rants

I chanced to read an article on Ars about Microsoft hiring a new VP of Corporate Communications (yet again). In this article they quote a blog post by this soon-to-be Microsoft VP, Frank Shaw. This gem stands out: And I've been able to work with Microsoft, a company

I hope to switch to AT&T from T-Mobile when I purchased my iPhone. I wasn't terribly pleased at this, but I had some months to prepare myself. I especially liked T-Mobile because in the several years that I was a customer, I almost never had to

At my present job I have to take two escalators and a set of stairs to get to my desk. I make this trip several times a day. Unless I'm busily typing something into my shiny iPhone, and sometimes even when I am, I always continue walking while

I was minding my own business, working away in my office when I heard something going on outside. Two somethings in fact, which was more than enough cause for me to go investigate. I glanced around for the Glock, and remembered that I had left it in the other room.

As of late last night, the tracking page showed that the package was on the truck for delivery - scheduled for today. And 19.18 this evening, it was delivered ... much to my surprise ... and only a full week late on a two-day delivery time. Never again.

No package, still. I called again and the lady finally got through to someone at the local deliver place but she was put on hold for so long that she finally gave up. Then she transferred me to a "trace agent" who also tried to contact someone at

No delivery and no updates to the FedEx tracking page, so I called again. This time they put me through to some dude in Pittsburg. He calls the local delivery center place and then explains to me that my package is amongst several thousand other packages (maybe a pile of

The dude from Friday never called back and the tracking page didn't change at all over the weekend. I called FedEx again (I'm quite profficient at navigating their phone system, these days). The lady put me on hold while she called the local delivery center people.

Delivery day! ... again. The FedEx tracking page shows nothing new so I called again. This time they transferred me to a guy at the local delivery center place. He explains that he'll locate the package and give me a call back by 5pm to let me know what&