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How I got cheated on eBay

Welcome! It looks like this is the first time you’re visiting my site. You may want to follow my posts by adding my RSS feed to your reader. Or, if you’re not sure about RSS, you can subscribe via email. Last week, I placed bids for an unlocked Sony Ericsson K810i mobile phone on eBay. [...]

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Stranded in Frankfurt thanks to United Airlines

Ligia and I were supposed to arrive in the United States yesterday. Instead, we were stuck in Frankfurt am Main for the night. We were on the third leg of our return trip to the United States, and everything was going well. We had left Cluj yesterday morning on a Lufthansa flight to Münich, where [...]

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Pepco fails to fix store’s electrical panel after 6 months

Updated 5/27/2008: It has now been a month since I wrote this post, and Pepco still HAS NOT fixed the electrical panel. This makes it 7 months, which is simply unacceptable. I am going to write to Chris Van Hollen, our Congressman, to see if he’d like to get involved in the matter.
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FedEx forgets how to deliver packages

FedEx has apparently forgotten how to deliver packages, because two recent packages I sent out came back to me, marked “3 att”, which I suppose means three delivery attempts were made. The punchline is they never made it out of my home state. What’s worse, they’re marked as “Delivered” on the FedEx website. See below. [...]

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Stick a fork in Zooomr, they’re done

It looks like the Zooomr we knew is pretty much done for. A few months ago, I wrote that I was taking a break from Zooomr. The more I stayed away, the more clearly I could think about it, and the more I realized what a colossal waste of my time it was to get [...]

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The Pepsi ringtone promo is a sham

Have you seen the Pepsi bottles with the orange caps lately? They say 1 in 3 people are supposed to get a ringtone. The invite you to visit PepsiSmash.com and enter the code on the bottom of the cap on the site in order to see what you’ve won. But wait, here’s where it gets [...]

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Caveat Emptor: Global Internet Solutions (GISol)

This is one web hosting company you should not touch, not even with a 10-foot pole!
I signed up with them back in January of 2006, because I was attracted by their many features and low price. They were offering over 35GB of space, and unlimited bandwidth. While that last hook should have had me turning [...]

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Caveat emptor: Davison Inventegration will just take your money

I’d forgotten about my bad experience with these people until they sent me some spam a couple of weeks ago. To return the favor, I’m going to tell you what I know of them, and believe me, it’s not pretty…
These days, they’ve got a new domain (davisongetresults.com) which acts as a forward to their old [...]

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Ma Bell would also like to make NSA tap evidence disappear

This is interesting. The EFF (Electronic Frontiers Foundation) discovered that AT&T has been sharing wholesale internet traffic information with the NSA, and filed a brief, under seal, to get documents out into the open, so people could see what’s going on. Well, the Justice Department has now ruffled its feathers at the request, and AT&T [...]

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For a real lesson in sleazy politics…

Lest we forget the past, read up on Joseph McCarthy, and shudder… Here is the link.

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Designed by Braggadocio

I do web design and development consulting in my free time. I always strive for quality and originality in my designs. It never fails to amaze me how people always fall for cheap, imitative designs, simply because they’re flashier.
These “web designers” promise more traffic, more exposure, better looks, more and better everything, and of course [...]

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