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5 ways to get on the Delicious homepage

Via a highly scientific process, I’ve determined that the list below contains 5 surefire ways to get a post listed on the homepage of Delicious. Create a post with a title such as: 5 ways to do X Create a post with a title such as: 10 ways to do X (where X is the [...]

Ringtones

This is so true (via: xkcd) It cracks me up with some of the ring tones I hear, and whenever someone tries to explain why they’re using “baby got back” as their ringtone (or whatever their selection is), they always say “well, I want to know it’s my phone ringing.”  I use a regular ring [...]

All I want is …

… to find a company that believes in offering good customer service.  I’m growing so tired of the lackluster customer service.  I am a user of many services, and it’s getting to the point where I think it’s time to cut all or most of them off.  It’s become absurd.  I don’t expect them to [...]

Credit received from Comcast

Well, I haven’t actually received another paper bill yet to have it confirmed, but I spoke with the supervisor at Comcast again and she said it had been applied to my account.  So, that’s good to hear, and I’m pretty sure I can trust that it’s been applied based on our conversation.  I feel sort [...]

Apparently it was too late …

As you may have seen … I’ve been in an ongoing battle of sorts with Comcast lately.  Today I received a bill in the mail for ~$460.  I called to ask a question about my bill and navigated through the automated system, choosing options to get to billing.  I got someone on the phone and [...]

Too late or still in time …

So, you may remember my comments regarding Comcast, and my … dis-taste for their customer service.  A day or so ago, I received this comment from a representative of Comcast.  I was fairly impressed that my little blog drew their attention. I decided to go ahead and respond to the email address that was provided [...]

Darn you Google!

Yet another feature not available to their paying customers. /sigh Update 6/13/08: They’ve now enabled this feature for my account.  Yay.

DSL Installation scheduled

And I’m looking into Direct TV / Dish Network.  Good-bye Comcast.  I can hardly wait.  At this point I don’t even care if it’s not a cost savings.  As long as it’s comparable, then any of my money that does not go to Comcast is a good thing.

I'm done with this moving thing …

Well, I’m done moving now pretty much. I still need to unpack some things, but I’m totally out of the old place and have turned in the keys for it, etc. It’s been both a good and a bad experience. I had originally hired Starving Students to do the move for me. I had scheduled [...]

U-Haul has awful customer service

Pretty mad about my whole experience with U-Haul at the moment. So I’ll simply show the letter I am sending to their contact forms and mailing off as soon as I can locate their corporate office address: In short, your customer service is horrible. On Sunday, March 25th, I placed an order/reservation on your website [...]

TLC: Untold Stories of the E.R.

This is a horrible show on The Learning Channel (TLC). It’s just … pathetic. Unfortunately the stories are STILL untold because whoever writes the scripts for the actors that are having fun playing Doctor/Nurse/EMT have evidently never stepped foot into a hospital in their lives. First, I’ve only met one or two Doctors ever that [...]

Stop the RIAA

Honestly, I don’t know if it will do a whole lot of good, but it’s worth a try. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is on a rampage, launching legal attacks against average Americans from coast to coast. After over 18,000 lawsuits and counting against P2P users, file sharing has continued to increase rapidly. [...]

Good Customer Service … Where did it go?

I saw this example of poor customer service by 37signals in a post recently over at Signal vs. Noise (37Signals blog). It just puzzles me how a company that has the (in general) poor customer service that they do can get such a cult following as they have. Honestly, the whole post reeks from their [...]

Boing Boing going for sensational headlines

Just read this article over at Boing Boing with the title: “Yahoo: if you use our ads, you have to block non-US visitors” The problem is, here is what was said by Yahoo: Item ’11.l’ stated that I will not “display all or part of the Ad Unit to any user located outside the US”. [...]

gMail + gTalk = gFailure

I’m getting so tired of seeing this error message (click to enlarge). This along with the “Oops … we were unable to perform the operation” or whatever their cute-sie error message is has become all too common for the past week to week and a half. It hasn’t come to it yet, but at the [...]