I joined Audible.com in 2002. I had a long commute and I’d been buying audiobooks for a few years from Books On Tape and Recorded Books. Books On Tape had recently announced they were discontinuing non-institutional services. Bummer. Recorded Books didn’t have much… Read More ›
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175,000 HITS AND A SERIOUS CHAT WITH WORD PRESS
Today I discovered that the new format for inserting media into a post has eliminated all the search tools that worked. If you are a photographer, this is disastrous. Those of you who work with pictures will see what I… Read More ›
MYSTERY ENDING — DROPPING THE OTHER SHOE
MYSTERY ENDING – WEEKLY WRITING CHALLENGE – This weekly writing challenge focuses on the “weekly” part — start your post today, and build on it for the next four before publishing. Who knows where you’ll end up? I promise, if there are developments, I’ll add them…. Read More ›
MYSTERY ENDING — BECAUSE BANK OF AMERICA CARES? REALLY?
Yesterday was an easy day. A little humid. A trip to the grocery to pick up a few things, a prescription. A baseball game and the Sox won. They’re on a winning streak. They’re so deep in a hole, it’ll… Read More ›
THE PINGBACKS ARE BACK.
THEY FIXED THE LINKS TO THE DAILY PROMPT. Apparently complaining works a lot better than assuming they will take care of business without prodding. Lesson learned. Make noise. Complain. Be the squeaky wheel!
OBSOLETE? I THINK YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT ME!
Going Obsolete Of the technologies that have become extinct in your lifetime, which do you miss most? I was declared obsolete about 6 years ago. I had been getting progressively less relevant for quite a while, but after the dot coms went down… Read More ›
TECH SUPPORT – WHERE “BAD” IS THE NEW “GOOD”
Bad customer and technical support is the new good. You only think it’s bad. The problem is your attitude. Or so they’d have you think. YOU CAN RUN, BUT YOU CAN’T HIDE All the big technology companies are working hard… Read More ›
HELL IN A HANDSET
Originally posted on Beasley Green:
Although it seems a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, it wasn’t too long ago when receiving a letter or correspondence through the post was greeted with excited anticipation. Now the sound…
THROWING THE WORLD AWAY
It’s not about Windows: The repairable PC is dead … Amazon, who launched their Workspaces offering yesterday, which provides a remote Windows environment that allows you to run all of your business-critical and personal applications in EC2. Amazon is certainly… Read More ›
GEEKOGRAPHY: DOWN IN FLAMES WITH QUICKSAND AND ALLIGATORS
I’m pretty good with computers. I’m not an engineer, but I’m reasonably competent and not easily daunted. But, there comes a day for humility, when one finds oneself in the high-tech equivalent of quicksand. With grinning alligators on all sides…. Read More ›
10 LITTLE THINGS TO MAKE YOU CRY UNCLE
Why does the translator always pop up and offer to translate my Spam? Isn’t there some way to make that go away and never come back? When I get put on hold, they always tell me how important I am… Read More ›
BULLETIN!! TOILETS DON’T FLUSH!!
Emergency measures have been initiated when our intrepid vacationers, Garry and Marilyn Armstrong of Uxbridge, Massachusetts realized they have bigger problems than they realized … and that’s saying something. Maintenance at the 1 star Cape Winds In Hyannis is rumored to… Read More ›