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{ Monthly Archives } December 2008

The dinosaur suicides.

Quoth Stephen Fry about the new Blackberry Storm: An accelerometer is a device that lets an object know which way up it is. That’s just what the RIM corporation itself seems to need, for it is clear that with the release of this dog they don’t know their tits from their tibias. And his isn’t [...]

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Python3k: Compatibility fail

The blogosphere is rapidly heating up with dismay and sometimes outright anger at the bungling of the Python 3000 release. I walked into the #django IRC channel and I got my head bitten off for asking which version of python I should use for django. (After the channel cooled down some, I was able to [...]

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Philips: Customer Service doghouse.

That was an interesting experience. Frustrated that a giant, recently bought, Philips TV’s remote control is incapable of controlling the philips satellite box next to it, without much help from the user manual, I decided to ring them up. Maybe Seth Godin is slipping a little, but Seth Godin’s simple missive: Make a customer happy [...]

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