PagePlus Refill: KittyWireless vs PinCheap

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I read a lot great information about PagePlus from kittywireless. The web site is not professional looking but it does have the most information about PagePlus prepaid program available in the internet. To show my appreciation, I chose to buy my next refill from kittywireless to at least give a try.

To be honest, the process is rediculously and unnecessarily complicated.

To me, I just wanted to get my PagePlus pin, pay by credit card and get the pin immediately and add it to my PagePlus account.

However, when in kittywireless, I had to do the following:

  • Verify my cell phone number
  • fill out a form with all my contact information along with my credit card info
  • you have to create a user account there
  • I have to provide a landline number so they can verify my address? (never have I done that with other e-commerce web site)
  • e-sign a form to do business with kittywireless (never have I done that with other e-commerce web site)
  • if you are a new customer, they cannot email you the pin
  • after i went through all this, the next day, I got the email saying that my transaction was cancelled because they could not verify my account/address. By the way, I used this credit card for years with any problem with other web sites
  • I wasted all my time creating this account and now I got nothing. That means, I WASTED all my time
Heck, I just wanted to pay my money, get my pin and add it to my account so I can make calls. Kittywireless does not understand e-commerce. When users wants to buy things online, they wanted it as soon as possible.
So here we had pincheap. It allows to do just that, no PagePlus phone number verification, no landline phone requirements(who has landline numbers those days anyway, are you NUTS?), no e-sign with a third-party web site, no…. just pay your bills, pin was shown in web site almost instantly. I then went to pagepluscircular.com and applied my pin and voila, I have my PagePlus account refilled.
Just one small issue with pincheap, they list credit cards as one of the payment methods, howver, the web site could only work with paypal, from my experience with CHrome web browser. By the way, you have to disable pop-up blocking, otherwise payment would not work. (After you log into paypal, you still have the option to pay with a credit card though)
Lastly but most importantly, if you buy PagePlus $80 365-day 2000 minutes pin, kittywireless sells at $80 face value, while pincheap offers it at a discounted $74, which is really NICE!

    Chili’s California turkey sandwich

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    This is chili’s $8 combo sandwich in their Lunch menu.

    I took the soup as the side. It is rich creamy , salty, and of course, a bit spicy.

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    The sandwich is loaded with turkey, bacon, avocado and lots of veggies.

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    By the way. Their door knobs are  cute:

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    craftsman 7.0 lawn mower air filter

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    My lawn mower cannot start, but if I take the air filter off, it can start perfectly. Now my air filter is saturated with gas or oil?

    So now I am trying to find the craftsman 7.0 lawn mower air filter…

    Not sure if this is the right one:

    http://www.sears.com/craftsman-air-filter-for-briggs-stratton-engines/p-07133064000P?prdNo=9&blockNo=9&blockType=G9&PDP_REDIRECT=false&s_tnt=39869:4:0#desc

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    Chillis chicken bacon ranch quesadilla

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    $7 combo lunch:

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    chicken quesadilla with house salad. Even it is ranch salad dressing, it is still spicy. No wonder it is chili’s.

    There are open or relative private seating. Looks like I prefer the latter.

    Even the decorating lamps look spicy as well. 🙂

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    It’s cakes with chicken and cheese inside, served warm.

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    I like the table decoration as well:

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    面包图

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    我不知道这里有多少是老师的手笔，不过在临近晚餐时间看到yy的这幅面包图，委实让我顿生饥饿之感，足见yy画艺大进，此记。

    Dump that damn alu

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    I bought lu lucent tech stocks back about 10 years ago, 200 at $4.05. Then suddenly in 2006, alcatar bought lu, so my 200 stocks becomes 39 shares of alu at about 14 when lu dropped to 2.05.

    Someday I will dump this sucker. Now it became a penny stock, it is just 39 shares so I don,t bother to sell it, just assume I lost all the 800 bucks, back in 10 years ago.

    Lessons learned: buy and hold will not bring you anywhere. You need to have a plan or strategy, an exit strategy to know when to get out of the game.

    日子

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    日子在俗务中匆匆飞逝，没有停留的片刻。这一生，本没有什么意义，有的只是我们对每个细节的关注，让我们无法自拔。也许这样更好，因为跳出人生的细节往远处看，人生不免是一种虚无。就像信上帝一样，人生的意义是你赋予的，你觉得它有意义，它便有意义；如果觉得没有，它便是没有。

    从最先进的哈勃望远镜遥望太空，让我们对我们的地球以及我们自己，不免叹息。我们简直太渺小了，竟不如宇宙中的一粒微尘。我们是什么呢，帝王将相又是什么呢，是尘，是土，是一阵微风。

    可微小如人类的动物却是这个宇宙中最不自知最为狂妄的。这是我们这个世界历经千年依然混乱依然动荡不安的根本原因。

    Weird Jenkins Error: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: hudson/model/ComputerSet

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    I finally got passed that Jenkins NoClassDefFound error when managing nodes… Now no such errors and the system was back. The slave machines are back to work and projects are building now!

    The Jenkins error message (the log jenkins.log is under /var/log/jenkins/ in a standard standalone Linux installation) does not make sense and was misleading:

    May 29, 2012 3:03:32 PM hudson.triggers.SafeTimerTask run

    SEVERE: Timer task hudson.model.LoadStatistics$LoadStatisticsUpdater@12c8855 failed

    java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: hudson/model/ComputerSet

    at hudson.model.LoadStatistics$LoadStatisticsUpdater.doRun(LoadStatistics.java:215)

    at hudson.triggers.SafeTimerTask.run(SafeTimerTask.java:54)

    at java.util.TimerThread.mainLoop(Timer.java:512)

    The class was there. We just need to remove nodeMonitor.xml when migrating Jenkins instance.

    nodeMonitors.xml: when migrating to another instance of Jenkins, remove the old nodeMonitors.xml to solve that NoClassDefFound erroe/issue as follows:

    sudo  mv /var/lib/jenkins/nodeMonitors.xml /var/lib/jenkins/nodeMonitors.xml.old

    nodeMonitors.xml will be automatically generated.

    During the time I tried to resolve the issue, I also tweaked the JDK setting in Jenkins config. I added a jdk named jdk1.6-/usr/java/default/bin/java with JAVA_HOME: /usr/java/default

    Be sure to take this out in Jenkins config if you are using slaves; it depends on slave machines env varianle JAVA_HOME. Adding this only confuses the salve machine as this overrides its local JAVA_HOME setting. If your master machine is Linux and your slave machine is Windows(like for building .net applications we we also are doing, in addition to Java jobs), this will definitely cause an error: incorrect JDK home.