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It looks like SunRocket member services communications are running on auto-pilot. I just got the following email today.
Dear Antonio, Thank you for being a loyal SunRocket member. From time to time we like to check in to hear how you are doing with the service and to learn where we can improve. We sincerely value your business and strive to ensure that your experience is a great one. Please click below to take a short survey and provide your valuable input.
Click here to take the survey.
Thank your for being a valued SunRocket member.
Sincerely,
SunRocket Member Service
SunRocket, Inc.
8045 Leesburg Pike
Suite 300
Vienna, VA 22182
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Too bad the survey link didn’t work. I have some feedback for them.
August 4th, 2007
Just FYI. I never received an email when my number port was completed. My only indication was that my phone stopped working. As mentioned in my previous post, when this happens do the following
- Log into viatalk using your ported number and existing password.
- Goto softfone config and get your new password
- Update your device with new number and password.
Also.. for some reason Brendan (ViaTalk) CEO started answering questions on the DSL Reports forums. I would have expected him on the ViaTalk forums. :-\ His thread is here
August 1st, 2007
The ViaTalk people told me that my number would port on 7/31 (14 days after my order) but I was skeptical. I checked my email throughout the day for confirmation and password.
The mail never came but when I got home my phone was dead. I quickly went to the ViaTalk site to see if my new password was available. I needed to log in with my ported number (and the password I used with the temporary number).
I jumped into the softphone config screen and was happy to see my SunRocket number and a new password. I logged into my AC-211-SR, updated the information, rebooted and was making calls with my old number in no time.
Finally something has gone right. Now I can activate that credit card I got in the mail the day Sunrocket died.
July 31st, 2007
People who know me know I can’t stand general motors cars. In college I got a GM Card and I ended putting my mom on the account so she could use my points towards a GM car.
I don’t claim to know anything about design but I find cars like the Aztec hideous. Also quality of GM cars has been historically low. But as my 1996 VW GTI ages I’ve decided I really need to start looking for a new car.
What do I want? A light all-electric car. Sorry, I don’t want to spend $100,000 on a telsa. I don’t think an affordable all-electric will be available before I need to stop putting money into the GTI.
Compromise? A small and sporty clean diesel. (torque is more important in urban areas than horsepower). Oh wait. Car companies think Americans don’t want diesels.
So that leaves me with a small sporty car that runs on gas. I don’t want a hybrid. Maintaining and carrying 2 drive systems seems wasteful to me.
How about another GTI? No way. I love the car but after 11+ years I need something different. Cooper? Tempting but its soooo small. I really like hatchbacks.
I noticed that GM is bringing the Opel Astra to the States this year under the Saturn nameplate. They are throwing out the diesel option but it still looks nice. It looks a lot like the Dodge Caliber but a little better. Chrysler has great designers but I think the blew it with the Caliber. I think the issue is that they try to use designs that work well on big cars on the compacts and it just doesn’t translate.
Maybe I’ll just have someone bring me an Opel Astra Diesel from Europe. 
I think this rant is done.
July 26th, 2007
I like supporting the little guys so I signed up for ViaTalk after SunRocket dumped me. Before VOIP I was using Cavalier instead of Verizon.
I can’t comment too much on the ViaTalk quality since I just got it working last night but if you sign up use my referral code. 51164 
Sorry. I figured it was worth a try and my Gizmo reconfiguration notes may save you time.
I’ll post more details on trying to get 27 months of ViaTalk for $200 and my number porting progress soon.
ViaTalk was giving 2 years of service for $200 but they switched it to 15 months and up to 12 additional months for people coming from SunRocket. One operator said I would get 27 months but another made it sound like they would buy out the time I have left with SunRocket.
Either way this is the best deal out there. I hope they stay in business.
July 18th, 2007
I can’t stand makeup. It’s fine for covering up a small blemish but when caked on you end up creating an un-human appearance. The issue is that people have been looking a people with makeup on for so long that they start to think that is what beauty is.
Beauty is in the blemishes and minor imperfections!
People instantly think of Tammy Faye but even people like Pamela Anderson look like aliens to me. It’s just not natural.
Of course for people who cake it on its hard to go back, because their poor pores are so clogged from the makeup, that their skin is just one big blemish. Its like a drug, get them started and its impossible to quit. Maybe we should be pursuing the makeup companies instead of tobacco companies.
Yeah. I know, I’m a guy and I have no idea what I am talking about but I can say that I prefer it when my wife wears no makeup.
August 20th, 2006
More than swimming I love to make big splashes from diving boards. My favorite dive is the “watermelon”, it’s a face 1st cannonball and with just the right amount of spin it results in a nice splash.
The problem with this dive as I just recently discovered is that it is pretty dangerous in small pools. I know because I have a handful of stitches in my head now after hitting bottom in a relative’s pool. I’ve been spoiled by my large neighborhood pool and I launch way off the board for dramatic effect. In a small poll this sealed my doom; I slammed into the part of the pool where the deep end slopes up to the shallow end.
As my head hit bottom and I thought “oh god, that was stupid and now I’m going to be paralyzed for life”. Fortunately I was not knocked out so I swam out of the pool and looked for help. This was pretty upsetting for my 4 year old daughter, whom I was trying to splash, as I came up pretty bloody. But at least I didn’t float to the top unconscious and I’m glad that I’m still walking.
Of course now I remember being told several times as a child to always dive straight down in a pool but the huge diving well in the neighborhood pool washed that lesson our of my head. Unfortunately that lesson is now literally stitched into my head. 
I’m looking foward to getting the stiches out of my head this week as I am not allowed to get my head wet and a week without washing my hair has been gross to say the least.
July 9th, 2006