SliceHost... !

Just make a quick pause to recognize the good work of this guys. I hired their services from Chile, using my chilean credit card. After about 20 minutes of getting my account, The billing system flagged my account, and they suspended it and told me that i would need to supply some info, including phone number.

I kindly answered all the questions and provided all the information required, plus a little more to make them sure that they know that it was me on the other side, and told him that it was kind of rude to suspend the account, just to test the support reaction. The answer that I got nicely surprised me. Here is a small quote:

"I do apologise for any inconvenience or offence our system caused. We work very hard to protect the security of customers - new and old - and hope that you appreciate the level of care we put into keeping you safe."

That's exactly the kind of service that I would look forward in a service provider. Solving the problem as soon as possible, and turning over the bad situation into an opportunity of taking their good qualities into the table.

The company is www.slicehost.com. I'm not sponsored, and not even using the slice yet, but it really seems that will be a good experience working with them. Otherwise, you will know about them :)

Eduardo Avaria
www.thesocialpartner.com
www.twitter.com/edavaria

Things Happen for Something

This phrase has long been used in many situations to be considered a cliché, but this time, I'm using another point of view.

Usually, people use it when bad things happen trying to say that better things will happen in the near future, or in they could replace it for "God knows why he do things". But this is not the case.

In the last few months, a lot of good things have happened to me in the professional area that of course is product of hard work, good mentors and decent management of the opportunities. But looking back and following the threads that leads to all this good things, there's a lot of bad things like financial disasters, unfair situations at the University, depression and other disorders, failure at several proyects, either commercial or personal, etc... But none of the good things could ever be possible without that bad situations.

On the past, probably i would thought in coincidence, but it's too much coincidence. Providence is also out of the equation, since God is not an option for me. But what is really different then and now is two things. The first one, is a lesson learned from Tribes: We need you to lead us. Faith is the most important human characteristic. Not blind faith but conscious, righteous and fiery faith. No matter if you need a god or a church between you and your faith, but that needs to be there, supporting what you believe on, your acts and giving you strength while facing unbearable challenges... with faith, there's no such thing.

The second, is that every situation, no matter how good or bad it is, is an opportunity. Apes didn't turn into humans eating bananas in their trees, and the ones that didn't see the oportuniy in his misery, died. No matter how bad a situation is, it can always mean a good thing, and accepting as God's will is the wrong way. Fighting against it and taking as much as you can from it always, and i mean ALWAYS give profits.

With this two points on the table, "Things happen for something" completely loose his sense, since once things happen is when you make them happen for something, and can completely change your life and your destiny. Actually, sounds weird, but getting profit from bad things, after failing on things that were supposed to be right, makes me want bad things to happen... of course not literally, but something like "If it's gonna happen, let it happen soon".

So as punchline, i would say... When bad things happen, you, and only you have the power to take advantage of them, use that power!

Regards and probably you will keep hearing from me in the near future.

Eduardo Avaria
www.thesocialpartner.com
www.twitter.com/edavaria