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What can brown do for you?
I was tracking a package from REI recently and was amused by these tracking results. The package had been delivered (to the wrong town) a year and a half before I ordered it. That’s pretty fast! Check...
View ArticleLong hold times at Authorize.net
Over the past two days, I’ve had the misfortune of gathering a good sample of Authorize.net’s support hold time. (fyi, they are an internet credit card processing gateway) Four calls – each with hold...
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Shoo-in for a pulitzer
Next year’s pulitzer prize has to go to Marianne Lavelle of US News and World Report for this article titled “Is a penny a gallon worth a detour?” and subtitled “Cutting back on driving rather than...
View ArticleNot so much java for local web startups
There’s a local group of entrepreneurs and developers that meets every couple of months in Cambridge. I was curious about this month’s presenters’ choices of development platform, so I took at look at...
View ArticleMy personal info on lost IBM tapes
I received a letter today marked “Urgent message from IBM. Please open immediately”. What’s this I thought? It turns out my information relating to my IBM employment was on the tapes lost back in...
View ArticleI’m big (in China)
I had my first patent granted recently, in China of all places. I’ve put up a two page PDF here. Page one is the English abstract, page two is the front page of the patent in Chinese. Now I know what...
View ArticleHacked!
I’m really lax about updating my wordpress install. Turns out I got burned this time, and inadvertently hosted a bunch of links to various flavors of porn site. I was on an ancient (and security hole...
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Olympic Torch Relay
This morning I was reading about protests during the Olympic torch relay in Paris forcing the torch’s security team to extinguish the flame. That got me to thinking: does anything say “committed to...
View ArticleInterviews on Trivia
I’ve started interviewing again now that I should be finished with my Master’s degree in a month or so. I’m reminded again of the wide range of interview styles people use. My least favorite is the...
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A concoction most foul
The building I work in threw a building BBQ last week. There were hot dogs that were actually pretty tasty, there were tough hamburgers that made me think of beef recalls, and there was Tropicana...
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