Monday, August 28, 2006
Review of Web Based Word Processors
CNet review in the SF Chronic of web based word processors. The good? They're free and not Microsoft. The bad: according to the reviewer, they can only be used with an internet connection (yes, but isn't that why they're web based?) : Writing 2.0: Free Web-based word processors
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Phone(y) Service
Called Qwest a couple of weeks ago to transfer my landline number directly to my wireless service, also Qwest. Two different representatives told me me it couldn't be done. Knowing this to be untrue, I simply went to the Verizon website, ordered a snazzy phone, and requested that they tranfer, or as they call it, "port," my landline number.
When I checked on the order, I got an order not recognized response. I sent an e-mail requesting status and got back "your order should be shipped within 2-10 days" generic resoonse. I eventually recevied an e-mail saying that the order was shipped, but with no other info rmation. It would be nice to be able to track my order. I go through a similar process when checking on how the landline porting is going. Eventually I get an e-mail saying that Verizon has my order, and it should be done in two or so weeks. On a hunch I called Qwest to see if they had an order to transfer my landline number. Sure enough they did and gave me a due date on the order.
Lesson for Qwest: I might have kept my Qwest wireless service had their representatives been better informed or were able to access the correct information.
Lesson for Verizon: They wouldn't have to respond to my e-mails if their web based status system was actually working.
Disturbing trend: no where on the Qwest or Verizon site do they actually give you information on how to cancel your service.
When I checked on the order, I got an order not recognized response. I sent an e-mail requesting status and got back "your order should be shipped within 2-10 days" generic resoonse. I eventually recevied an e-mail saying that the order was shipped, but with no other info rmation. It would be nice to be able to track my order. I go through a similar process when checking on how the landline porting is going. Eventually I get an e-mail saying that Verizon has my order, and it should be done in two or so weeks. On a hunch I called Qwest to see if they had an order to transfer my landline number. Sure enough they did and gave me a due date on the order.
Lesson for Qwest: I might have kept my Qwest wireless service had their representatives been better informed or were able to access the correct information.
Lesson for Verizon: They wouldn't have to respond to my e-mails if their web based status system was actually working.
Disturbing trend: no where on the Qwest or Verizon site do they actually give you information on how to cancel your service.
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
One More Thing to Download
Microsoft is unable to get away from their traditional paradigm of having their brandname zeros and ones run on your machine. The Windows Live Writer reeks of Frontpage. Writer Zone: "Windows Live Writer is a desktop application that makes it easier to compose compelling blog posts using Windows Live Spaces or your current blog service. "
As for me, I'm waiting for the web browser that is accessed on the Internet.
As for me, I'm waiting for the web browser that is accessed on the Internet.
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Serial Killer Profiling
Separate article on the press workers who captured a dangerous Washington state fugitive: Captured: "'He didn't look any different from the other High Desert trash,' Iskandar said."
Washington State Serial Killer Captured in California
John Wayne Thomson was wanted for murder in Washington and California. He follows the three name convention used by newspapers and is at least the second "John Wayne" serial killer. Thomson was captured in front of the Victorville "Cask and Cleaver" no less : Thomson's two carjacking attempts foiled: "VICTORVILLE A suspected serial killer from Washington state was apprehended Monday by two Daily Press pressmen after the accused killer failed to carjack one woman and then made a second carjacking attempt in a parking lot next to the newspaper's office."
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Wasting Time
Article about Kent residents being required to sign up for trash service fails to mention that trash pick up is weekly.
King County Journal : "For the past 10 years, Johnson has used his kitchen compactor to bundle up and bag his trash. Around the first or second day each month, he loads three or four garbage cans into his pickup and hauls them to the King County solid waste transfer station in Algona, just south of Auburn, and pays about $16 to dump the load.
According to the letter from the city, Johnson will be billed $14.37 monthly for a standard 32-gallon can or $20.52 for a 64-gallon can provided by Allied Waste. Collection of yard wastes would add nearly $9 monthly.
Johnson worries that setting out an extra can or bag every now and then will ring up extra collection fees.
'It's the principle of the thing,' said Johnson, a retired Alaska oil fields worker, who said he doesn't see why he should be forced to pay for a service he doesn't really need."
King County Journal : "For the past 10 years, Johnson has used his kitchen compactor to bundle up and bag his trash. Around the first or second day each month, he loads three or four garbage cans into his pickup and hauls them to the King County solid waste transfer station in Algona, just south of Auburn, and pays about $16 to dump the load.
According to the letter from the city, Johnson will be billed $14.37 monthly for a standard 32-gallon can or $20.52 for a 64-gallon can provided by Allied Waste. Collection of yard wastes would add nearly $9 monthly.
Johnson worries that setting out an extra can or bag every now and then will ring up extra collection fees.
'It's the principle of the thing,' said Johnson, a retired Alaska oil fields worker, who said he doesn't see why he should be forced to pay for a service he doesn't really need."
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