‘K, so, something good actually happened on a Monday (yesterday).
My car is due for state inspection this month, and I need new windshield wipers. Last year I was caught for having old wipers. I had bought a new set of braces(is that what they’re called?)+blades a while ago, but hadn’t gotten the gumption to figure out how to detach my old wipers. So I finally decided to do so last night after I got home. In the dark. Well, with the streetlamps for light. In the cold. (more…)
Categories: Everything Else
Talk about a knee-jerk reaction…
A Roman Catholic elementary school adopted new lunchroom rules this week requiring students to remain silent while eating. The move comes after three recent choking incidents in the cafeteria.
Categories: Food · What were they thinking?
Killing Cingular Softly: In Defense Of AT&T
Marketers can be a sentimental bunch. ….How else to explain the marketing community’s continuing defense of Cingular Wireless?
Hmm, let’s see. Something called brand experience
This is a case, however, where emotion is coloring the facts…
Yes, yes it is. Emotion is coloring the response. That’s what a brand experience
Categories: Customer Service · Rants
As I contemplate moving this blog to its own domain name, I’ve been browsing WordPress themes to use and/or manipulate for my re-launch. What I have noticed is that so many WP themes are similar, as though the creators merely substituted different bullet images, a different header image, and new colors for links, etc. Many stick with a standard-type sidebar on the left or right. How dull.
Maybe the authors save the most creative themes for themselves instead of releasing them to the public. ;-)
But there are a few creative/fun themes out there, and I thought I’d give them some props here: (more…)
Categories: Artwork · Blogs, podcasts and rss, oh my!
Okay, it’s really annoying me that wordpress.com has implemented this “snap” preview window thing that pops up whenever you hover over a link. Oy!
In a search engine, this “snap” thing is wonderful — you get a little preview of the site without the time and frustration of clicking and going back, etc.
But it really annoys me when I don’t expect it and it suddenly appears in my face. And when it interferes with using a site by covering up navigation links or (usually) by blocking what I was reading. Yeah, it goes away when you mouse off, but what about those pages with a lot of links? Hard to miss hitting one and setting the preview thing off again.
I realize that it’s possible to turn it off. There is an “options” link in the corner of the snap window — click that and you have the option of turning off the tool for this site or for all sites.
But I wish I had a choice about it appearing on my blog. Hmm. Might be enough to make me move this thing to my Dreamhost account.
Categories: Blogs, podcasts and rss, oh my! · Hosting · Rants
