Mitch asked me what the most comments I’ve ever received on a blog entry was. I looked, and it’s currently 12 about the donotcall.gov program. I’m not sure why, but several of the folks visiting think I am the do not call list administrator. I’ve gone through different stages of thought about this… initially one […]
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Debbie’s dust story reminded me of my experience in learning another language, where my pile of how-to-speak books is much like her weight bench — thickly covered with dust and good intentions. But we’re going to force the issue. Next year I’m taking the family on vacation abroad
Picking up a second language (where should we vacation)? Read More »
Consumer Reports has an article on how bad software and product support is getting. In the last two weeks, I’ve had to contact various organizations’ support organizations for a variety of reasons, some tech and some not.
I finally have enough room in my garage to fit a car inside. While cleaning it out over the last few weekends, I’ve found a lot of strange stuff. Some of this I’ve thrown away, but the rest has nostalgic value… like my collection of 1980s cassettes. I realized that I don’t have a cassette
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Asteroid Impact Alert Level* Last week the Near Earth Objects Information Centre issued a retraction regarding the earlier news report that 2003 QQ47 had a strong likelihood of impacting in 14 years. Your challenge, gentle reader, generate similar wise-apple comments to a real or fictitous story. (Please keep it clean!)
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Fry’s opened up its first store in Washington state. Fry’s is a strange place — sort of a department store for geeks with a large selection of stuff, prices slightly higher than mail-order, theme-based decor, and notoriously oppressive customer service. If you don’t mind the casino feel — and I mean that as in pit
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Since my original, little piece on donotcall.gov, quite a few people have written about opting out. You may send $20 and the form below to:
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Last year at this time, my wife found carpenter ants in the corner of the garage. We got a quote from an exterminator, but the only option they’d consider required a one year contract with monthly “treatments.” Net outlay would be $300 for the initial treatment plus another $450 for one year of followups.
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