Outlook gives me a reminder. Good. I click dismiss. Outlook transforms into LookOut and leaves a zero reminder hanging out. Eventually the performance degrades to unacceptable. Reboot. Argh!
XPfails – luggable – Outlook Lookout fails – Reminder left hanging
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
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Four Steps To Restoring the Culture – And Avoiding Catastrophe
Tuesday, January 9, 2007Welfare, Family, Money, and Education! He’s hit my top 3 and thrown in “family” for good measure. I agree and he writes it up much better than I ever could.
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RANT: TV moves RU game time
Saturday, January 6, 2007Not having a very good day today. It appears that RU moves the game time for TV. We have tickets that say 2PM. It’s being played at noon. That really aggravates me!
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TECHNOLOGY: TechCrunch’s favorite 13
Wednesday, January 3, 2007http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/02/2007-web-20-companies-i-couldnt-live-without/
Free 411
http://free411.com/
Cheap no-DRM music
http://amiestreet.com/welcome
Local maps
http://city.ask.com/city
Anohter bookmark sharing site
http://bluedot.us/
Social News Site
http://www.digg.com/
Pictures
http://www.flickr.com/
A “social” web browser
http://www.flock.com/
GMail
NetNewsWire (30$)
A personalized webpage
http://www.netvibes.com/
A music meme
http://www.pandora.com/
Skype
A tech meme
http://www.techmeme.com/
WordPress
YouTube
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TECHNOLOGY: New AOL IM client has “interesting features”
Wednesday, January 3, 2007Took a required upgrade to AOL IM today. The folks at work use it a lot, otherwise I’d have tossed it.
Interesting it comes with an almost mandatory integration with Plaxo. But, it doesn’t presuppose that you might already be a plaxo user. Argh!
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TECHNOLOGY: Not everything that is ordered gets delivered. Even if you pay for it!
Tuesday, January 2, 2007From: Mandriva Store [mailto:noreturn+store@mandriva.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 2:23 PM
To: reinkefj
Subject: Mandriva Flash information
(Version francaise plus bas)
Hi,
You recently bought a Mandriva Flash and perhaps you have not been delivered yet. First of all we would like to thank you for your order but also to apologize for the inconvenience if you have not received your product.
The Mandriva Flash has been launched on december the 7th and became immediatly a big success, thus our delivery platform ran out of stock.
New Mandriva Flash keys will be delivered by the first week of january and the orders will be processed in the meantime.
Finaly, if you want to purchase another Mandriva Flash do not forget you have only a few days more to get benefit from the special introductory price at 59 euros / USD 69 on http://store.mandriva.com
Thank you for your interest in our products and sorry again for this delay.
The Mandriva online team.
http://www.mandriva.com/en/company/contact/customercare
Arghhh!
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XPfails – luggable – OUTLOOK
Tuesday, January 2, 2007Outlook, aka LookOut, takes an error in a reminder. It hangs up. Eventually performance goes to zero. And MSWORD locks up. Arghhh! Reboot required. Lost time ~30 minutes to close up and restart. And, about 2 hours running at reduced throughput. Arghh!
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XPfails – luggable – WSOD is back
Sunday, December 31, 2006I was using NEO OBJECTS EIGHT to edit my web site for simplyaligned doe to emerge next month. The White Screen Of Death occurred with a short wait rebooted. Argh! I don’t now what I lost. I suspect I lost all the changes I had made, but not saved, to the new site.
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XPfails – luggable – PAYTRUST website won’t authenticate
Friday, December 29, 2006I actually had to call their support and undergo a lot of pain “authenticating”. Will someone please tell me how knowing my details authenticates me? Now, if they said “we’ll call you back”, then I might believe it. Asking me my address and phone number and email address doesn’t “authenticate” squat.
And, don’t tell me you are “doing it for my protection”! That’s Barbara Striesand. They’re doing it for their protection.
No explanation of why it worked yesterday but not today. No explanation of why it didn’t work today. They want me to use IE (I don’t!) Telling me that their site is not “optimized” for Firefox or Opera.
PFooey.
And, that they were voted the best bill payment service. By who, their employees.
The only reason, I put up with this … (PayMyBills was acquired by the competitor Paytrust after I selected PMB over PayT. Subsequently acquired by Quicken.) … is that they are the only service that will receive a paper bill, scan it, and email me. And, they keep pushing ebilling!
Their idea of ebilling is that I do all the work and setup an online account with a biller. Then turn over all that authentication information to them so that they can then go pretend that they are me. I don’t think so!
Any way, if there was a competitor, I’d sure consider it.
Arghh!
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TECHNOLOGY: ROBOFORM continues to prove its worth
Wednesday, December 27, 2006I have complicated web form that I fill out often. So today, (DUH what took so long), I said “Hmm, wonder if roboform can do this. Even in part would be helpful.” Bingo! I created an extra identity. And, tested it. Seems to work right the first time. Sigh, what was I thinking all along?
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