Comcast responds with more of the same bad service
Less than a day after I posted my letter to my blog, and before the printed letter even reached Comcast, I received an emailed response:
Category Archives: Computers
Comcast drops the ball yet again
April 13, 2009 Mitch Bowling General Manager and Senior Vice President, Online Services Comcast One Comcast Center 1701 JFK Boulevard Philadelphia, PA 19103-2838 Dear Mr. Bowling, Today, my wife received at her Comcast email address, elided@comcast.net, your email message with the Subject line “Apology for Service Disruption”. My wife’s email address is a secondary address… Read More »
Is that period English or Hebrew?
I recently found myself writing a document containing mostly English and a little bit of Hebrew on Linux in OpenOffice.org Writer (using a prerelease of the upcoming Fedora 11). I was pleased to see that since the last time I looked, right-to-left (RTL) text entry has improved by leaps and bounds in both Linux and OpenOffice.org. I… Read More »
PayFlex: an FSA administrator actually does something right
UPDATE (June 30, 2013): I no longer believe this review from 2009 to be an accurate representation of the quality of service provided by PayFlex. Please see my more recent posting for an explanation. Feel free to post comments there; comments on the review here have been disabled.
Comcast rolls out DOCSIS 3.0 in Boston, upgrades customers for free
We just received an email message from Comcast which read in part as follows: Comcast Doubled Your Speed for Free! Great news! As a Performance customer, we just doubled your speed for free! And with PowerBoost®, you now have downloads up to 15 Mbps! The fastest fast from the new Comcast High-Speed Internet is now… Read More »
height of comics.com single-panels now limited automatically
For users of my comics aggregator… When comics.com switched to their redesigned Web site, they started exporting much larger versions of their single-panel comics. This is annoying, so I’ve fixed the aggregator to notice comics from comics.com taller than 400 pixels and restrict their display height to 400 pixels.
So *that’s* why no one visits Sharon!
The astute nerd will note that when the traffic delay time shown above is converted into seconds, it comes out to 4,294,967,220, and when you cast the 32-bit signed integer value -1 to a 32-bit unsigned integer, it comes out to 4,294,967,295. The conclusion is left as an exercise to the reader.
IE8 Home Page: I Don’t Think It Means What You Think It Means
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 »
Operation Smile: Unrepentant, Egregious Spammers
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 »
comics.com jumps the shark
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 »