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Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 30th, 2006
After living in our house for almost two years, I came to the realization that my office was one of the high traffic areas in the house. Most of our downstairs is tile, so high traffic doesn’t really show. The carpet in my office looked awful and I decided to get hardwood in it. I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 28th, 2006
This week, Garmin announced that they would have their Training Center software available by the end of the year (2006) instead of by the spring of 2006 like they said way back in January. I can understand software delays, but it should have been quite predictable from January. However, I’m pleased that MotionBased has a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 27th, 2006
I received a notice last week that I hadn’t paid the tax for my company and I owed $70 in penalties. This had me fuming mad because I had a copy of the check I sent in March and the check was included in my tax return; how did the state process the tax return [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 27th, 2006
When I was become an EMT (Emergency Medical Technician), we were taught to observe and report without making a diagnosis, because we were not trained to do so. This concept also applies to bug reports. Over the years I’ve seen users/customers report bugs and attempt to say why the bug is happening. Unfortunately, many times [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 26th, 2006
My wife thinks I’m crazy being a 33 year old, married man wanting to play with Legos. Well, I have news for her…I AM crazy! In my effort to build up a Lego town, I’ve started looking for bulk Legos as the most cost effective way of getting random parts to build buildings and such. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 26th, 2006
My wife and I went to hear a jazz band at a local restaurant last night (the band lead is the head custodian at her school) with a few of her friends. Having been to this restaurant before to here this guy play before and having experienced awful server, not to mention mediocre, over-priced food, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 26th, 2006
After repairing my refrigerator and then seeing the movie An Inconvenient Truth, it dawned on me that people probably have several appliances in their house that aren’t running efficiently and simple solutions might exist. In the case of my refrigerator, the blocked up grill probably caused the refrigerator to run twice as often as needed. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 24th, 2006
Lately I’ve noticed that that the freezer part of our refrigerator wasn’t keeping stuff completely frozen despite cranking down the temperature. What do I know about refrigerators? Turns out, I know enough about mechanical/chemical engineering to be able to understand a diagram of a heat exchanger. I took off the top panel of the refrigerator [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 23rd, 2006
After my phone call with the barely English speaking MCI representative yesterday where I hung up on him out of frustration (not being able to understand him and the representative not being able to think on his own were the causes of my frustration), I received an email from Rajmohan at MCI:
We appreciated the opportunity [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 22nd, 2006
So after writing my last post, I got a phone call from MCI customer service trying to explain to me that they pay the Federal Excise Tax directly to the government. The guy with a heavy, heavy accent was reading directly from some piece of paper and didn’t really understand what he was talking about. [...]
