Archive for November, 2009
normalization done poorly at the bank
November 29th, 2009 by Jeanne BoyarskyI went to a bank yesterday to inquire why I was receiving mail at my old address despite having moved a number of months ago. The first thing the representative did was pull up my record to show me that my address was correct in their system. While that’s very nice, the mail has their [...]
Categories: Database, WTFs.
Comments: 6
Time Warner shame on you (the case of the missing vcr timer)
November 20th, 2009 by Jeanne BoyarskyWhat happened Time Warner Cable (in New York City) pushed a software upgrade to the cable box that got rid of the VCR timer feature. This feature has existed since I got cable and allowed you to set the cable box to turn on/change channels automatically so you could record them on your VCR or [...]
Categories: WTFs.
Tags: cable, dvr, vcr-timer
Comments: 21
Web 2.0 Expo – Day 3
November 20th, 2009 by Jeanne BoyarskyToday, I attended the final day of Web 2.0 Expo.See day 1 and 2 comments. Many of the presentation files are available. General comments: I grabbed a picture of one of my tweets on the live tweet stream ( third tweet down on the graphic) Heather Gold referenced the live tweet stream a couple times [...]
Categories: Technology, Web.
Comments: 2
