http://jeremyosborne.com blog by Jeremy Osborne Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:16:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://jeremyosborne.com/2008/07/20/bad-customer-service-washington-mutual/ 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 ... http://jeremyosborne.com/2008/07/19/good-customer-service-credo/ 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 ... http://jeremyosborne.com/2008/07/12/wordinary-est-mort-vive-wordinary/ [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 ... http://jeremyosborne.com/2008/07/11/message-to-credo-mobile/ My job status will be changing in a few days. Not exciting, not terrifying, merely an opportunity to fulfill some male fantasies of mine. Along those lines, I decided it was time to start my own (small) open source project, something that appeals to my testicular need to build things ... http://jeremyosborne.com/2008/07/09/two-and-red/ 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 ... http://jeremyosborne.com/2008/07/09/new-site-design/ Well, Alan Rickman is british and I'm quoting him. And he's starring in a movie centered around the year of my birth: http://www.bottleshockthemovie.com Fine, if Alan Rickman doesn't do it for you, throw in Eliza Dushku and you should be set. At least I am. http://jeremyosborne.com/2008/06/25/im-just-british-and-well-youre-not/ 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! http://jeremyosborne.com/2008/06/20/a-flashback-90s-web-browser-pop-up-attacks/ 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 ... http://jeremyosborne.com/2008/06/06/gay-marriage/ 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 ... http://jeremyosborne.com/2008/05/19/money-food-or-something-else/