I suppose given my prior experiences with Hewlett-Packard’s customer service, I shouldn’t be surprised by yet another negative experience, but since this one has a new angle, I guess it’s worth posting… I asked HP in November 2008 to stop sending me junk mail. They assured me that my request would be processed and would… Read More »
Microsoft apparently feels the need to offer a Windows Mobile equivalent to MobileMe, but of course the Microsoft version will have the advantage of that legenday Microsoft reliability. I just got this email from Microsoft (click for a larger image): And here’s what I got when I tried to visit the My Phone Web site. … Read More »
In a recent issue of SANS NewsBites, the following item appeared as the headline story: TOP OF THE NEWS –One In Five Teenagers Claim to Have Used Hacking Tools (15th May 2009) A recent survey of 4,000 teenagers between the ages of 15 to 18 years of age states that 17% of those surveyed know… Read More »
As long-time readers of my blog know, I have been trying for a long time to help the environment and waste less of my own time by getting people to stop sending me junk mail. My primary method for doing that is to use email to contact the person or organization sending the junk mail… Read More »
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:
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 »
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 »
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.
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 »
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.