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Monthly Archives: July 2008
Amazing customer service
In contrast to AT&T’s customer service or lack there of, my wife had a great experience with Amazon’s customer service. She purchased a case of Teddy Puffs for our son and when we received them, the expiration date was less … Continue reading
Unacceptable anti-spam system
A user contacted me about an issue this morning (basically a corrupted download of ReceiptWallet which most people would just re-download it and be done with it) and when I replied to the message, I got an anti-spam challenge that … Continue reading
(Not) leading by example
Today my wife and I were driving home from dinner and had just gotten on I-5 south to get to 163 North when she saw a San Diego County Sheriff’s Deputy driving with a cell phone to his ear. Yes, … Continue reading
Finding bugs automatically
A colleague pointed me at a tool called LLVM/Clang static analyzer which is supposed to find bugs in code automatically. I was skeptical at first as how could it do it? Well, after running it on a few projects, I … Continue reading
Cycle of fuel costs
The price of oil took a nice nose dive today. The news says that this is in part to expected higher inflation which is attributed to higher fuel costs thus lowering demand. If the price of fuel decreases because of … Continue reading
More AT&T Fun
So now that my voicemail is turned off on AT&T, I decided to look at call forwarding to forward my calls when I don’t answer the phone. In AT&T’s online phone manager, it clearly says that it will forward calls … Continue reading
Battling the phone company
So I switched us to AT&T to save a few bucks. I received the first bill and saw a charge of $8.95 for voicemail + $19.95 activation. Hmmm…I didn’t want to pay this and called them. They turned off voicemail, … Continue reading
Congress caused the gas price problem
In the president’s radio address this past weekend, he blamed Congress for high gas prices. He thinks that drilling everywhere is going to bring the prices down. Boy, and people actually elected this guy president? The high prices couldn’t be … Continue reading
How not to get contract work
I was browsing LinkedIn today as I got accepted to the iPhone Developer Group (whatever that really is) and noticed an ad at bottom: (URL removed to protect the innocent.) While it may seem that Google AdWords is a good … Continue reading
iPhone Development is Cool, but not easy
I’ve been doing some iPhone development lately (screenshots and announcement of my first app will be next week) and realized yesterday why I keep running into hurdles; I’m a perfectionist. I want everything to look and work well and have … Continue reading