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Unexpected Customer Service

Apartment hunting is a big deal. The rental industry knows this and tries to hire the people with the best skills to put them in front of people, but sometimes it falls apart.
Megan and I went apartment hunting this weekend and we encountered the full spectrum of customer service people.

Happy we were there
Annoyed we were [...]

Weekend In Review

Megan’s Birthday
It was a great weekend in general.  Megan’s birthday party was last night with a large group of friends to celebrate the start of her 30th year (20-10th I mean).
The entire menu was vegetarian since the hostess and Megan’s cousin are vegetarians. That is just fine with me since everything was absolutely delicious.  The [...]

Website Address Resolution Problems

Updates at the bottom (current count: 3)

Update 1
Update 2
Update 3

I’ve been having issues with my web browsing. I’ve seen twitter redirect to a random/dead blogspot page, Invalid URL errors, Google 404’s (and its not trending on twitter), facebook redirect to myspace (odd), and a few times I’ve seen my this site and youtube redirected to [...]

My Thoughts On The iPad

I was excited for today. I nearly took the day off so that I could get into the excitement around what was expected to be the iSlate or iTablet but instead was shown the iPad.
Here’s what I like about it:

The form factor is good. It’s light and thin.
It seems to be a pretty powerful ‘near-mobile’ [...]

McDonald’s Ripoff

I stayed at Megan’s last night so I didn’t get to eat my normal bowl of cereal for breakfast. I ended up stopping at McDonald’s on the way to work figuring that I could get in on the new Dollar Breakfast Menu. Sounds like a great deal since I knew that one of my favorite [...]