Which is to say, here goes quite a bit. I’m about to try to update my WordPress 2.5 to 2.7. I just did that over on colonelpod.com with the click of a button, because I had that boy on SimpleScripts. And that’s nice. But I haven’t converted this one, yet. The one thing SimpleScripts doesn’t … Read more
The markets are in a free fall. Friday the Dow swung 1000 points. (18% down for the week) At the end of the day, it rallied to only be 150 down. Hoping positive thoughts for the G7 Financial Ministers meeting this weekend. They think they’re going to get seven pre-eminent economists to agree on a … Read more
18 days after the storm and I get the runaround or the cover-my-ass questions from the AT&T reps. “you only contacted us this morning for the first time?” Since I’ve been without power for 14 days and couldn’t confirm their outage, they will want me to pay. And on top of that they have NO … Read more
There have been several stories in the news about companies “listening in” on the Twitter feed for people struggling with their products, and providing personal support. A reactive Squeaky Wheel policy that can preempt possible public bad mouthing before it happens. (Or truncate it soon after it begins.) Since those examples, I’ve made a point … Read more
If you haven’t noticed, our government hasn’t been regulating things in this country for about eight years. It cuts across almost every agency in the bureaucracy. Mostly they just unfunded the regulators or told them to stop doing their jobs. See recent headlines on airplanes being grounded because they hadn’t been inspected in timely fashion … Read more
I may push the iPods a bit more than most, but I find all kinds of bugs in them. I could consistently crash my nano when I first got it. After one software update, that was fixed. After a few more, most of the non-crash bugs were gone. I was left only with interface annoyances … Read more