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Blogging code of ethics
Yesterday I was reading an article by Walt Mosberg and read his code of ethics where he says that he doesn't accept money or products (to keep) from companies whose products he reviews. This is quite admirable and lets him say whatever he wants. I, on the other hand, will accept money or products from anyone that wants to send them my way!
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Bad joke
Today I'm traveling for business and neglected to print a copy of my boarding pass (I didn't save my boarding pass to a PDF, but printed it directly to my printer) for my expense report (I'm on Southwest where they collect boarding passes), so I went to the counter and asked if I could get a receipt. The agent, with a straight face, told me it was going to cost me $5 for it. I fell for it, hook, line and sinker! With airlines charging fees for everything, is it all that unreasonable that Southwest would charge for a receipt? I didn't think so. The ticket agent got a good laugh out of it; I'm glad she got a good laugh out of me!
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Quality built in
On Friday, I bought a new gas grill to replace our aging and potentially dangerous grill (it had rusted parts and replacing the pieces would be more costly and time consuming to fix). I went to Home Depot and bought the cheapest one I could find as I eventually want to install a permanent grill in our backyard. I bought the cheap Brinkmann and it seems to work fine. The electronic ignition seems to work fine. I noticed this part hanging from the grill and thought that maybe it was to somehow light the grill when the ignition stopped working. Well, I was right; it is a match holder.
Wow, building in a backup when, not if, the electronic ignition fails. That's pretty funny. OK, I know that electronic ignitions fail (the one on our last grill failed years ago), but this just made me laugh. -
This is my blog
Recently I've received some pretty mean spirited comments about what I've posted. Well, this is my blog and it serves as a means for me to express my opinions; if no one read it, it wouldn't matter to me. This is a journal for me. Maybe I should simply make it private, but there is some information in it that is useful to others and some people have really good comments.