Speaking of back to school…
Todays headline in the Boston Herald “The Incredible Shrinking Lunch”. Apparently today’s bumper crop of portly students isn’t getting enough to eat anymore. Boo-hoo. Real front page news.
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24 Intuit support hours
To make a long story short, I’m on hold with Intuit (turbotax) support. I would have used their instant message support, but apparently their idea of 24 hours a day, monday – sunday is different than...
View ArticleJet Blue’s woes, and the rights of travelers.
I was dismayed to hear about Jetblue’s recent mistakes leading to people spending 11 hours trapped in unmoving planes. It seems even with TV’s and leather seats, they don’t treat their passengers as...
View ArticleLong hold times at Authorize.net
Over the past two days, I’ve had the misfortune of gathering a good sample of Authorize.net’s support hold time. (fyi, they are an internet credit card processing gateway) Four calls – each with hold...
View ArticleMy personal info on lost IBM tapes
I received a letter today marked “Urgent message from IBM. Please open immediately”. What’s this I thought? It turns out my information relating to my IBM employment was on the tapes lost back in...
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Olympic Torch Relay
This morning I was reading about protests during the Olympic torch relay in Paris forcing the torch’s security team to extinguish the flame. That got me to thinking: does anything say “committed to...
View ArticleBarack Obama is 46 and not a Muslim
This week and recieved this troubling (forwarded) email that was for profiling on the basis of age and ethnic backround. It listed a whole bunch of terrorist attacks visited upon Americans, ending each...
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A concoction most foul
The building I work in threw a building BBQ last week. There were hot dogs that were actually pretty tasty, there were tough hamburgers that made me think of beef recalls, and there was Tropicana...
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NYTimes application for the iPhone
I think the New York Times application for the iPhone is pretty good. My chief complaint (other than the random crashing) is that the head shots of the authors are too damn big.
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iPhone can’t keep time
Every now and then my iPhone has this issue where it can’t tell time properly. I wake it up, and it shows me a time several hours ago, then as if waking from a drunken stupor, slowly tries to catch up...
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