Was to Mike the AT&T field technician who called to check on things after he upgraded the throughput on my service and left his cell phone number as a call back. I called him around noon. Told him my saga in trying to get a wireless gateway. Asked him if he had one on the […]
Continue reading →Remember Nina. That lady I thought was a god send. She’s a liar too. My wireless modem never showed up on Friday. Gotta give AT&T a little credit though. Mike showed up. I speed tested the AT&T service on Friday morning. Maxed out at 3Mbps. I signed up for 6Mbps. So I had to call […]
Continue reading →I called AT&T to inquire about Internet service pricing last week. They slammed me. I figured this out last night when I got home and there was a package on the porch. Took it inside. Opened it. Saw a DSL modem. Livid. This started 10 days ago. I made an inquiry to AT&T sales. Wanted […]
Continue reading →That is the question. One of the mainstay features on FoG over the past two years has been the "quote of the week". It is a post that appears every Friday at noon (I tried 3:14 for a period, but noon works better). It started as a throwaway, something to get a quick and easy […]
Continue reading →I woke up to a little tweet from Tony, the CEO of Zappos, yesterday. The @missrogue he refers to is Tara Hunt, who specializes in community marketing. Running 197 slides and introducing terms such as homo-feelgoodomicus, this presentation is amazing and a must view for anyone looking to build a successful business, be it online […]
Continue reading →This little surprise showed up today: Dear Lance Weatherby, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN®) recently agreed to reduce their Registrar Transaction Fee from $.25 to $.22. What does this mean for you? Good news. You have been credited $.03/yr for each domain name you registered or renewed dating back to July […]
Continue reading →This bad: From: y-alerts@reply.yahoo.com Date: April 13, 2007 1:04:27 PM EDT To: my email address Apple delays launch of operating system Notice the time date stamp. Apple issued the press release announcing this at 4:30 PM EDT yesterday. It showed up via RSS very, very shortly thereafter. Yahoo! Alerts has over a 20 hour lag […]
Continue reading →Part of the auto-reply from a Technorati support submission: Dear Technorati User, Thank you so much for taking the time to drop us a line. If you are reporting a problem you may be having you will be contacted by a support technician once we have had a chance to review your message. If you […]
Continue reading →Do credit cards have digits to represent the month of the year and nearly every web site requires that you select the month by its proper name? Is it a fruad detection test to see if you are smart enough to do a conversion and thus worthy of a credit card? Some people even think […]
Continue reading →I have been a loyal subscriber to The Wall Street Journal since 1987. Or I should say a loyal subscriber until last week. It seems that the WSJ has decided to reward my loyalty by charging me 76% more then what they charge new customers. As a new customer I can get a deal where […]
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