It really bothers me when I complain about something but I usually only complain (especially about companies) that should know better. This isn't a complaint being made to a small company who may not be able to afford talent - this is about a multi million dollar profitable company you all already know about.

So I have invested in a lot of Amazon / Blink related devices. I have more than 5 echo devices (from echo dots to echo shows) not to mention amazon tables, 5 fire sticks AND the blink mini cameras (a whopping 12 of them) AND I pay the yearly subscription to record the camera footage.

ISSUE 1: Even with the 100 USD subscription - I can't watch a camera on my fire stick for more than a few minutes at a time (I think its like literally 1 minute and then it closes off)

ISSUE 2: Even with the 100 USD subscription - I can't watch more than one camera at the same time on my firestick

ISSUE 3: THIS COMPANY LACKS VISION AND INTELLIGENCE. The firestick has a voice remote. When I'm viewing a camera I cannot use the voice remote to speak (the cameras has speakers and you can speak to whomever you're watching via the app) BUT NOT THE FIRESTICK. It's like they don't even use their own devices to figure these ideas out.

It's really frustrating - enough for me to vent via my blog. I just want technology that works and makes my life better / easier / convenient / purposeful!

ISSUE 4: Support is just support, they have no power to fix this stuff and I guess their developers aren't as good as I thought they were.

Love is beautiful because true love is able to understand even when you're not on the same page.

Yup, meditate on this and I hope you realise and understand what I mean.

So recently I discovered the power of Elementor. The one problem was, it gets expensive quickly especially if you need Elementor for multiple websites. I was once again sad because I had just found a reason to build websites again. I did some googling to find out whether there was an alternative. I found Oxygen Builder which seems similar to Element - a bit, it's not an exact replacement. Either way, I was able to get an unlimited license which I paid a fairly high price for but still overall much less than Elementor. I miss a few drag and drop features with Oxygen Builder but it's actually more powerful when it comes to customizations via CSS and Javascript. This site is using it and this is what I've come up with so far. Stay tuned!

I'm super happy to report that my new website is up and running! When I first began blogged, I used WordPress but through the years I switched to a few content management systems including Joomla, Drupal and even Laravel. I thought Laravel would allow me to build out an awesome website but I just don't have the time to spend coding each website feature and reinventing the wheel. This basically means I needed something that was already built - so I jumped back into the WordPress ecosystem. So far so good!

I thought that my first new post should be about something good. 2 years ago, my son Reece was born and so I'm literally a father! I must say that I've realised how much God loves each one as I've experienced loving my son Reece. I want to just let you guys know that God loves you. Have a wonderful day.