2:44pm: I faxed my Chapter 93a demand letter to HP. 3:48pm: My case manager left voicemail asking me to fax him copies of my receipts. 4:59pm: I faxed the receipts. 5:30pm: My case manager called. He agreed to refund my money. However…
__ ___ Street ____, __ _____-____ E-mail: jik@alum.mit.edu Fax: ___-___-____ Phone: ___-___-____ April 14, 2008 Hewlett-Packard Fax: ___-___-____ Ref: HP case manager ID # __________ (previously __________) To whom it may concern: This is a demand letter as required by Chapter 93a of the General Laws of Massachusetts.
One of my loyal readers asked what exactly I was illustrating with the scans I posted from a print generated by my C5280. Here’s the scan I posted yesterday, next to a scan of a print I made at CVS: C5280 print CVS print
A brief recap, for people who don’t want to read all of my blog postings about this problem: My HP C5280 printer doesn’t print photos properly. HP has sent me two replacement printers and four or five replacement ink cartridges, none of which have solved the problem. I have wasted around seven hours of my… Read More »
In August 2007, I bought an HP PhotoSmart C5280 that wouldn’t work with my Mac, because HP shipped buggy software and didn’t bother to actually tell anyone, and I had to jump through ridiculous hoops to find and install the fixed software. When I started trying to print photos, which was the primary use for… Read More »
What kind of idiot designs a phone so that when it updates your clock for daylight saving time at two in the morning, it lets out a loud chime to let you know about it?! Did I really need to be woken up at two in the morning because my phone was so proud of… Read More »
I’ve just asked to be unsubscribed from the “jewish-boston” mailing list. I just can’t take it anymore.
I’ve been invited to be a contributor to Jewneric. I’ll be “simulblogging” my Judaism-related articles on my blog here as well as on Jewneric. If one of the articles here piques your interest, you may wish to follow the comments about it on Jewneric as well as here. I’ll post cross-links at the ends of… Read More »
Every once in a while, I head on over to eBay to dispose of something I no longer need that somebody else might want. This isn’t a business or even a hobby for me; it’s just a useful tool for getting rid of things that I’d rather not just throw away. When I’ve done this… Read More »
The GNU libc library comes with a bunch of files which define all of the POSIX locales supported by the library. These files take up hundreds of megabytes, and the vast majority of them are completely unneeded by those of us who only speak a few languages and never attempt to read or enter text… Read More »