Dear Mayor Menino, A small, vocal group of parents with children at the Mission Hill School have been waging a campaign to derail the BPS administration’s plan to relocate the school to Jamaica Plain. I am writing in opposition to their campaign and in support of the relocation plan as proposed by Dr. Johnson.
My Windows 7 laptop’s hard drive recently died, and after replacing it (with an SSD! yeah!), reinstalling all of my software including iTunes, and restoring my iTunes library, iTunes refused to play any music through my Logitech USB headset. The speakers plugged into my audio port worked just fine, but when I tried to play… Read More: iTunes won’t play through USB headset (songs stay at 0:00)?… »
The solar photovoltaic (PV) electrical generation system on our house, i.e., our solar panels, “went live” on December 29, 2011. We are now happily generating solar electricity. This is great for the environment now, and in a few years when the system breaks even, it’ll be great for our finances as well. Our electric bill… Read More: Massachusetts Solar Renewal Energy Credit (SREC) self-serve selling how-to »
I ordered something from Gadgets and Gizmos early on the morning of March 27. By late the next night, two full business days later, I’d received no shipping notification. I sent them the following email. I’ll let it and the subsequent exchange I had with them speak for itself: To: support@shopgadgetsandgizmos.com My order was placed… Read More: Gadgets and Gizmos: Rude Internet retailer of the day »
I was handed this flyer today in front of Boston City Hall: It’s a spoof mocking the Mayor’s demand for teachers to work a longer school day. Hey, BPS teachers… The teachers at my children’s private school work longer hours than you, with worse benefits than you, for less money than you. They do a… Read More: Boston Teachers Union: STFU and do your jobs »
Apparently, enough people have linked to my complaint about the abuse my family received at the hands of US Airways that it is now the first match that comes up when someone googles for “CEO of USAir”. Many people are doing that because they want to complaint to US Airways themselves but don’t know how… Read More: How to complain to US Airways »
I can’t speak to the quality of the custom tailoring work at Gregory’s Fine Tailoring, located at Boston’s downtown crossing. What I can do is report the facts of what Gregory did to me, and then you can decide for yourself whether to patronize his business. Executive summary: Work on my jacket, which I was… Read More: Gregory’s Fine Tailoring: buyer beware! »
My employer uses Oracle Financials to manage its books. The user experience of Oracle Financials is truly awful. We’re in the process of upgrading to a new version of the application, after using the old version for several years. One would think in the interim Oracle would have hired a decent UX designer and some… Read More: Bad UX example of the day »
The Hague, The Netherlands – February 10, 2012 – The International Criminal Court today announced a sweeping indictment of the Lord God Almighty for mass murder. An ICC spokesman explained the indictment. “We are emerging from a dark era in which humanity failed to recognize the full personhood of fertilized eggs. Now that we know… Read More: International Criminal Court Indicts God for Mass Murder »
My wife received a bill last week from Simon Medical Services for $90.22, part of the cost of a brace her doctor gave her for her broken foot. This confused me because our health insurance, Tufts HMO, usually provides 100% coverage after copayments. I looked up the claim on the Tufts web site and found… Read More: Simon Medical Services over-bills customers »