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What Time Is Your Appointment Again? The Fateful Day For My FIOS Installation

tom — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:14:26 +0000

Continued liveblogging of today's long (loonnggg) delayed installation. No related posts.

Thank You For Waiting: My FIOS Installation Drama Continues

tom — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:06:45 +0000

Despite my earlier rant, I decided to give Verizon another shot at installing the FIOS service. After all, it could save me $60-80 a month -- money that I could certainly use. Following is the tragi-comic rundown of how it went down. How much patience do I really have? We'll see -- they can't get it done today, we'll try again Friday afternoon. No related posts.

Fios, Feh. [updated!]

tom — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:45:42 +0000

If they can't even do a basic thing like showing up, why would I want to entrust all my communications to them? No related posts.

System Upgrade

tom — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:35:18 +0000

матрациRemembering what a horror show it was to upgrade Movable Type at the job — and only for a 4.x to 4.x+1 release — I finally bit the bullet and upgraded from WordPress 2.9.2 to 3.0. After carefully backing up everything, including all my files and the database, pushing the “Upgrade Now” button, holding my [...] No related posts.

It’s Our Anniversary!

tom — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 05:19:18 +0000

Four years of blogging here on tom-mcgee.com. Hope you’ve enjoyed it. In that time, we’ve pushed over 920 posts — roughly two posts for every three days. It’s like a job. Except that it doesn’t pay and I only have to work about five minutes a day. So what have you been reading? The most-visited [...] No related posts.

Mozilla Lays An Egg

tom — Fri, 21 May 2010 18:25:46 +0000

I've been a fan of the Thunderbird email program for a couple of years now. Lightweight, feature-packed, great calendar integration via Sunbird which couples neatly with my Google calendar. When a notice popped up that my copy was going to be the last supported version of 2.x, and I ought to upgrade to 3.04, I [...] Related posts:

Facebook Is Losing It

tom — Tue, 18 May 2010 23:53:50 +0000

It might be time to start reeling it back in. No related posts.

Music Sharing and Music Streaming

tom — Mon, 17 May 2010 16:19:26 +0000

A longish rundown of a bunch of music sharing and download sites around the Internet. Please comment, and feel free to add your own suggestions and sources. This one's all about legal sites; so please, no LimeWire! Related posts:

This Is How The Cylons Started Out

tom — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:28:12 +0000

Playing trade shows for peanuts. No wonder they turned murderous. Related posts:

Powerpoint’s Problems Hit The Mainstream

tom — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:20:45 +0000

Back in 2006 I noted a crookedtimber.org piece about the problems in using PowerPoint for military planning in Iraq. Here we are three and a half years later, and it’s even worse. Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times has an above-the-fold page one story about it. Briefly: “PowerPoint makes us stupid,” Gen. James N. [...] Related posts:

Mozilla Lays An Egg