Archive for the ‘grumble’ Category
email like it’s 1995
The old joke There used to be a joke that people who didn’t ‘get it’ would send an email and then call the recipient up to check if it had been received. Now the joke’s on us Now, I am that joke. I think we all are. Email has reached a point where it’s just […]
Filed under: could_do_better, grumble, howto, software | 7 Comments
Tags: bacn, batch, blackberry, business edition, DNS, email, fail, false positive, GABE, GAPE, gapps, google, Google Apps, IP Lock, Postini, premier edition, quarantine, spam, SPF, support
My Kindle died two days ago :( Thankfully Amazon were pretty prompt in dealing with this. I called their Kindle helpline[1], a new one was sent out, and it arrived this morning :) It didn’t take long for me to restore all of my content, and things like bookmarks seem to be intact :) Unfortunately […]
Filed under: could_do_better, did_do_better, grumble, technology | 4 Comments
Tags: amazon, backup, collections, ebook, export, import, kindle, restore
I’ve been pretty gushing in the past about Lenovo and their netbooks, but more recently they’ve not been doing much to keep me happy. About 6 weeks ago I ordered an s10-3t ‘netvertible’ (a netbook crashed into a tablet). It wasn’t exactly what I wanted – I’d have liked a higher resolution screen, and built […]
Filed under: could_do_better, grumble, technology | 4 Comments
Tags: customer service, lenovo, s10-3t
uncommon sense
What we call common sense is all about risk, choosing to take risk at an emotional level rather than having somebody with a risk assessment form show up and fill it out whilst wearing a hard hat and hi-vis jacket then finally saying “I wouldn’t if I were you, something bad might just happen”.
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Tags: common sense, politics, risk
Custom CSS frustration
I spent a little time (well far too much really) earlier this week tarting up the corporate blog, so that it would look more like our web site. It wasn’t much fun. I’d had in mind that I might just merge the two, but it turns out that WordPress.com doesn’t offer the DNS flexibility that […]
Filed under: blogging, could_do_better, grumble | 5 Comments
Tags: CSS, Custom CSS, SandBox, theme, WordPress, WordPress.com
Uniqueness modifiers
Unique is like the Highlander, there can be only one.
Filed under: grumble, marketing | 2 Comments
Tags: marketing, sales, unique
In a TFhelL minute
Owwweeooo things ain’t gonna change. Minutes – exactly sixty seconds long except in New York (where they are reputably shorter, or at least busier) and on the London tube. The Jubilee Line has particularly long minutes. If you’re unlucky enough to use it regularly (which isn’t me any more since I escaped Canary Wharf at […]
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