May 2005

Why do tech support staffpeople go crazy? My buddy who works at a hardware/software company sent me this support request from a customer who may be angry. Or not. It’s darned near impossible to tell!

Customer (4815162342) 05/27/2005 02:40 AM
Product = Remote Control
Operating System = Windows XP Pro
Specific Application Problem = No
Problem Description:

I have already desided I will not be buying (product name: MISSPELLED) do to your utter lack of suport and will soon be requesting a refund for (product name) and my remote if I do not get the files I need to manualy deleat to get your stupid preistall chck for (product name: MISSPELLED) to stop telling me that the software is instaled it is not and a reinstall cant posobly hurt any software infact a reinstall is the qwickest6way to fix bugs but you all seam to beleve that your software should bew bugy and stay that way and people should not be abal to fix it with out reformating there whole computer its not worth it this time have a list of all the files that fier flie s install could posobly be looking for to my tomarow by close of bissnes i will have no choice but to demand an imediat refund for all (company name) products I have and file a BBB complant if you are part of the bbb or a FTC complant if you are not you products hove potinchial but are only worth what i paid for them if they work if I am not alow to use them because your software wont let me fix them when they brake becose of some upscorr file that is not in any of the (company name) directories evasn the hidden ones then it should be a free sharware program because those are the only softwares i put up with this crap from so as you have already had 24 hours another 24 is all i will give if you have not provided to fix for your stupidedy and shorsitednes than I will have my money back

Here is a short video (under 4 minutes) showing a man who can apparently summon UFOs on demand.

Very strange, but the reporter seems convinced!

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Thanks to Chef Neace for sharing this with me. This article has ‘adult stuff’ in it, so if you’re not an adult, move on.

Dear Connie,

I know the counselor said we shouldn’t contact each other during our “cooling off” period, but I couldn’t wait anymore. The day you left, I swore I’d never talk to you again. But that was just the wounded little boy in me talking. Still, I never wanted to be the first one to make contact. In my fantasies, it was always you who would come crawling back to me. I guess my pride needed that. But now I see that my pride’s cost me a lot of things. I’m tired of pretending I don’t miss you. I don’t care about looking bad anymore. I don’t care who makes the first move as long as one of us does.
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After running Xaraya for a few years, it was clear that the goals of Xaraya were no longer consistent with my goals in running this site.

I entered an extended process of evaluating new content management software (CMS) packages and decided to run the exceptional WordPress. Thanks to Doug Daulton for forcefully pushing me toward WordPress! Thanks also to the gang in the WordPress chat room who were extremely helpful during my data migration.

Today, May 24 2005, we roll out the new DrewVogel.COM.

There are certainly some areas that are rough (including the display of Categories over there to the left — I don’t like the way the numbers (which tell you how many articles are in that Category) aren’t on the same line as the Category name), but overall, everything is here!

Please let me know if you spot anything that doesn’t work. There are certainly going to be some issues; some articles used some of the features that were unique to the previous software we ran. Until I can do an audit to locate & fix those, there may be dead links, non-working graphics, and other strangeness. Your assistance is requested… Anything that doesn’t look right to you, draw it to my attention so I can fix it.

Thanks, enjoy, and let me know what you think!

Frank Gorshin, the man behind Batman foe The Riddler’s mask, has died at a medical centre in Burbank, California. He was 72. The actor and impressionist was Emmy nominated for his villainous role in the cult Batman TV series from 1966 to 1969. Gorshin earned another Emmy nomination for a guest appearance on another cult show, Star Trek, and won theatrical acclaim in 2002 by portraying late comedian George Burns on Broadway, New York, in bittersweet one-man show Say Goodnight Gracie. Gorshin’s final performance was in an upcoming episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.