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Our hero recently created a blog post proclaiming in detail his top quarterbacks of all time. As you’ll see in this blog entry (read it before he edits it), he lists Tom (If you ain’t cheatin’, you ain’t tryin’) Brady behind Joe Montana, and also lists Joe Montana as his #1 quarterback of all time.

Now, I’m not sure why Matt made this blog entry, but he must seem to think his opinions are of great importance in “teh internets”.

But wait! Back in 2007, On the Big Sports 590am station in Omaha, Matt had a discussion about the greatest quarterbacks of all time with Travis Justice, and proclaimed:
“I know that I’m a Patriot fan, but I’m also RIGHT! Tom Brady is a better quarterback than Joe Montana.”

Which would seem to me that Tom Brady is actually Matt’s #1 quarterback. Which version is true? Does anybody care? Most people don’t, and most people that know Matt are aware of his shock topics to get listeners, depending on his whims of the day, and the current ratings. It seems to be a daily ritual whereby our hero will update his predictions on certain games during the week. He’ll make a Superbowl prediction at the beginning of the football season, and if it doesn’t seem like it’ll pan out, he’ll declare that the Saints will win, one day before the Superbowl, and proclaim himself a genius when it comes true!

Many people remember this “Brady is the greatest!” quote by Matt on the Matt and Travis show in Omaha. Everybody could almost somehow see through the airwaves the eyerolls that Travis must have been throwing around after Matt put his stamp of approval on it.

On a similar note, Matt seems to be upset that the MattPerrault.com quote system has been taken offline, which was his original DEMAND to me. MCGOUGH LAW! MCGOUGH LAW!

One, or perhaps both, of these reasons explains why Matt is pissed about the attempt to sell a domain named mattperrault.com for $99
1) He thinks that the name is worth more than $99
2) He can’t come up with $99.

I won’t even get into his pathetic attempts to bring up Jade McCarthy on his New Year’s blog entry, when previously he promised that he would shut down all discussions about her everywhere.

“Thanks for the 7 pages of pub!”, you’re welcome, Matt!

A part time AM radio co-host and full-time Twitterer begs listeners, and non-listeners, to email his bosses to complain about him. Crazy talk, but I’ll oblige. This is the same part-time AM radio co-host that has a job reporting on UNI and Drake basketball in Iowa, but seems to only care about Creighton basketball in Omaha. He must have been drinkin’ at the computer again because his grammar’s been sliding.

http://www.drakenation.com/Topic48530-8-1.aspx

Mc Bulldog:

This guy has no business in Des Moines as a sports talk show host … let’s all email his boss. Can you imagine what would happen if the shoe were on the other foot in Omaha? OMG … the Pope would get in the fray!!!

KXNO General Manager, Joel McCrea – joelmccrea@clearchannel.com
KXNO Program Director, Van Harden – vanharden@clearchannel.com

I think we should call some of the advertisers on KXNO, let them know how we feel about the situation. -

http://www.aamco.com/storelocator/index.asp?searchradius=15&zipcode=50311&citystate=&latitude=&longitude=&searchon=zipcode

http://www.uscellular.com/uscellular/common/common.jsp?path=/storefinder/index.html

Two Drake fans called me and one said he is thinking of hiring homeless guys to picket the station and the other guy said he is going to make T-shirts and give them out.

Perrault is busting open a hornet’s nest!!!

Matt:

Please email my boss again…that’s was great comedy.

Mecha Bulldog:

I didn’t realize KXNO’s ratings were so good that they could afford to pass off a local fan base. And laugh about it.

Matt:

No, we were laughed at the email cause the person said that it was unethical to have me on the radio cause I run a Creighton website….

UPDATE 1/19: Internet Brands has allowed me a partial refund, minus a $35 “processing fee”, whatever that is, I can’t find it documented anywhere on their site. Oh well, I’ll feel better knowing I’m not locked into vBulletin anymore. The company’s last reponse is at the bottom. Notice how they still refuse to acknowledge that their software is buggy or that customers are complaining about it.

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I too was suckered into taking Internet Brands approach of “taking a risk” (their words) of purchasing their new vBullletin 4.0 Publishing Suite. A purchase Internet Brands encouraged licensed owners to buy prior to seeing anything about vBulletin 4.0.

Well, I got a hold of it, tried to install it to a test server, and after a few database problems, which I don’t know were vB related, or had to do with my version of MySQL or the existing database, I got it almost running.

Almost, meaning the CMS didn’t work as described, which didn’t mean a lot to me, as I’m not too interested in the CMS at the moment.

But then I got a lot of problems with search results. I can’t even figure out why search is only working half assed. It seems vBulletin is indexing only random posts, even after rebuilding the search indexes. This is a known problem even on vBulletin.com forums. Just try searching for something on the vBulletin site itself.  The search speed seemed to be longer also, even getting one PHP timeout, but I need to do more tests on that to see if it’s really vBulletin choking on that.

The other problems I noticed, and confirmed by other people, was various issues the hybrid/threaded modes of the forum. Not many people use this feature, but I do, and some people insist on it, and it was a working feature in vBulletin 3.8. Sometimes the hybrid mode works, other times it doesn’t, and it doesn’t seem to matter what browser I’m using.

The other problems with vBulletin seem to be css related or template issues with other products or customizations, just from the limited experience I’ve had with it.  Note that I haven’t tried to add any modifications or templates to my test base, which is barely functional for a production environment. I’m glad I didn’t try to do a full converstion from 3.8 to 4.0

The Licensed Customer Feedback forum of vBulletin is full of complaints from licensed customers, wondering when the bugs will be worked out. Internet Brands has been trying to release a 4.01 version, but it’s been pushed back.

There isn’t any word about what 4.01 is supposed to include, but hopefully around 100 of the most severe bugs are fixed, resolved, or at least addressed.

All this heartache made we ask vBulletin for a refund for the Publishing Suite which I purchased. Some people had received refunds so I thought I’d give it a try. I was denied a refund by Internet Brands because they thought my reasons for a refund weren’t justified.

So I filed a complaint with the Better Business Bureau (you should too if you’re denied a refund). Here was my complaint:

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