Upon our arrival in Cleveland last Friday afternoon after a three-day drive from Boston, we hastily emptied the car before the start of the Sabbath. Imagine my dismay to discover that the duffel bag containing all of my clothes was missing! I had put my clothes for the trip in my backpack, so that I… Read More: Too clever by half, then not clever enough »
Several years ago, a Target store opened near us in Watertown, Massachusetts. Having grown up in Minneapolis, I had fond memories of Target and hoped that this meant we would finally have a tolerable department store near us. To say that I’ve been disappointed by our local Target would be a monumental understatement.
The National Jewish Democratic Council just released an awesome fact sheet on some of McCain’s biggest flip-flops. Read or link to it here: http://njdc.typepad.com/njdcs_blog/2008/07/senator-mccain.html Digg it here: http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/McCain_flip_flop_fact_sheet This is powerful stuff!
I recently checked in for a flight on Continental Airlines through my PDA. It’s very cool that Continental has a way for people to do this. At the end of the check-in process, I was asked whether I wanted to pick up my boarding pass at a kiosk, have it emailed to me for printing,… Read More: Continental: $billion, multi-national corporation, doesn’t get that not everybody uses… »
Some time ago, author Galen Gruman, an Executive Editor at InfoWorld, started a petition demanding that Microsoft continue to sell Windows XP past the time when they had originally intended to stop, on the grounds that many individuals and businesses saw no need to switch to Windows Vista and shouldn’t be forced to do so.… Read More: Galen Gruman collects email addresses for InfoWorld and IDG to… »
I heartily recommend compactappliance.com for all your compact appliance needs — wine refrigerators, beverage coolers, ice makers, compact refrigerators, portable air conditioners, dehumidifiers, window air conditioners, combo washer dryers, 12 volt travel coolers, and many others. Let me tell you why.
As a followup to my previous blog entry about stupid, deceptive advertising from Verizon, I got this envelope in the mail from Verizon the other day: Apparently the brilliant marketing folks at Verizon figured, “Well, gee, orange didn’t work, so let’s try blue!” What a bunch of idiots.
The $600 check and the four FedEx return shipping labels from HP arrived. the three C5280 printers and all of the associated photo paper and ink cartridges have been boxed up, labels have been applied, and FedEx has been called for pick-up. God willing, the check will be deposited later today. I just sent a… Read More: The end of the C5280 saga, the beginning of the… »
Turns out my LJ.com syndication feed (http://syndicated.livejournal.com/jik_blog/) has been broken since I installed bookmarkify in March. LJ decided that my entries were too big with all the bookmarkify links in them. So I’ve told bookmarkify to only include the Digg link and none of the others. It would have been nice if somebody at LJ… Read More: Hey, LJ users! A little help? »
Note that in my last blog entry about my battle with HP over the C5280, the email from HP said that they were going to send me three FedEx labels. I wrote back immediately upon receipt of that letter and told them that if they wanted me to return the ink cartridges and photo paper,… Read More: C5280: Two few labels, no check »