2007/04/13 @ 2:13 PM
Ways to thrill a first time customer – Not
I placed a first time order with a company (a fairly high end company at that) for a total of 26 items. Today it arrived. The ‘quantity shipped’ on my packing slip shows all of the items listed and marked as shipped, nothing is marked on back order. How many items are missing? 7 That is a lot. That happens to be more than a quarter of them. How much did that bother me? So much that I called. I... read more
2007/03/04 @ 1:15 PM
Useful Things
MSN displays local gas prices. They are not the only site that does it, but I do find the ones that get updates from the gas stations to be more reliable than the user reported sites. Unfortunately they do not cover the membership gas stations (like Costco, at least not in my area). I still find them very useful. When it comes to shopping, I prefer to shop online. When you go to shop at a store, there are... read more
2007/02/13 @ 8:07 PM
I’ve been informed that the Hot New Thing
is twitter. I am skeptical that I will get much use out of it, but I mention it because I know a bunch of you despise losing your preferred userid to the unwashed hordes just because you didn’t know about something early enough. I signed up. The site has been very slow today, no surprise as reports from some conferences are that it is a big topic of conversation. At least it can be set to friends... read more
2007/01/08 @ 3:10 PM
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There is a website called 2smrt4u. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children joined together to fund a site to help teach safe and smart internet usage to teens. They have some reasonable tips, such as: DON’T Post your cell phone number, address, or the name of your school Post your friends’ names, ages, phone numbers, school names, or... read more