Avoid Advance Auto Parts in Allston, MA
Advance Auto Parts jumps the shark, sells me bulbs that don’t work in my car after claiming they will, and won’t give me a refund when I try to return them. Corporate claims they’re looking into the matter.
Advance Auto Parts jumps the shark, sells me bulbs that don’t work in my car after claiming they will, and won’t give me a refund when I try to return them. Corporate claims they’re looking into the matter.
The comic strip “Alice” has been added to my Comics Aggregator. This is a Comics Kingdom strip, so there are steps you need to take to be able to view it through the aggregator. Please remember to tip your waiter if you enjoy the aggregator.
You can use this script to maintain your Namecheap DNS records in a file which you can keep in source control!
Chapter 2: The Hearing
Background information about how small-claims court works, plus a detailed account of my recent hearing.
Chapter 1: The Incident My wife and I moved into our home in 1997. When we moved in, the neighborhood grocery store half a block from our house had just closed and was in the process of being replaced by a CVS which is still there today. Our new neighbors told us of the following:… Read More »
Pull your Toodledo tasks and calendar entries into a text file every morning, where you can edit, add, delete, and reorder them, and when you’re done the changes go back into Toodledo.
Dear GEICO, I’m writing to explain how, over the course of your handling of a single claim, you went from being a company I would definitely recommend to others to one which I would under no circumstances recommend. If you actually care about winning and keeping customers, you might want to pay attention. One of… Read More »
Ever since I started being able to talk to my Android phone, I’ve wanted to be able to tell it to lock my screen. And ever since then, Google Assistant has stubbornly refused to do it. I can’t imagine why Google hasn’t implemented this feature; they obviously know people want it, since when you ask… Read More »
I ported TMDA from Python 2 to Python 3 so I could keep using it on my mail server. Turns out somebody already did that, but here’s my port anyway in case it’s useful to someone.
I want to give two examples, one medical and one technological, of the kind of buffoonery that the CDC is engaging in that continues to make them untrustworthy as a disease-control organization. Medical buffoonery Here are some things that COVID-19 research and recently collected epidemiological data are telling us at the moment: Here is what… Read More »