…when the first words spoken are “I know this isn’t your fault, but I’m going to vent.” Nice. If you know it isn’t my fault, perhaps you could call the person who is at fault, and vent at them instead. Oh well, I was polite. I listened. I took their phone number. I’ll give it [...]
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You know it’s going to be an exciting customer support call….
Posted in Computing on Mar 30, 2012 |
I hates computers…
Posted in Computing on Apr 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I know, I’m writing this on a computer. I understand that. It’s not computing I hate. It’s computers. They’re unreliable, maddening, and will let you down at exactly the wrong moment. The software burps, the hardware gurgles, the connections frizzle….. No matter if it’s Linux, Windows or Mac…. make all the claims you will but [...]
Well, it’s official, at least for me…..
Posted in Computing, Internet on Apr 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
WordPress 2.5 rocks. This blog is hosted by WordPress.com, and it upgraded automatically. Pretty sweet. When the upgrade was available through my web hosting service for my WordPress install there, I clicked the button and converted that one to 2.5 as well. Had one minor hiccup- the WYSIWYG editor in that one didn’t work right [...]
You gotta love WordPress
Posted in Computing on Apr 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m sold on WordPress. I use it, hosted under GoDaddy.com, for my ministry site, AgapeModels.com, and for this blog, my own personal musings and ramblings. It just works so easy. Redirecting my jonbius.com domain name to this place was about too easy. The whole thing was working in about five minutes. Wish there were a [...]
So long Windows, hello Ubuntu Linux
Posted in Computing on Mar 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I had enough of Windows Vista, and installed Ubuntu Linux 7.04 on my laptop here at home. (Sorry, RMS… I meant to say Gnu+Linux…. or was it Gnu/Linux or Gnu-Linux? Anyway….) Install is flawless…. picked up my wireless network just fine, installed smoothly…. it all just works. Ubuntu has come a long way from when [...]
