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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
Archive for the ‘Electronical’ Category
Warners’ Stellian closes the deal
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008I got a call from the customer service manager today checking in to make sure that everything went ok with the replacement of the washing machine. She told me she had read my previous post.
Everyone fumbles the ball sometimes. Not everyone picks it up and scores a touchdown.
My thanks to Warners’ Stellian for making things right and helping me start making progress on my enormous pile of clothing.
They kept me as a customer.
Satellite radio
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008Who knows about these things? I need information for a X-mas present. Sirius? XM? Hard to install in the car? Can it be used both in the car and at home? WTF!?? Apparently no one at the local electronic type stores know anything about this stuff. If you haz knowledge pleez share!
Warners’ Stellian ruined my X-Mas
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008I took charge of the project to acquire a new washer and dryer for our home. It was a big risk because my wife likes to research new appliances very thoroughly to assure that we are buying something of high quality, durability and value. I just went to the store and talked to someone about it and decided what I wanted. No research, no reviews.
Warners’ Stellian made the delivery last Thursday, our new Electrolux front load washer and dryer! They also took away our old machines.
During the process of hooking up the washing machine it was discovered that a valve was broken. Warners’ Stellian did not have the valve available and it had to be ordered from Electrolux. Couldn’t I just get a new machine? No. This damage can occur in transit and Warners’ Stellian could not assure that the same thing would not happen again. So I had to wait for a new valve to be shipped. It was supposed to arrive today.
We have been six days without being able to wash our clothes. With two little kids our dirty clothes pile is starting to take over an entire room.
I got a call from Warners’ Stellian last night. I did not get the message until late in the day and was not able to return the call until this morning. Apparently the valve is not coming and Electrolux has “authorized” Warners’ Stellian to deliver a new washing machine. They can deliver it on Friday.
Question #1 - What if the valve gets damaged in shipping on this new machine?
Question #2 - FRIDAY!? Nine days without being able to do laundry? Are you f-ing kidding me?
I told the customer service agent that if I did not have a new washing machine up and running by the end of today then they could refund my money and pick up both machines on Friday. She told me they would deliver a new machine tomorrow.
Now I just have to figure out a way to tell my wife. She’s never going to let me forget this.
UPDATE #1 12/24/08 Warners’ Stellian saves X-Mas
UPDATE #2 12/24/08 Warners’ Stellian closes the deal
e-mail signatures
Monday, December 22nd, 2008I get e-mails all the time with a bunch of crap at the bottom that implies that the contents are some kind of national security secret and I better be damn sure that I am the intended receiver. Like this:
Information transmitted by this email is proprietary to _________ and is intended for use only by the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is private, privileged, confidential or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient or it appears that this mail has been forwarded to you without proper authority, you are notified that any use or dissemination of this information in any manner is strictly prohibited. In such cases, please delete this mail from your records.
Whatever…
Does anyone even read that junk? Do these warnings actually carry any weight of actual law or are they just some cop out if you accidentally send all the company trade secrets of Pepsi over to Coke?
I put this at the bottom of my e-mail messages about 2 months ago and no one ever said anything about it:
I am very important and this message probably contains information which may be confidential, privileged or highly embarrassing. Unless you are the addressee (or authorized to receive for the addressee, or authorized by an authorized receiver authorized by addressee), you may not use, copy or disclose or acknowledge to anyone the message or any information contained in the message or that this message, or the message sender, ever even existed. If you have received the message in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail, print out and eat the message. Once you have consumed the message please delete yourself.
No one cares about your stupid e-mail message, get over yourself.
Fer Sale
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
USI Minneapolis wireless modem.
If you sign up for the service you are going to need one. They will rent it to you for $4.95 per month or you can buy it for $79.95 per month.
Or you can buy mine for $30.00. Works just fine, I just switched to Comcast because I wanted a bit faster connection speed.
Let me know if you have interests.
Atari 400
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
I had one of these when I was 11 years old. I really wanted a computer so I saved my money and bought one myself.
It was not much good at actual computing, but the Star Raiders game was the coolest thing I ever played.
That keypad was a real piece of crap.
Newton
Friday, December 5th, 2008
I knew I has seen this iPhone somewhere before.
I soooooo wanted a Newton back in the day. I think they were somewhere around $1000 and I could never justify the expense. It’s probably good that I never bought one because the handwriting recognition on those things sucked ass.
In 1998 my bike team (GIS, eventually Birchwood) bought me a Palm III instead. I have been using PDA’s ever since and data that I entered in that thing 10 years ago has been moved from device to device and is sitting in my iPhone today.
Windows Mobile to iPhone 3G - First Impressions
Monday, December 1st, 2008
So I have had the douche phone for almost 3 days now.
What I like so far:
- The operating system is a total slam dunk. Application fire up almost immediately. None of the annoying delay so common with my HTC TyTn II. I don’t have to figure out how or where to install applications and performance has been predicable. More than I can say for WinMo devices.
- Call quality is without problem, something I heard was an issue with the previous iPhone version.
- Applications are easy to find and download via iTunes. I wonder if Apple would have used a different name for this software if they knew what it would eventually be used for.
- The screen is amazing. Much better touch control than my HTC devices.
- Safari browser. Far better than the mobile version of Internet Explorer on WinMo and better than any of the alternative browsers I tested on WinMo.
What I don’t like:
- Keyboard. Coming from a device with an actual build in keyboard, going to a device with an on screen keyboard is difficult. There is pretty much no way I can write a long e-mail with this thing.
- Battery life. I can’t get a full day of use out of this thing without having to plug in. I thought the battery was bad on WinMo phones but this is worse.
- E-mail. It works fine as far as synching with my various mail servers, but the actual software is cumbersome to navigate. With Windows Mobile you could select the mail server you wanted to check and it would dump you right into the inbox for that server. With the iPhone you have to back out of the inbox of the current mail server all the way to the e-mail selection list before moving forward to the new e-mail server and then to the inbox of that server. Not too clean. I also don’t like the fact that you can’t have custom signatures for each e-mail server. You only get one. That’s kinda lame.
- No cut, copy or paste. It may not sound like a big deal but I used this feature quite a bit on Windows Mobile. If you want to copy some text from a website or an e-mail and save it as a note, sorry - no go. Maybe Apple will update their OS with this feature at some point. It’s really a no brainer. Cut, copy, paste has been a feature of word processing since the early 1980’s. It’s absurd that this is not a feature on the iPhone.
Everything else so far seems so good. Exchange synchronization is working just fine. I seem to blow through these devices every year or two so I am sure that I will be looking to dump this thing once the next best thing comes along.
