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| Saturday, November 21st, 2009 | | 10:47 am |
Windows 7 running tally of issues and fixes: Juice Receiver (podcast downloader): Vim: Palm - I'm not even going to go into the hoops I had to jump through to get the Palm HotSynch to work with Windows 7. I'll just say that it involved a bluetooth dongle, seven or eight different screens of data, the sacrifice of a peep bunny, and other unmentionables.
| | Friday, November 13th, 2009 | | 5:54 pm |
Follow-up from Comcast regarding my problem with Ecobill
Hi Paul,
I have confirmed you will need to login with your Comcast.net email address to access ecobill. If you wish to receive at another email address, email forwarding, will need to be turned on. We are working to add this feature at a later date.
Thank you,
George [Redacted] Comcast Corporate Office (Obviously, edited to remove the last name of the representative) Thanks for the quick reply. Didn't help me much, this was a service you used to offer. Current Mood: annoyed | | Thursday, November 12th, 2009 | | 11:38 pm |
Many thanks to horvendile for pointing me to this evening's minor rant. The scene: Acme Markets in Medford, NJ. A tired misch is getting groceries on Tuesday night. He needs milk. Fark. It's $3.79 a gallon. But misch is tired, and the thought of going to another store after his workout makes him all stabby. misch sees the Lehigh Valley Dairy Fat Free milk on the shelf. In big letters, it reads "Lehigh Valley Fat Free Skim Milk" Right next to it on the shelf is the Acme brand milk, with a "Hey, this price is cheaper!" tag. It's also got a light blue label. So, misch grabbed the Acme brand milk with the blue label. When misch got home, misch noticed he bought 2% milk. misch was a little bit annoyed. Okay, Acme. Pro tip: Either group your milk by brand, or group your milk by type. Don't group it by color, since your colors do not have the same meaning. I'm not the only person to notice this. That certainly looks like Lehigh Valley milk on the left, and Acme brand milk in the back. Lehigh Valley: Red: Whole milk Blue: Fat free Acme Brand: Red: Whole milk Blue: 2% Now, the picture is great, I like how their milk is laid out in the picture. Lehigh Valley is in the left bay, Acme is in the bays to the right. At the Medford Acme, the gallon milk containers are grouped by color. Lehigh Valley light blue next to the Acme brand 2%. Perhaps they could fix this? Thanks, misch | | 8:38 am |
Dear Comcast: Thanks for making your "ecobill" systemp pretty useless to me. Up until my move this past September, I was happily using your ecobill to receive electronic notification of my Comcast bill. I was very pleased with the system, I could download my bill on demande, and print it out on my own if I wanted a hard copy. Then I moved. I had a new account set up at my new address. Then I discovered a new annoyance: You cannot set up ecobill to use an e-mail address other than the comcast.net address associated with your account. Since I never use an ISP provided e-mail address, I find this to be rather annoying. I really don't want to go through the hassle of setting up a new account in my mail reader to get one message a month. I don't want to forward all e-mails from the one account to my personal addresses. comcast.net is too vulnerable to dictionary attacks, and I don't want to deal with the spam. I wasted an hour waiting for a customer service representative on Tuesday morning trying to figure out what my username and password for comcast.net are. The foreign representative couldn't help me, and I had to be transferred to a stateside supervisor who informed me that they couldn't change the e-mail address that the ecobill notice was sent to. The last Ecobill e-mail notice I received was dated 9/21/09. Bad service? That's Comcastic! Current Mood: annoyed | | Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 | | 8:14 pm |
| | Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 | | 7:30 am |
Dear CourierPostOnline.com: I am one of the people who read your RSS feed nearly daily. For about the past two weeks, your RSS feed has been unusable. For some reason, your RSS feed puts the address "moc.go4f" at the front of the address. The moc.go4f.courierpostonline.com subdomain is not visible to the world. Even worse, your current RSS Feed Listing returns 404 errors on all the listed RSS feeds. ( Like this one) I've tried to use your contact form for New Media Editor Mark Correa to let him know about the problem. After clicking on "Send Message" on the form, I get this error message: Initiating new verification scheme
Key verification is enabled - initiating
Validation key found - starting decode
Validation key life time set to 15 minutes
Invalid verification key provided!
