Well, NO. my little three years old boys are very sick so I need to get them out of the day care. they keep getting ear infection so bad even the ear tube is not working. so, now do I give my $5000.00 to the government as a donation or keep my kids in the day care and loose the hearing? what is going on?
I was told I can change this Dependant care account ONLY in the case of a life change! well, is not this a life change? when a member of the family is very sick and has to go through an operation "Ear Tube", the operation does not work and keeps getting sick. Would not this be a life change?
My Kids and Ear Infection is becoming a weekly issue. That is why I wanted to start this blog to talk about my experience and more important is to also hear from other parents opinions and experience.
Well, I will start with my twins, they are about 3yrs old boys. They started to go to day care about three months ago. since they started with the daycare, they started getting exposed to germs and viruses and the ear infection started too. every few weeks they have ear infection. They take turns or some times they both get ear infection at the same time. To be more accurate, one of them is more suseptive to the ear infection. We ended up going through the specialest that suggested an ear tube operation and also remove the adenoid tissue. His opinion was that will stop the fluid from staying in his inner ear and will eleminate the ear infedction.
To make the long story short for now. the ear infection never stoped. in addtion to the ear infection, now the tube is stuck and stoped working, the tube is moved and going to fall, as the doctor said. the problems do not stop. they keep adding up. and now my second son is going to need ear tube if he gets ear infection again. what should I do?
If you are one of us that have some kids and like to do something active with them specially on a rainy weekend, then you must thought about going to Chuck E Cheese at least once! :)
It is a great place to spend some good time with your kids and let them play and have fun. At the same time it is usually safe and secure so you do not have to worry about your kids getting lost or hurt.
The problem is when you find out that their customer service sucks and is run by some untrained young hosts that they have no experience or raining on how to work with the customer.
I been going to Chuck E Cheese for ever, going on the weekends, on weeknights, but this weekend, I took my wife and two years old twins to Chuck E Cheese in “Manchester, CT.” and I was shocked by the very cold and nasty service I received from the so called “on site Manager”.
After we walked-in and find a table in the very crowded place, one of the hosts that work there came and told us that we have to buy the food and get the order number before we can have a table. But when my wife explained to her that I am standing in line already trying to order, the hosts said that it is OK then and when I get the number I need to bring it to the “Reception desk” to register the table in my name.
But while I am standing in line to order my food, another hosts that standing in the “Reception desk” calls me and tells me that I can not have the table and I have to buy the food first. So I told her that that is what I am doing and I have to have a table to set my wife and little twins before I can leave them to order the food. So she said “I do not care and if someone else come with an order number I will set them and remove you from the table”! I told her that this is not going to work for me as I will not order my food and pay them money if my wife is holding the coats, kids stuff and my two little kids and standing in the middle of this crowd. So she told me OK, go and order the food quick and bring the order number to me.
Few minutes while I am standing in line I look and see my wife holding everything in her hands and my kids are crying and she is standing in the middle of the crowd does not know what to do. I immediately knew what happened, so I called her and asked her to stand in line to reserve my place and went looking for the manager.
When I found the manager, very politely asked her what happened, she goes the rule here is that you order your food first then we will set you. So I told her about the discussion I had with the hosts and that I am already in line ordering the food. She goes, I do not care, I told her that this is not a good customer service and this is not how it works, when we go to any place we should be seated then I can peacefully order the food, not looking at my wife chasing my little kids with our coats and kids bags in her hand. The attitude I got from her that she is the manager and that is how she will manage the place.
I told her that as a customer I will not stand in line to order food and pay them my money while my wife and kids are standing in the middle of the crowd like this and with a nasty customer service like this. Again the answer was she is not interested to hear my argument and that she will do what she think is right for her. I expressed my disappointment and told her that I am not happy with this attitude, I am taking my wife and twins and leaving, I called my friends that I was suppose to meet there, three families with their kids, and told them to change the plan and go to the mall instead. She did have an expression on her face like “Whatever!”
Here is the real issue, some places forgot that their main goal is to serve the customer well and that they need to train their employees and prepare them to be able to interact and respect the customers, provide the best service so the customer would be happy and comeback. But instead, they are just money making machines, all they want is to make sure you go and pay your money and does not matter if they need to respect or make the customer happy.
When we left and I was talking to my wife, she told me that the manager come and set some other people in the table where she was setting and told her that she need to remove our belongs from the table and leave the table. She did not care if that behavior has no respect or made my wife uncomfortable.
