I've been having a lot of fun helping people with their Java questions on p2p.wrox.com. It's a great forum both for giving and receiving general technology questions. I wish I could answer everyone's questions, but for now I can only answer most Java/MySQL/PHP questions :). Here are some of my recent posts:

Special Character issue in JSP
login script: user can't hit return for login
Java Media Framework(I am new to java)
Special Character issue in JSP
Sorting in Javascript.

My ZoomInfo site is Jon Emerson.

Hi everyone... I just thought I'd let you know that I'm doing all my blogging / journaling at jonemerson.net now. So if you want to know more about me, go there!

In the last month and a half, Juno Online (who run NetZero) fraudulently charged me $39.90 for services I never ordered. That's fine: fraud happens. But I'm annoyed that when I called them, they sent me through three lines of support before telling me that they couldn't refund me my money. Apparently, their computer systems can't technically issue refunds themselves! So I had to call my credit card company and wait on hold even more to dispute the transaction and get everything straightened out.

I want Juno to have a better system for dealing with fraudulent charges. I shouldn't have to wait 30 minutes to clear up an issue that's not my fault. And now that I know what awful customer service they have, why would I ever want to be their customer??

I just found out that a Google search for my name (Jon Emerson) shows a page about me as the first link! (Note that the Jon Emerson Productions site has nothing to do with me, though we both live in the bay area.)