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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
It's not an agreement if it's forced on you. It might be a rule or a declaration or even a law, but it's not an agreement if you don't get the chance to agree to it.
The trend in online-enabled software these days is to have some kind of user ...
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Best part of tonight: Shouting at 10pm, along with a few hundred thousand of Chicagoland's finest, "7...6...5...4...3...2...1....(pause for CNN animation/graphic).....YEAAAAHHHHHHHH! WOOHOOO!"
Worst part of tonight: DH driving me to train station where I left my car this morning only to find a dead battery due to me leaving ...
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
I see no point to the "Did you see my/her/his e-mail?" e-mail, nor its close cousin, the "Please respond to my/his/her e-mail," e-mail. It is particularly vexing when received less than 24 hours after the original mail, and it's downright annoying when received less than 8 hours after the ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
(For full understanding, please reference this post.)
So, I got a response from EA this morning. The response basically was telling me that I can't get two pieces of equipment replaced on the same RMA and I need to open a separate RMA for the guitar.
Yeah, as you can imagine, ...
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
I am at my wit's end with EA's support. I will recap below. Please note that the PDFs that I will be linking to are anonymized printouts from EA's support site. To read them chronologically, you need to start at the bottom and read up.
On ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
It's one thing for a computerized algorithm as part of its regular parsing procedure to reject a two letter name; it's yet another for a human being assigned to the task of being smarter than the computer to follow the same ill-advised rule.
Congratulations, Facebook. You get to join the ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
I got two calls from my gyn office this morning. I just recently switched to a new office. I actually saw a Nurse Practitioner instead of a doctor, which is wicked cool to me, especially since my Aunt is a NP. She was extremely cool. I ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
As of an hour ago, I began having the symptoms of a cold or flu. My throat started hurting. I felt suddenly drowsy and dopey, for lack of a better word. (It took me darn near 30 minutes to finish that last post because I kept just ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
I had a doc appointment today to go over the results of my MRI. The good news is that I do not have a torn meniscus. My meniscus looks fine. The better news is that my ligaments in general look to be in great shape, that everything ...
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