Key verification FAILED
Verification FAILEDLuckily a google search turned up a contact point for their New Media editor. Hopefully direct contact will work better. | | Sunday, October 11th, 2009 | | 11:24 pm |
We have blinds! We have a bed! ningeek and I were very hands on DIY today. We put up the blinds, and discovered that we were about an inch too low in installing them. Instead of moving the bracket up, we cut the blinds down. They came out great, and now we have some privacy in the dining room. It's actually starting to look like a home. Now to figure out this "how to live together" thing. | | Friday, September 11th, 2009 | | 8:36 am |
| | Thursday, September 10th, 2009 | | 11:56 pm |
Damn Verizon Wireless. Recently I got a new phone ("new every 2" upgrade.) I asked for them to transfer my contacts. The guy said he'd do it. He did it. Then he said "I also downloaded Verizon Navigator for you" He told me it was some amount of money per month, and I can cancel at any time. I never asked him to download it. I was charged $9.99 for the data download. I have a GPS. I don't need another one. EDIT: Double screw up. The $9.99 data charge for the VZ Navigator was actually refunded. I missed that. The other data charge came from the Verizon Wireless store rep downloading music to my phone. How nice. That charge has also been refunded, and my bill is back to the amount I expect it to be for my plan. | | Sunday, August 23rd, 2009 | | 10:08 am |
| | Thursday, August 20th, 2009 | | 11:20 pm |
Peter Mulvey on tour, September 9-26 " The Long Haul Tour 2009", Peter will be traveling by bike from show to show, an estimated 1100 miles, starting in Grand Rapids, Michigan and ending in Northampton, MA. | | 7:16 am |
| | Monday, August 17th, 2009 | | 10:56 pm |
Protip: The U-Haul dish saver kit doesn't actually include the box in the kit (despite the label insisting that it does) If you buy one, be sure to ask for the box. | | Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 | | 10:21 pm |
via Facebook: David Hein's musical "My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding" is going to be produced by Mirvish Productions and will be at the Panasonic Theatre on November 7th. (Hint: Mirvish Productions is responsible for REALLY BIG productions in Toronto... like "The Phantom Of The Opera"... "Mamma Mia!"... "The Lion King", they have also developed other shows from the Fringe Festival. Mirvish Productions says: "It doesn't often happen that a show leaps straight from its fringe beginnings and lands in the mainstream. The last time it happened was 10 years ago with a little show we discovered (also at the Toronto Fringe) called THE DROWSY CHAPERONE, which we helped to develop over a workshop and several productions. And everyone knows what eventually happened with that show." via StumbleUpon: Virtual Shackles, webcomic. Not a lot of strips in its history, but it made me laugh. | | 6:41 pm |
| | Monday, August 3rd, 2009 | | 10:41 pm |
Carsie Blanton's new album Buoy is now available on CD Baby. Special deal: Buy one copy at regular price, and extra copies are $9.60. This is good today (August 3rd) and tomorrow (August 4th). | | Sunday, August 2nd, 2009 | | 10:08 am |
| | Monday, July 27th, 2009 | | 10:07 pm |
| | Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 | | 1:58 am |
| | Monday, July 20th, 2009 | | 7:23 am |
I listened to NPR's Hearing Voices on Sunday while I was driving from place to place. The theme of the episode was "Outer Space" in honor of today's 40th Anniversary of putting a man on the moon. I was kinda surprised to hear a familar voice during the program... it was a recording of Christine Lavin performing her song " Planet X" Also, flipping through Christine Lavin's press photo listing, I wonder if Gordon or I took this photo. Didn't Betsy Franco give one of us a camera to take a picture with? |
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