Archive for September, 2008

The Worth of a Guarantee (a sad but true story)

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3 years ago
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Internet problems. Not again. Not after everything I went through before, I thought.

The internet was down, all right. The tubes to my house must have been clogged. I had no choice, I had to call customer service.

I hate calling customer service.

I told the robot on the other end what the skinny was. He seemed sympathetic, but I suppose he was programmed to seem that way. Then I held. I held for what seemed like an eternity, playing solitaire and listening to jazz on speakerphone. Then she answered.

An accent, I thought. Fantastic. Why do they always have to have accents? Hers was More >

We now resume our regularly scheduled programming

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3 years ago
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Things have been pretty busy at Casa de Rage, lately, so I apologize for the dearth of posts. A great many things have happened over the past several weeks, and I look forward to telling you all about them. For now, here is a short summary of things that happened to me while I was away from the keyboard. During the time I wasn’t blogging, I:

  • Visited a casino and found out why the “Bet max” button on a slot machine should never be used.
  • Formulated a plan to help rid the world of terrible restaurant servers.
  • Perfected my Siegfried in Soul Calibur IV.
  • Had my Dash Express GPS break, and More >

Good times on the Web

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3 years ago
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I’ve gushed before about my web browser preferences, but these are exciting times for web surfers. Since the world-wide-web came into existence, web browsers have been like Sith – there are only two…two that count, anyway. And just like Sith, they may play nice while secretly desiring to destroy the other and rule the universe web. In the early days, it was Netscape dueling it out with Mosaic. That eventually turned into Internet Explorer vs. Netscape, which gave way to the Firefox/IE deathmatch. Web browsers have been like the de-facto two-party American political system, with fringe More >

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