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I’m a little afraid of to say that MagicDraw is a very good Software because I haven’t used it a lot. However, my experience with it so far is very good. My group used it to draw the use case diagrams and sequence diagrams for our first deliverable. We find MagicDraw is fun to learn, but it’s not just a simple toy; it has the real power and the complexity, but it’s still pleased to work with.

Well, so far, no magic.

The magic happened in this morning. I received a phone call from No Magic Inc., who is company behind MagicDraw. The business representative firstly verified with me that there was no problems since I began to use the Software. Then he asked me some general questions, such as how I feel about MagicDraw, etc.. The whole conversion was very smooth and pleased. In the end, the business representative provided me a key to evaluate the enterprise edition for 30 days. I was very happy to accept that offer.

I just downloaded a free version without paying them, but they make me feel appreciated and make me believe that they care about me, care about their customers. This is what I like about the US companies. I had similar experience with GoDaddy, who is hosting this blog, but it’s another story.

One thing I am pretty sure right now is that I will continue using MagicDraw for the rest of the Software Engineering courses, and for my own side projects; but before this phone call, everything was not that clear. So, I think this is a magic, a business magic.

Today, I called Bell customer service right after I’d done my morning course. This time I was very gentle to them; I described what happened to me last time and what was right and what was wrong. The representative was also very gentle to me. In such a nice environment, we then could talk and listen.

It turned out that the girl, who spoke to me last time, incorrectly interpreted my bill and didn’t know the Bell’s hidden policies well. The representative I talked to today explained the bill to me item by item whose speech was very clear and understandable. She also didn’t know there was a 3-year contract at the first place, but she was willing to verify that for me. That was a good attitude, that was an attitude that every big company’s employee should have. Anyway, her behavior made me fell a lot better.

After she came back to the phone, she told me the 3-year contract DOES exist and I could get $35 per month if I signed up. That was exactly what I wanted and what I should get.

So, I trusted Bell, again. I canceled the account cancellation and I signed the contract.

I couldn’t be sure what is going to happen in the next billing cycle; but today, the experience with Bell was enjoyable.

I’d canceled the Bell Internet service today. Too bad. Before today, everybody told me they had some unhappy experience with Bell, but I didn’t believe them and I defended.

Now I know: I am wrong, I am totally wrong.

When I came back from Toronto in early September, I moved to this new place. At the every beginning, I didn’t want to bring my lovely black modem with me, but Bell tried its best to keep me. And yes it did. It told me if I stayed, I would get a very nice deal such was, after moving, the first month was free and $35 per month in the following 35 months. That is basically a 3-year contract.

During the moving, I made several phone calls to Bell’s customer service to make 100% sure that my “nice” deal didn’t fly away. Not all of the stuff knew the 3-year contract, but they all accepted it after my explanation. They all told me that everything was set and I would be very happy with them in the following 3 years.

I was very happy, and it was true before I looked at my credit card balance this afternoon.

On October 9th, Bell charged me $85.93! What the hell was that? I immediately called to Bell’s billing department to figure it out.

A girl answered the phone. She had a nice voice, but I heard the worst news from it: Nothing was on the file! $85.93 was the combination of the service charge of August (that was right) and September. But “where is my first month free?” I asked. The answer was “I haven’t seen any notes show you’ve been award the credit.”. OK, one month does not matter too much. How about the future, how about my 3 years deal? The answer was “there is no such thing exists.”. I explained everything to the girl, I yielded to her and I was pissed off. Finally, I canceled it.

Everything Bell promised to me was just a dream, Bell is a liar!

It’s Java’s start screen.
Oh! But it’s not cool…

The post “Sun tells Apple it must get Java on iPhones” says Sun feels that two million phones have already got Java so why not Apple iPhone….

I have an quick answer for the “why not”: Just because 2 million phones already have Java.

You should remember the old time, few years ago, when everybody wanted his MP3 player to have more and more fancy features. Also at that time, iPod came out. “Sorry, We don’t have FM in iPod. What?”, but you’ve seen what happened.

Differentiation, this is the key and Apple has the key in hands since its birth. So, what I’m going to say, but don’t want to repeat (DRY), is the title.