Archives » August, 2007

A Free Upgrade Wouldn’t Be Worth It

When you read quotes like this:
I’ve been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using it as their primary operating system — it simply has no redeeming merits to overcome the compatibility headaches it causes. Whenever anyone asks, my advice is to stay [...]

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AT&Ted Off

So, in the continuing saga or me against AT&T I went into their store recently (as in Friday evening) and I asked an employee, “I have a weak reception area that I live in, do you know which phone you carry has the best antenna for improved reception?”  The perfect answer was given to me, [...]

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Yet Another Post in Which Randy Cries Like a Baby

Today I got a phone call from AT&T.  Well, it was from a computer at AT&T.  Or at least I think it was.  It could be the nation wire tapping program just doing a routine monitoring of my line pretending to be AT&T.  But assuming its AT&T a recording, yes a recording, told me to [...]

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With Walls Like This, Who Needs a Museum?

I happen to have had a very forgiving set of parents.  They put up with my playing loud music (live loud music, not just recorded loud music) and they would also put up with my thundering down the stairs when I descended from the second story of the house.  As a teenager very few things [...]

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Thankful Thursday: Stories from Sunnyvale

I just posted a story about Sunnyvale, California on my finances blog and it reminded me of some other things that had to do with Sunnyvale.  I’m grateful for the good home my parents raised me in.  It was warm, safe and always big enough for me to mess up.  Here are two short stories [...]

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