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Just call me Jack
Yesterday, I went to pick up some takeout and after waiting a bit and hearing them call "Jack" a few times, the cashier called me up and gave me my food. Hmmm, last time I checked, my name wasn't Jack. I paid by credit card and showed the cashier my driver's license to verify the name on the credit card and she entered my name as Jack. Scott, Jack, what's the difference?
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No wonder governments are so inefficient
I went to send a complaint to my local councilman and visited his Web site. He had a contact form, so I filled it out to complain that vegetation has become overgrown on a stretch of sidewalk that we use making it more difficult to walk our dog and push our son in his stroller. I hit the submit button multiple times using Safari and nothing happened. I went to Firefox, filled out the form and something happened. "Page Not Found". Wow, that's great. So I looked at the source and whoever worked on the page had uncommented the line for the testing server and commented out the line for the production server, thereby causing the form to goto a server that would appear to be only accessible internally.
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Tired of crappy HP Scanner software
Just about everyday, I get crash reports from customers using HP scanners. The latest one I got, the customer was quite angry at me because DocumentWallet kept crashing. He finally sent the crash log and look at what it contains:
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Zip ties to the rescue!
Several weeks ago our dishwasher stopped functioning properly; the door to release the soap stopped opening during the cycle. After this happened a number of times, I decided to take a look. I don't have a problem calling a repairman, but the last time we called an appliance repairman, I felt like an idiot. Our stove had an auto-igniter and it kept clicking in order to re-light when it was already lit. The repairman took a look, asked if I had a file and filed the tips of the igniters. Uhh, I could have done that myself.