I thought it was going to help me be more productive if I move out of the office and/or my bedroom and spend quality time in some cozy coffee shop with my laptop and my Ipod. And I thought I’d get to have faster downloads too, I mean, last time I checked, wifi is relatively faster in coffee shops.

Hence I didn’t mind paying 100 bucks for 60 minutes of internet connection, because I thought they’d at least be worth it. WRONG.

And so I end up with an erratic internet connection inside an abnormally cold coffee shop (I’m brrrr-freeezing!), with my downloads running at 1.2KB/s to 15KB/s, no thanks to Globequest (I mean, yes, Globe Visibility still sucks sometimes, but I haven’t been victimized by another Globe product until now). Whut a slow. :(

On top of all these, I totally lost the mood to have a productive night because the Christmas carols playing in the background is louder than the music that’s plugged into my ears (not that I hate Christmas carols, but I’m not exactly in the mood to hear Rudolf and Jingle Bells right now).

So yeah, aside from for the complementary drink they gave me for I duno, being their only customer tonight?; and the additional Starbucks Planner stickers, my night so far is not going the way I hoped.

And no, don’t get me wrong. Starbucks is one of my favorite places! It just kinda sucks that you have to pay for internet connection that’s crappy anyway when other coffee shops (Bo’s, San Francisco Cafe, etc) provide it as a free service.

Blpht. I don’t intend to make this blog a venue of my complaints. It’s just that.. I need more space for this than my plurk page can offer. Heh. I stop now.

Also, I’m outa here in an hour.

Originally titled as “What Mcdo Delivery Failed To Do”

I’m sure I’m not the only one who just suddenly craved for McMuffin and hash browns, and automatically typed in 8mcdo.com on her browser only to be welcomed by a big blob of green. No redirects. Not even a link pointing you to the right direction. Just an abandoned site that’s a big blob of green.

So I googled a couple of keywords, “mcdo delivery pasig”, “mcdo delivery manila”, “new 8mcdo website”, I tell you, I’ve tried all the important keywords and still — the new online mcdo delivery website did not show up anywhere. Tsk tsk. Pissed, I *almost* decided to just deprive myself of my morning craving, until ever reliable  Mommy Maia told me to try mcdelivery.com, or mcdodelivery.com, and after a couple of tries, we finally landed on the right URL: MCDELIVERY.COM.PH. (Ugh, imagine all the lost sales, people! Stoopid.)

What Mcdo should’ve done is pretty simple.

1. 301 redirect their old site to the new one to save not only the cached pages and link juice but also the significant amount of direct traffic; OR
2. if they’re really really too busy taking orders to tinker with their .htaccess, at least place a link in the old green blob (aka, the former 8mcdo.com site) pointing to the new one; OR
3. Hire/outsource an SEO Specialist to make their new website rank for important keywords. Ehem.

Anyway, if ever you landed on this site Googling for mcdo delivery from your cubicle in some office in Metro Manila, here’s a little help to find the new online Mcdonalds delivery. The URL is MCDELIVERY.COM.PH.

I wait for my mcmuffin nao.