Here are some info on how to do an Autoscroll for your program controls
TextBox autoscroll
textBox1.SelectionStart = textBox1.Text.Length;
textBox1.ScrollToCaret();
ListBox autoscroll
listBox1.SelectedIndex = listBox1.Items.Count - 1;
listBox1.SelectedIndex = -1;
ListView autoscroll
listView1.EnsureVisible(listView1.Items.Count - 1);
TreeView autoscroll
treeView1.Nodes[treeView1.Nodes.Count - 1].EnsureVisible();
DataGridView autoscroll
dataGridView1.FirstDisplayedCell =
dataGridView1.Rows[dataGridView1.Rows.Count - 1].Cells[0];
Here we go again, after all this waiting, MAC comes up with a new handicapped version of iPhone v3.0!
I bought the latest iPhone 3G and three weeks later they announce the new iPhone 3GS. So, I say it is OK, as there will be a new firmware update, v3.0. This update will contains all kind of new fixes and enhancements. when they release the new firmware, what a crippled software. It only works on the new iPhone 3GS with its new hardware and they left out the iPhone 3G. So, with so advanced iPhone 3G you can not use voice recognition, take Videos, there is no task manager, etc... And the story goes on and on... I remember long time ago when they introduced the first cell phones with cameras they had 20% of the iPhone capabilities and still, were able to take pictures, videos and had voice dial. So, what am I missing here? Is it me or it is really that MAC likes to play games and just will use people to make as much money as they can?
If you ever wanted to implement sounds into your application you probably came across the API provided by the Visual Studio .Net "System.Media.SoundPlayer" and found out that it does not work or works fine with your files!!!!
Well, that is what I been doing for the last hour trying to implement the sound functionality in my application using C# C Sharp in Visual Studio 2008 and failed few times to play my wave files and my midi files using that library "System.Media.SoundPlayer" . So what is going on here?
Here is the quick answer, I found out that there are several types/formats for the wav files and that "System.Media.SoundPlayer" library does not support all of them. However if you try playing these files using mplayer under windows they will play fine.
Here is a good link to learn more about the wav files format http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wav.
One of the two solutions is to use another approatch to play the wav file, here is some code example:
where in your code when you need to play the sound:
And yes this code works fine, so far ONLY with wav files.
So what do you need to do when you need to play a midi or mp3 file?
mciSendString is used to play the midi, mp3 files. and the mciGetErrorString is used to findout what error returned from the mciSendString to debug your code... very helpfull.
now here is the code I used to play mp3/midi files
In this function you will be able to pass the file name and type, 'd' = midi and 'p' = mp3 and it will play the file for you. Moreover, if you are interested in the return value from the mciSendString the mciGetErrorString will give you a plain error message that you can read and display to find out why for some reason the file is not playing.
MicroSoft reference page for the Multimedia Command Strings msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms712587(VS.85).aspx
I agree, there is something wrong with this editor that misses up my code. very bad, I will have to do some thing about it. So I will be adding a link to my other blogs where I can insert codes.
Well, if you bought the iPhone 3G a month and a half ago, then you are like me. Stuck with this device that you paid a lot for and have to keep for the next 2 years. I read on the internet and found out that everyone said that Apple will not release a new hardware only software that will allow the iPhone to take videos and voice dialup and other new futures. so I decided to buy the iPhone and wait for the firmware update. few weeks later I find the new iPhone hardware and that the new firmware will work partially on the old 3G and needs the 3GS to have all new futures!!! I am very disappointed.
Now, do I go for the jailbreak or not? I really do not like to use any hacks because they end up missing things and there is no warranty. but, the iPhone 3G is not fully usefull device without some extra futures that you can only get by jailbreaking it.
any ideas or thoughts.
I keep hearing about the iPhone and how great that Mac phone is. So I finally decided to get it.
I had an HP IPAQ PDA that runs Windows CE 5.0 and I always liked so much. It gave me a lot of futures and continues access to my data anywhere I go.
I just wanted to combine both my PDA and Phone into one smart device that saves me the hassle of carrying two different devices every where I go.
So, here I go and upgrade my phone with AT&T to the new iPhone 3G and sign up for two years contract.
First impression, I will be paying $30.00 monthly charge for the unlimited data package, weather I like it or not it is a mandatory if I wanted to have the iPhone. When I used it, it is very impressive. It has a very nice display and design, sharp looking. It has a nice collection of very useful programs. But, I do not know if it is me or what, I started to hit some obstacles immediately when I started to use it. Here is a quick list and then I will talk about them next:
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File system not accessible!!!
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Can not sync email from Outlook, notes, tasks!!!
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Can not take a video with that so advanced phone!!!
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Bluetooth surprisingly does not support any communication types. It is useless!!!
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You do not have the option to copy, cut, or paste any text or objects !!!
Finally, I find that if you are a business person that used to the IPAQ PDA, do not even think about wasting your money and time. iPhone is still so far beyond your needs. I can only see a phone with a lot of recourses to play games and chat or browse the internet.