of it down. Last month I went to my local US Bank office and deposited two checks, one for $8,000.00 and the other for $200.00. I explained that the $8000.00 check was to be paid on the principle of the loan while the $200.00 was for the next automatic withdraw and should be deposited in my checking account.

The clerk deposited the checks and claimed to have made the application of the $8000.00 to the principle, thereby reducing the amount of my total mortgage. She even gave me a new balance that seemed to reflect the applied money.

Today I went in to deposit some money for my next payment and learned that there was nothing due. Asking why, the clerk responded that “oh, you have paid an $8000.00 payment towards future payments so you have paid ahead of schedule”.

What the crap!!!!!!!!!

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