There’s a prominent photo on the Internet Explorer Home Page of a woman sitting in front of a laptop, smiling suggestively, looking over her shoulder, wearing a tank top with lots of skin showing. The words, in the big blue box overlaid on top of the photo, are: “faster, easier, and safer than ever”. Here… Read More »
As of November 3, 2008 the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicle is reducing the hours at most RMV branches and no longer mailing courtesy notices for a number of things, including driver’s license renewal notices. This means, quite simply, that the RMV is no longer going to remind you when your driver’s license is about… Read More »
Operation Smile started spamming me in 2004 after I donated to them on-line and gave them my email address so they could send me a receipt. They have sent me spam on November 5, 2004; December 22, 2004; January 11, 2005; December 7, 2005; December 20, 2005; March 8, 2006; May 11, 2006; May 28,… Read More »
Some day I would like to be the first ballot counted by the machine on Election Day, but alas, with five kids in the house, I doubt that day will come for a while :-). I was up before 5am — couldn’t sleep. Got the kids up at 6:15. Got breakfast and lunches made and… Read More »
Users of my comics aggregator might have noticed that it has been slow for the past few days and has had problems retrieving comics that are hosted at comics.com. It appears that comics.com rolled out a new version of their Web site over the weekend. After the rollout, it had problems, to say the least. … Read More »
So, I know that I said that when my phone contract expired I was going to switch to PalmOS or BlackBerry, because the software on the AT&T 8525 (a.k.a. HTC Hermes) was so sucky. But when push came to shove and I needed to buy a new phone (because I dropped the old one for… Read More »
My letter to the CEO of Virgin Mobile paid off, although it took them two months to respond. I got a voicemail message from a woman there apologizing for the way my problem was handled and letting me know that she was sending me a new phone and putting a $10 credit on my account to… Read More »
This moving pro-Obama video testimonial is by Janette Hillis-Jaffe, an Orthodox Jew living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Hillis-Jaffe was so offended by the anti-Obama smears being circulated in the Jewish community, that she felt compelled to respond by making this video. Some excerpts: I’m a Jewish Mother… so I worry! There was a time when I… Read More »
I sent the letter below to the CEO of Vigin Mobile over a month ago. Thus far, there has been no response. Can anyone suggest a decent, inexpensive prepaid cell phone service?