Zman's Diary - All Comments

re: Network Solutions - why do I hate thee?

zman — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:31:03 GMT

Connie - I am very impressed that you seek out and respond to these complaints. That's a big plus for you. However the auto lock policy offers no security. My friend merely called the number and after waiting on hold, giving you details which matched what we had entered into the account and listening to the upsells you turned off the lock. If the account had been compromised any hacker would have done exactly the same thing as we did to transfer the account. Since this adds no security then it can only be for the reason of the upsell.

re: Network Solutions - why do I hate thee?

Connie Bensen — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:36:34 GMT

Hi, this is Connie at Network Solutions. We sure don’t want to lose your friend’s business, but all the same, apologize for the difficulties you’ve experienced to date with the transfer. (Some of the security mechanisms that are in place to protect our customers’ accounts can be a hurdle at times.) Please contact me at smedia [at] networksolutions [dot] com and my team can get this squared away for you.

re: TRI-ing it again [groan]

TisJ — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:22:19 GMT

I think the bike was 13.49 miles... so that makes a bit more sense... you did great! You had a fantastic swim, good bike and a great run... AND it was 95 degrees or so!!! :)

re: Twitter is NOT........

Ryu — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:58:15 GMT

Do these Twitter people just have that much time on their hands?? Twitter is the dumbest web idea I've ever seen (which probably means it will IPO to $1 billion next year).

re: I'm officially a Northwesterner

Gwen — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:46:31 GMT

I've only lived here a bit over 10 years, but those Pemco ads just tickle me - they're so accurate! (Minus a few details, I'm the Marymoor Off-Leash Dog Lady.)

re: Twitter is NOT........

Paul Evans — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:48:31 GMT

Ooops, appoligies if you are referring to my feed :0)

re: Twitter is NOT........

kewlniss — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:59:25 GMT

Heh heh .. after reading this (which was after I just updated twitter) ... I had to check to see if you were still following me :) As you know, this is my 3rd try as well. I follow two people that update _very_ often ... most everyone else is hit or miss ... I'm trying to be somewhere in the middle ... I totally agree with your blog post.

Funny thing is I wouldn't have seen this post if it wasn't for a twitter message ... go figure ... (how does RSS work again?) ;)

re: Twitter is NOT........

Let's Kill Dave — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:18:39 GMT

Good idea, Zman...I just twittered about what you wrote about Twittering....now I'm gonna write a blog post then twitter about that.

re: Twitter is NOT........

zman — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:44:00 GMT

I am approaching my 3rd Twitter Quit this year... I'm with you Jim that the signal to noise ratio is bad - at least for me. I've removed several of the offenders from my follow list instead for now.

re: Twitter is NOT........

Jim Perry — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:35:03 GMT

Well, you could always just ignore the whole thing. Personally, I don't see the point of it.

re: I'm officially a Northwesterner

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:43:46 GMT

If you had a ponytail, you'd totally be ponytailed software geek.

NW male action figure - for all your running

Obsesive Compulsive Recycler?

Accidental Tech Millionaire?

Sandals and socks guy?

re: Hard Drive 'End of days'

Ryu — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:54:16 GMT

you must be busy, you haven't posted in a while.

re: Where do they put all the bits?

squiffy — Wed, 21 May 2008 05:54:58 GMT

Remember ya fat brummie, size, in your case, is everything! :O)))))

You have obviously become too american, you seem to forget, here in the UK we use something low tech, called a Map!!!!!!

squiffs ;O)

re: A whole new business plan

Mary — Mon, 19 May 2008 22:19:13 GMT

I looked up sellers selling UGG boots. This one was from a different town in MA going by the name of nurimakitiff. She got about 13 positive feedbacks and guess what she is no longer a registered user!!

re: DRM vendors thanks for shutting down...

john A — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:00:22 GMT

Exact same sentiments in regards to DRM. I know why it’s done, and I didn’t really care too much until it bit me. What? You mean I can’t play this music that I bought on this other device. The current implementations of DRM suck! Although I can’t think of a better way of doing it. So in the end I’m just a complainer that ends up burning everything to CD’s anyway.