Monthly Archives: December 2006

Requesting thoughts and feedback about a new “open-source” project

Take a look at open-source software. It’s collaborative, usually high-quality, and responsive to people’s wants and needs. Apache and Linux, for instance, are two prime examples of how people coming together can do quite a bit in the world, even if in a limited way.
Other fields of pursuit have an opportunity to capitalize the lessons [...]

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Followup on eMusic spam

I’m now forwarding the original email address to a black hole. Moving on…

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Verizon customer service can’t tell the difference between dollars and cents

As an exercise in intestinal fortitude, listen to as much of this following audio file as you can:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp0HyxQv97Q&eurl=
Verizon offers a cellular data product priced at $0.002 per kilobyte (two-tenths of one cent). However, when a Verizon rep quoted a price to a customer, they quoted the price as “0.002 cents”, or two-thousanths of one cent. [...]

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eMusic

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Update on eMusic Spam

I called eMusic today and had a chance to speak with one of their support folks. They were surprised that the email I forwarded them on Thursday didn’t get through - but in retrospect, it was probably caught by their junk mail filters. I’ve forwarded the spam to the support person directly, and they promised [...]

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Some delicious coffee

I’ve been buying coffee from Supreme Bean for a couple of years now. They’re recently created a “Dolce Terra” organic coffee that’s absolutely delicious. It’s a lighter roast with delicious earthy flavors that remind me of the best Kenyans or Sumatras, and it works brilliantly well for both drip and espresso. We just bought 5 [...]

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A privacy breach at eMusic?

” … We do not rent or sell subscriber email addresses to third parties; …” Mmmmhmmm.

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