Patronizing and pestering your customers has to be a losing strategy. At least I hope it is. Here’s a couple of examples from this weekend.
Verizon Fios says “Hey wow! The product you’re interested in is not available!”
I’ve never been a fan of Comcast service but there aren’t many other options. Access has been spotty the [...]

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I just noticed
this magazine in our studio. It’s called “GD USA.” The “GD” supposedly stands for “Graphic Design” but we all know what “GD” really stands for. Is this a secret dog-whistled message of support to leftist fifth-column liberal artists? Are they secretly funded by Obama’s pastor? And where does George Soros fit in? [...]

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A while back I complained about
Vista petering me constantly about whether or not I wanted my computer to do something I just asked it to do. It made installing software or debugging performance issues extremely annoying. Well, thankfully the people at Lifehacker
found a way to do that.

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The Washington Post has a … well, stupid article on Leap Day by
Monica Hesse.

It is here, in all its quadrennial springiness, like a cartoon Slinky boinging into the wall calendar.

That metaphor’s not so much mixed as it is puréed. She goes on:

Leap Day functions for us the same way it functions for Earth, after [...]

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A Windows Vista tale:
ITunes insisted on upgrading in order to add support for a feature I’m not likely to use and devices I don’t own. But I let it update anyway. The next time I tried to run iTunes it refused because there’s a problem with my audio configuration.
The solution: un-install then re-install Quicktime.
So [...]

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