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Since all my bills are automatically paid by an electronic clearinghouse every month, I was surprised to get a disconnection notice from AT&T — to which, of course, I took a significant amount of umbrage.
There’s a lot of stuff running by default in Windows Vista that you probably don’t need. Disabling them may speed up your sluggish computer.
I switched to Verizon Wireless about a year ago and brought over the rest of the family from AT&T Cingular just days before this past Christmas. I have had no problems with coverage anywhere in the Bay Area until I began working at a company in Palo Alto on the border to Los Altos.
Often the [...]
Who in their right minds wants Microsoft full access to whatever information they choose to send to themselves when you accidentally click on the box that pops up wanting you to report an application error or system crash to Microsoft? Not me! I personally find screaming an obscenity at the offending application much more therapeutic [...]
I’m in a foul mood today:
it’s raining.
Petco couldn’t find my PetPals account number, no matter if I tried looking it up by phone number or last name.
I forgot my key to the post office box at home, so I couldn’t get my mail.
Aurora Loan Services has sent me to collections AGAIN, despite the fact that [...]
Some áššhølë took over my computer last night.
To be more specific, some áššhølë wrote some software and published it on the object.passthison.com subdomain which then took over my computer. While Googling for some information for some fellow notaries public, I ran across a notary website that displayed the ad that the bûtthëád created. Despite the [...]
First of all, I take spam very seriously. Since I get about 40-50 spam emails per day, I’ve established a few procedures I use on a daily basis that help reduce the amount I am personally exposed to:
Reduce the spam:
Trust no one. If I’m on a website that asks for my email address in order [...]
Once ItsYourDomain received my letter than I sent to ICANN, a flurry of emails went back and forth, unfortunately solving nothing.
I’ve renamed the month of December to “Screw-You Month” because of all the people and companies that have tried to screw me over the past few weeks. This time a domain name registrar has hijacked my domain.
