David Vincent Gagne says:
you know what’s obnoxious?
ebay
ebay is retardo
they email me when I have LOST an auction
David Vincent Gagne says:
why the #$@* would I want an email like that?
a.friend says:
i don’t even have the energy to talk abt why I hate ebay
they send you might want to bid on ….
David Vincent Gagne says:
why the hell don’t they email me ten minutes BEFORE it’s over if I’m not in the lead?
THAT would be useful
a.friend says:
they should do that
yes
next time I see you I will tell you what happened with us
we were managing an ebay store for a client
we had 54k in products online
David Vincent Gagne says:
or at the very least they should have an “Add to Outlook” link on every item so you can store a reminder in your calendar
a.friend says:
they shut off the store
David Vincent Gagne says:
wow
what were they selling?
a.friend says:
dental supplies
everything was kosher
i will tell you in person
David Vincent Gagne says:
jewish dental supplies?
a.friend says:
i mean, it wasn’t black market
David Vincent Gagne says:
there’s your problem, dude
a.friend says:
we had invoices
David Vincent Gagne says:
NOBODY but NOBODY lets you deal in jewish dental supplies
From the monthly archives:
July 2007
Contextless Content: Episode #23 (Jewish Dental Supplies)
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The Bleeding Edge of Music
A perfect t-shirt for the cool kids in the music industry …
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Blue Cross of California Member Registration
The new member registration form at the Blue Cross of California website has what I consider to be several major bugs.
- A user’s username must contain a number and a letter. Because this is not exactly a ‘net “standard”, they need to do a better job of bringing this to your attention.
- When you submit the form with an error — for example, not including a number in your username — any values selected in drop-down combo boxes are reset to their defaults. This means that you have to re-select your “Group Member Type” and “Secret Question” before submitting the form again. If you don’t re-select these fields, the submission fails.
- When you submit the form with an error — for example, if you didn’t include a number in your username and then re-submitted the form without re-selecting your “Group Member Type” and “Secret Question” — the two password fields (which you entered twice to avoid typos) are cleared as a security precaution. You must enter these values again.
- When you submit the form with an error — for example, if you didn’t include a number in your username and the re-submitted the form without re-selecting your “Group Member Type” and “Secret Question” and then re-submitted the form without re-entering your password twice — you really have a strong desire to punch your monitor.
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Sand Holes!
People naturally worry about splashier threats, such as shark attacks. However, the Marons’ research found there were 16 sand hole or tunnel deaths in the United States from 1990 to 2006 compared with 12 fatal shark attacks for the same period, according to University of Florida statistics.
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Outlook 2007 Is a Memory Hog
When I got my new laptop a few weeks ago I thought it was pretty cool that it came with Office 2007. The nifty new toolbars and embedded wavey swooshes are slick. I don’t really mind that by default Word and Excel assume you want to save files with a .docx or .xlsx extension. (That’s fine with me; makes it easier to remember to not save something as an ‘07 file if I need to share it with others that are still using Office XP or 2003.)
What I cannot handle is the fact that Outlook 2007 is using over 130 MB of RAM. 130 MB?! I wouldn’t mind that much, since apparently it’s supposed to play nicely with Windows and just use whatever RAM is available. But even using as much memory as it is it’s still slow slow slow. And this is even after I disabled iTunes 7.3’s ridiculous Outlook add-in. 130 MB?! Are they crazy?
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