Well, I finally did it. I found my 2000th cache. I did it with a week to spare in the year, too. To tell you the truth, getting to 2000 wasn’t very enjoyable, at least in the last month. Geocaching became something I “had” to do rather than something I wanted to do. I was …
And it rocks. Christmas and all has kept things hectic and I’m busy playing with it and hopefully collecting some accessories as gifts in the next few days. I talk more about it later. But first, my first picture taken with the camera on a partially willing subject.
I think the day has finally arrived. I sent another nastygram to Amazon on Friday about the status of my packages and this is what they said: During the holiday season it is common for UPS to not scan the package until it arrives at your local UPS hub. This is why there isn’t updated …
Anne was really in the mood for waffles last weekend, but for whever reason we didn’t get around to having them for breakfast. The dinner time discussion came around last night and she announced that she still wanted waffles. At first I outright refused. Breakfast for dinner? I don’t even know what to call that. …
There’s a strange thing that goes on when you start putting your thoughts on the web. You never seem to know what people will connect with. Last August I wrote a blog entry on the demise of the Sunnyvale Town Center Mall. People continue to comment on that post, something I just spewed out on …
I’d really like to get a hold of Amazon’s shipping time machine. Apparently they can ship something from Kentucky and get it to California on the same day. They can also go back in time and get it there the day before. Wow! Of course I haven’t receieved either. The funny thing is that UPS …
Yesterday, I got a response to my last nastygram to Amazon: Thank you for writing to us at Amazon.com. We are very sorry for the delay in completing your order. I have reviewed your account and can see that this experience has been far less than positive. We strive for convenience and efficiency at Amazon.com, …
I’ve been a fan of Amazon for a long time, but lately their site has been unstable and they’re not shipping things on time. Today I called them for the second time about my Treo 650 and I was told that it was delayed because I changed my shipping options and then changed it back. …
OK, maybe it’s only a “National” event in Boulterland, but it’s been a good week for killing spam. First, I eliminated comment spam on my blog with the world’s simplest Turing test – Jeff Barr’s quick hack to WordPress. Unfortunately it only works for people named “Jeff”. 🙂 I did tweak it a bit to …
Jakob Neilsen’s latest alertbox column lists the top most hated advertising techniques on the web. Unfortunately, Yahoo’s still doing many of them. Loads slowly: There are horrible ads on Yahoo that load javascript from pointroll.com and questionmarket.com among others. These are being served from third party sites and often they’re ridiculously slow. When javascript is …