I really wanted to write this from my flawless Ubuntu Linux install on my old laptop, but it’s still apt-get’ting an upgrade at the moment.
Here it comes from my new work computer used for non-work purposes.
Washington Mutual? Bad Customer Service?
Yep.
Come on guys, I thought you were a bank. Sure, I’m not Donald Trump, or Robert [...]
The good follow up award goes to Credo Mobile. After a bit of a FAIL, they get a total WIN in terms of internet meme language.
They called me, I didn’t have to call them. Total points.
They told me how much I owed them. Total points.
The only minor glitch that I worked through on the phone [...]
Not my wordinary at least, but Wikitionary. After setting up the datastructures for wordinary and populating a few instances by hand, I started searching for free sources for words. I checked out Aspell, and googled around but didn’t find anything that would really be useful to me, although I did get redirected to Wiktionary. I [...]
[Edit: Please note that as of 5:51pm my phone service was restored by an act of excellent customer service. Credo will be contacting me next week with a corrected billing statement, and my cell phone service will go back to normal. After having spent about 10 years of my life with a recurring participation in [...]
Recently my favorite blog to read has been Russ Beattie’s blog, and not for any particular reason other than I can relate to him. I stumbled onto his blog sometime ago, not sure when or how. He is the impetus for the semi-minimalist site redesign-made possible by finding someone else who did a wordpress design, [...]
Trillian, the multi-client Instant Messaging program I use, had a disagreement with the Jabber protocol this morning and attacked my computer with ghost message notifications. And for just a moment, I thought all those make believe groupies were real!
This was going to be (yet another) rant on my blog. I deleted the rant part.
Here’s all I have to say about same-sex marriage:
Anyone out there who is gay who needs an officiant let me know. I’ll get myself ordained (Universal Life Church) and marry you. If you want a domestic partnership, I’ll go become [...]
I’m unable to get to sleep tonight. Maybe it’s my screwed up sleep schedule after a week in China–I left Shanghai at 1pm, yesterday, and arrived in San Francisco at 12:50pm, yesterday. Maybe it’s been too much Neal Stephenson followed by Alan Weisman’s The World Without Us. It could also be that I avoided my [...]
I hope it’s just me, as articles are occasionally overlaying one on top of the other in my browser. I haven’t figured out why, but if you notice it, too, please let me know.
Lawrence Lessig’s lecture on corruption has been sitting in my bookmarks for about 2 months. I never set aside the 1 hour and 5 minutes of time to watch it. When cleaning up my bookmarks on Friday, I decided to watch it in chunks and not put it off any longer. About 10 minutes in, [...]