A long time ago, I used to buy cheap things. I bought discount computer parts, used free anything that was free, rented movies and copied them.

Slowly but surely, I learned the veritable lesson that you get what you pay for.

Now I only buy trusted name hardware and software. Yet I install an HP scanner and Microsoft Windows XP crashes. My problems with my own computers are so well documented as to be nearly legendary among my friends, despite the fact I purchase quality parts.

Right now, I want to know why when I pay four different services (Everyone's Internet, Hostik, and Bigfoot, Cingular) for email, the only service that is presently working right is my free Yahoo account. I want to know why, when I pay Bigfoot $36 a year for their distribution services, once every couple months it goes down for a week without letting me know that it's not working right. I want to know why EV1 periodically rejects Bigfoot without informing me. I want to know why Hostik has decided, without asking me, that Bigfoot is a spammer and thus all of my email that goes through it (95%) is thus rejected. I want to know why my cell phone refuses to validate my Bigfoot email so the only way I was able to get email on my phone was by creating a mock Hostik account set to forward to it.

I want to know why I, who holds a Bachelor's in Information Systems of Technology and has four years of industry experience, can't apply for a job that seriously interests me because I do not have an appropriate email address.

UPDATE: Okay, so now I want to know why, within 5 minutes of posting this, everything begins working perfectly again.

I did not write this in haste. My email has been flicking back to people for four or five days now. Ask Kevin or Heidi.