Annoying Customer Service Surveys
Monday, 31 January 2005I’ve noticed a trend in customer service surveys, and it annoys the heck out of me. It was clearly dreamed up by an idiotic manager whose passion for customer service far exceeded his (or her, although I have trouble imagining this as a woman) grasp on reality and common sense. The trend is that the [...]
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The Miracle of Grout
Monday, 31 January 2005The bathroom project, begun in November, is almost complete. I grouted the tiles this weekend. All that’s left to make the bathroom functional is a shower curtain rod and a shower curtain, both to be acquired and installed no later than next weekend. After that, I need to do some touch up painting, but I’ll [...]
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State Quarters
Saturday, 29 January 2005Back in Ithaca, I was actively collecting state quarters. Specifically, I was trying to obtain one of each state from each of the two main mints: Denver and Philadelphia. Philadelphia was easy, as the vast majority of the quarters circulating in New York State (and in Virginia) were from the Philadelphia mint. For Denver quarters, [...]
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Economic Engagement
Friday, 28 January 2005Robert Wright is excellent in this morning’s New York Times. His piece lays out the argument for economic engagement as a means of ending tyranny and political oppression in the world. He also makes the case that President Bush seems to have a strangely low assessment of market forces as tools of foreign policy for [...]
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Brooks and Social Mobility
Tuesday, 25 January 2005David Brooks has a good column today on social mobility. He suggests (and I am inclined to agree) that social mobility (the ability of people to move up and down the socio-economic ladder independent of the position of their parents) is part of what makes America great. He also suggests that there are troubling signs [...]
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Major IM Crash
Tuesday, 25 January 2005I recently installed the new version of Trillian, the instant messaging (IM) client that I have been using for a while now. The new version worked great for a couple of weeks, but then one day I had a spectacular computer crash (not related to Trillian AFAIK), after which I couldn’t get Trillian to connect. [...]
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