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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
eBay Feedback
Huge amount of negative feedback. By far the most I've ever seen. Note to self, don't buy from this guy.
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Friday, November 11, 2005
A nod and a wink to procrastinators everywhere
I had been running a quote of the month for a while but then I just began to put it off. I won't try to explain any further.
Quote of the Irregular Interval
Several excuses are always less convincing than one. -Aldous Huxley,
novelist (1894-1963)
Quote of the Irregular Interval
Several excuses are always less convincing than one. -Aldous Huxley,
novelist (1894-1963)
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
Now Playing
Julie Lee on The Nashville Nobody Knows - nice voice, good material. She has a CD called Made From Scratch.
Monday, November 07, 2005
Let's Expand The Do Not Call List
Creating a Do Not Call list to stop the steady stream of calls from telemarketers that plagued everyone through the eighties and nineties was a good start but I think we ought to be able to add politicians, business groups* and Political Action Groups, PACS, to the list.
During the recent campaign here in Boston I have had at least two dozen calls and they have been just as much of an interruption and an inconvenience as all those old telemarketing pitches. Beyond that, they're not even calls from people. They're computer generated, some of them from out of state according to my caller ID, and for whatever technical reason the beginning is often cut off so the message will often begin with something like, "...ning for City Council and I would appreciate etc. etc. ...". People who are old enough to remember Bob & Ray and their old Wally Ballou routine will know exactly what I mean.
And...they use up time and space on my answering machine tape and there is every bit of a possibiltiy that the tape will run out and I will miss an important message because of the unwanted and irresponsible use of my machine. One more thing??? If you hang up on one of these calls they don't necessarily hang up right away so if you need to make an emergency call you might find that you're not able to dial out when you need to.
*The worst offender by far is the Small Property Owners Association. They have called at least five times and one of those calls was from Michigan so they're not even paying local people to do the work. They're effectively hiring carpetbaggers to harass me. For the rest, I think I've averaged two calls from everyone I'm eligible to vote for.
And last but not least, as bad as this might be for the average person it's worse for me because I am disabled and chasing the telephone is a problem even when there's not a campaign going on. If this is the new approach I am dreading the statewide and national elections when they come around.
During the recent campaign here in Boston I have had at least two dozen calls and they have been just as much of an interruption and an inconvenience as all those old telemarketing pitches. Beyond that, they're not even calls from people. They're computer generated, some of them from out of state according to my caller ID, and for whatever technical reason the beginning is often cut off so the message will often begin with something like, "...ning for City Council and I would appreciate etc. etc. ...". People who are old enough to remember Bob & Ray and their old Wally Ballou routine will know exactly what I mean.
And...they use up time and space on my answering machine tape and there is every bit of a possibiltiy that the tape will run out and I will miss an important message because of the unwanted and irresponsible use of my machine. One more thing??? If you hang up on one of these calls they don't necessarily hang up right away so if you need to make an emergency call you might find that you're not able to dial out when you need to.
*The worst offender by far is the Small Property Owners Association. They have called at least five times and one of those calls was from Michigan so they're not even paying local people to do the work. They're effectively hiring carpetbaggers to harass me. For the rest, I think I've averaged two calls from everyone I'm eligible to vote for.
And last but not least, as bad as this might be for the average person it's worse for me because I am disabled and chasing the telephone is a problem even when there's not a campaign going on. If this is the new approach I am dreading the statewide and national elections when they come around.
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
Drivers License Search - National Motor Vehicle License Bureau
Drivers License Search - National Motor Vehicle License Bureau
It's phony!!!!!!!!!!! Do a Google search for the National Motor Vehicle License Bureau and you very quickly find an explanation at About.com in their Urban Ledgends section. http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bldriverslicense.htm
>>There's just one slight hitch: It's a joke, a prank, a parlor trick. It ain't real!
Another visitor describes what actually happens when you type in your name and "search" the site:
"If you do enter a name, state, town and gender, what comes up is a picture of a grinning monkey and the question, 'You didn't really think you could get someone's driver's license on the Internet, did you?'" <<
It's phony!!!!!!!!!!! Do a Google search for the National Motor Vehicle License Bureau and you very quickly find an explanation at About.com in their Urban Ledgends section. http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bldriverslicense.htm
>>There's just one slight hitch: It's a joke, a prank, a parlor trick. It ain't real!
Another visitor describes what actually happens when you type in your name and "search" the site:
"If you do enter a name, state, town and gender, what comes up is a picture of a grinning monkey and the question, 'You didn't really think you could get someone's driver's license on the Internet, did you?'" <<
Drivers License Search - National Motor Vehicle License Bureau
Is this site legit? I just got an e-mail warning but you know how those can be, forwarded through a bunch of address lists, alarmist and not always accurate.
This is a test
The picture for my previous post did not come through. I used Picasa to blog it but they say it was not a legit jpg. Seemed legit to me. Anyhow, this was taken by friends in Paris.
And He's Modest Too
Head raised proudly, eyes fixed firmly on the future, adorned in regalia of cape and golden epaulets, our hero stands ready. Nothing silly or egomaniacal about this, nope, nuh uh, nah.
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