Another semi-useless spot on the web…
Posted in Main on Jul 30th, 2008
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 than 6 months away. The boxes we have bought in the store expired about a [...]
Posted in Main on Jul 24th, 2008
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 sent me to a link. The link brought me to the following form:
First off, on [...]
Posted in Main on Jul 19th, 2008
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, this is illegal in the state of California! If he had been seen by a [...]
Posted in Main on Jul 17th, 2008
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 quickly became a believer! While it finds some stuff that isn’t technically bugs, it did [...]
Posted in Main on Jul 15th, 2008
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 this, will people use more fuel and therefore drive the price of oil up again? [...]
Posted in Main on Jul 15th, 2008
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 when I don’t answer the phone (see picture below).
Unfortunately this isn’t true; it immediately forwards [...]
Posted in Main on Jul 15th, 2008
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, but won’t credit me for the activation. I argued that adding voicemail wasn’t an option [...]
Posted in Main on Jul 14th, 2008
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 caused by supply and demand (lots of demand around the world), the war in Iraq [...]
Posted in Main on Jul 14th, 2008
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 way to get business, how many serious projects that are worth several thousand dollars do you think [...]
Posted in Main on Jul 12th, 2008
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 studied the built-in apps for guidance. In my app, the hardest part was the settings [...]
