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By
thudfactor on
March 14, 2005
Forbes has an “interesting article”:http://www.forbes.com/2005/03/07/cx_cw_0308hate_print.html rating corporate “hate” sites — websites dedicated to poor customer experiences with various companies. But more than that: they went one step further and asked companies to respond. The responses were pretty telling.
Some companies refused comment, which was probably the safest route and I don’t think anyone can blame them for that.
A number [...]
Posted in Commerce
| Tagged Allstate, Verizon
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By
thudfactor on
September 3, 2003
We are lucky here — we can choose between two phone companies for our local service. Verizon and MCI. We chose Verizon because — frankly — we weren’t aware we had a choice. But the former occupant of this apartment had MCI service, and she neglected to turn off the phone line when she left the country.
It took MCI three weeks [...]
Posted in Archived Unsorted
| Tagged cell phones, Verizon, Williams
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By
thudfactor on
May 17, 2003
When we moved, we signed up for cable-based Internet services from Comcast. Now, those of you who know me outside of this weblog are probably aware of the infuriating experience I had when Comcast was using the @Home service. It’s not been quite so bad this time, but whereas @Home was a pain when you [...]
Posted in Archived Unsorted
| Tagged cable-based Internet services, Comcast, DSL, firewall, Google, LAN, Verizon
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By
thudfactor on
February 26, 2003
I don’t want to abolish government, I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub. [Grover Norquist]
Glen reacted rather strongly to Dennis Miller’s suggestion that protesters comparing Bush with Hitler should be physically beaten. And while I always cringe when someone brings [...]
Posted in Commerce, Politics
| Tagged America, Bush administration, Dennis Miller, Grover Norquist, Hitler, Kim Jong Il, Microsoft, Supreme Court, Time Warner, Verizon
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By
thudfactor on
September 3, 2002
Hey, folks. I’m still around. I’ve been quiet recently because my net connection is out. Well, actually, see, I’ve moved and I don’t have a net connection yet in the new place. It was supposed to be set up by now, but Verizon sent along two installation packs instead of one and when my roomate [...]
Posted in Archived Unsorted
| Tagged Verizon
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