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Monday, June 22nd, 2009

I just stole $5 from Amazon

Amazon claims “We’re Building Earth’s Most Customer-Centric Company” and they deliver.  Every time I have had a problem, they jump through hoops to resolve it immediately.
Unfortunately,  I am unable to make myself understood by the Amazon tech support team, which leads to lots of problems.
This weekend I purchased about $6 worth of music downloads from [...]

Friday, March 13th, 2009

New Phone

I have a new T-Mobile G1 running Android from Google.  It’s an awesome upgrade from the Sidekick II I had been using.  Although it still feels very “rough” around the edges, I can see a lot of reasons why it’s exciting.
The architecture is pretty cool — applications are a bundle of entry points called “intents.”  [...]

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Verizon Customer Service is a little off too

So in the long trip to get a working TiVo with FiOS service, I’ve hit another snag.  Verizon insists on sending someone to my house to install the cable cards.  Why, I ask?  Because they are fragile.  (It costs $100 to replace them if they break.)  Yikes.
So after UPS (and I hate UPS) screwed up [...]

Friday, January 25th, 2008

I ☹ (hate) you, UPS

I ordered a TiVO on Tuesday night from Amazon with 2 day shipping.  It was too late in the day, so it counted as being ordered on Wednesday.  Estimated delivery?  Friday.  So, I called up Verizon to order cable cards for it.  They quickly scheduled a technician to come out (?!) and deliver them and [...]