Archive for January, 2009
While the Citibank Credit Card website does have a few good features (like being able to download PDFs of your statements), it does have one thing that I absolutely hate. Enough so that I complained about it to their customer service:
The “Select a Payment Date” portion of making an online payment is [...]
When I first read The War of Art, I could liken it to my desire to express myself more through writing. And it seems so hard. Just writing one thought a day shouldn’t be too hard, should it? I need to do a better job of following the book’s advice:
The most important thing [...]
A couple weeks after the previous debacle, I again had to make a phone call to SHPS to get my FSA straightened out. They had sent me another statement and everything that was listed as “Potentially Ineligible” before was now listed as “Ineligible”. Not much of an improvement, which led me back to where I [...]
There was a new edict dropped in my work e-mail mailbox this morning:
As part of our strategy to reduce costs and protect the environment, all color Xerox multi-function devices at the site are now set by default to print in black and white. If we limit our printing to [...]
If you’re thinking of getting on the love train this Valentines Day, you might want to try this Edible G-String and Bra combination. Just like the candy necklaces that you had when you were a kid. Of course, you have to be careful as the only reviewer (for the [Edible G-String][1] sold by itself) said [...]
Here’s a nice little tale about people who know better and still do stupid stuff:
Guy is a business owner. Guy signs contract to get a loan, using vehicle as collateral. Guy gets money and re-payment schedule. Guy watches as first payment due date goes wizzing by. Guy shows up next day with part of money owed. Company is nice enough [...]
If you ever have the need to do a mass download of pictures from Flickr, this guy has a setup that works pretty well using Firefox with the greasemonkey and DownThemAll! extensions installed, then the Link Original Image script for greasemonkey.
Most impressive.
When I hear about all of the problems that people usually have with the dryer eating socks, and trying to match them after they are washed, and having a drawerful of singles, I usually have to laugh. I came up with a system that takes care of all of the issues. I have two kinds [...]
This guy is mad because his car (he bought used) is out of warranty and GM wants to charge him to fix it. I would try to point out the logical flaws in his argument, but he doesn’t provide any logic. The customer is not always right and you sir, are an idiot.
Response to the [...]
I was reading in the AARP Bulletin this month a story about how bankruptcy judges should be able to cram down loans. The most interesting part of the article was an explanation from a non-profit:
Jed Davis, chief executive officer of Neighborhood Partnership Housing Services in Ontario, Calif.,a nonprofit operating in a region hit [...]