The current economic climate in the U.S. is causing downsizing of customer options in leiu of price increases. Recently, Subway nuked the small drink size option. Panera no longer allows a half sandwich order. It’s a defacto price increase. Store hours are among the casualties, too.
05.06.08
04.21.08
What a perfect marriage. I never liked CrapUSA. It seems TigerDirect has bought them out, and now I am getting weekly spam about the CrapUSA store re-openings. I honestly don’t care. I unsubscribed — supposedly — after receiving the second email about them, but today I have yet another. Supposedly I am unsubscribed, again.
12.14.07
I was flipping through craigslist today and came cross a job posting for Web Freaks worthy of a ticket to planet clue. Let’s take a trip down the rabbit hole.
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12.03.07
Today I received my third email from someone claiming to be a Daniel Suarte, writing about filing open IT positions. However, I’ve never heard of this person before and I have no company or positions to fill. Clearly, this lamer is a spammer. He’s posting from a gmail account Daniel.Suarte@gmail.com. The email was not sent via gmail.
06.06.07
Damn. I’ve never quite had such a worthless experience with a company before. I shall attempt to explain. I signed up for a Citi Preferred Rewards card last year. When I called to activate the card, some dude from India harasssed me continuously about their credit production plan. But, I like signup bonuses, so I thought I’d enjoy more pain and applied this year for a Citi Professional card with 15,000 signup bonus points. Oops.
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05.09.07
Okay. Enough. I’ve been using Firefox since before the 1.0 release came out. I enjoyed version 0.8, even if it crashed a little. It was light weight and fast. Browsing was fun and fully featured again. KHTML wasn’t bad, but still didn’t support enough of the Web as I would have liked.
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04.30.07
I recently upgraded to Firefox 2.0.3. Previously I had been using a 1.5.x version. After discovering Firefox frequently using 100% of the CPU after using it only for a short while, I investigated further. It apparently is makes tons of gettimeofday syscalls. I stumbled upon a known issue in bugzilla. Mozilla runs at ~100% cpu usage after connection is interrupted or wakeup from hibernate or standby. I thought it was some page I was visiting, but apparently not. Firefox 1.5 doesn’t have this issue on my hardware platform, a Dell Inspiron 1100 running Linux 2.6.20.6 with the latest release of suspend2. I have downgraded back to 1.5, which I was happy with anyway.
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04.14.07
Which isn’t to say I find Experts Exchange dot Com not to be completely worthless, rife with mostly worthless “experts” and an obscene amount of ads. Thankfully, they’ve taken the first step towards pulling the plug on their worthless site by forcing you to register to view any threads that appear in Google. In Konqueror, when I hover over any answer, JavaScript is used to blur it so it is unreadable. In a more recent browser, I imagine the answers are completely hidden on page load. Exports Exchange, I raise my glass to your eventual extinction. Keep up the great work!
04.01.07
I had been looking forward to the latest release in the Silent Hunter series, Wolves of the Pacific. UBISoft’s track record in the past has been very poor, but I was still somehwat hopeful SH4 would be least mildly release quality when it finally hit the stores. Sadly, such is not the case. It appears SH4 is a complete and utter failure, yet another beta game shipped by UBISoft. I cannot say I am completely surprised.
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03.22.07
I had no idea my blog was so popular. 100,000 page views in ten days. That’s 10,000 views a day! What kind of crack am I selling? A quick check of the logs indicates it is merely referrer spam. I’ve never seen it so bad, though. Serious brute force is in play. Time to clean up.
01.29.07
It seems recently AT&T changed the terms of their phone card. It now costs additional minutes to make in state long distance calls. For example, 40 minutes now costs $0.2135 a minute within the state of Florida when the refill transaction cost is included. What a scam. A friend suggested Tel3Advantage.
01.24.07
I find myself unable to enjoy what would otherwise be a pleasant evening at Panera thanks to some tool from Envia. He’s spent the past two hours attempting to dup three teens into joining the pryamid scheme that is Vibe sales. It’s fairly disgusting. It seems to have been initiated in part by one of the teen’s mothers who apparently has already been dup’d. Insane.
08.05.06
Sigh. As is seemingly usual, on a clear night I lost power. DSL is apparently still up. My old APC Back UPS Pro 1100 is still running my two servers and firewall without incident after 20 minutes. My smaller UPS lost my desktop after less than ten minutes, though I had plenty of time to think up interesting commit messages for svn before my nightly source code commit.
06.28.06
Ever since 2003 or thereabouts, when PayPal began accepting credit card payments, I have been declining them when selling items on Ebay. Their ridiculous policy of assessing a 2.9% + $0.30 fee to any incoming transfer of funds, be it backed by a credit card, bank, or another PayPal account is simply unacceptable. Ebay now completely deletes aunctions if a seller chooses to accept PayPal, but states credit card payments through PayPal are not acceptable.
05.17.06
This exchange should prove amusing.