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Quickie Update, with an added Eulogy

Published on February 26, 2009 in Network News, Stories and Stupidity. 1 Comment Tags: Adventures in Road Rage, apologies, Blog News, Escort.

Apologies for not updating my site in a while! I suppose I shouldn\’t neglect my blog for so very long, especially when I have the software (WordPress) set to update automatically nightly from the development source, as well as the theme (K2). Continue reading ‘Quickie Update, with an added Eulogy’

Updated: Bill Smith Auto Parts

Published on June 9, 2008 in Stories, Stupidity and Technology. 1 Comment Tags: Bill Smith Auto Parts, computer, Review.

[Updated: 2008-10-12] [Updated: 2009-02-26] [Updated: 2009-03-04]
The eBay user known as billsmithautoparts is at it again. Not only did they jerk me around the last time I did business with them (which I throughly documented in that link), but now they\’re continuing to harass me, as shown in their comment to me. Continue reading ‘Updated: Bill Smith Auto Parts’

UPS – What I’ll Never Understand

Published on February 6, 2008 in Stupidity. 0 Comments Tags: musings, shipping, UPS.

ENGLEWOOD, CO, US
02/05/2008 5:35 P.M. DELIVERY
02/05/2008 5:06 A.M. OUT FOR DELIVERY
02/05/2008 4:01 A.M. ARRIVAL SCAN

How does it take 12 hours and 29 minutes for a package to be delivered after going out on the truck? I can understand if I was some distance away from their facility – but I live 5 miles west of the Englewood, Colorado UPS facility. Used to drive by the place all the time when I was bored at work. Continue reading ‘UPS – What I’ll Never Understand’

eBay Bidders Beware: billsmithautoparts

Published on July 17, 2007 in Stories, Stupidity and Technology. 4 Comments Tags: asshattery, Bill Smith Auto Parts, computer.

This is one of the people they tell you to watch out for on eBay. At first, it looks like a nice operation run by decent people. However, once you have a bad experience with them, they become a nightmare. Sure, they do have a 99.7% positive feedback on over 8000 transactions, but the problems they DO have are significant. Continue reading ‘eBay Bidders Beware: billsmithautoparts’

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That’s odd. I just noticed, Twitter Tools is putting the wrong date on my tweets. Today already has a post created, and today’s posts will show as tomorrow. That is, unless I change something. So, I just tweaked the settings so Twitter Tools will fire off the digest of my tweets at 11:59 PM, rather than 12:00 AM. Hopefully, that will address the problem. If not, I’ll have to find a different solution.

In other news, I’ve also added a script to my hosting account that will automatically loop through the database and close comments (but leave pingbacks open) on all Twitter Tools postings. All I get on those is comment spam anyway, easily weeded out by Spam Karma & Akismet.

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A wireless headset has many advantages over a wired one. One of which is the ability to hit the head late at night with other people in the house trying to sleep, but still rock out.

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Thanks to TweetDeck Support posterous for getting my issue with a blank TweetDeck after a fresh install fixed!

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My pages have apparently all reverted to posts with the latest database upgrade… please stand by while this problem is fixed.

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If you want to hear something bizarre, simply play Rhianna’s Disturbia over ICP’s Let’s Go All The Way. Weird.

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