A blog about things that interest me.
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Apple Watch Series 2 and Swimming
I was waiting for this morning before I posted my review of the new Swim features of the Apple watch Series 2. I’ve been a bit under the weather the last few days, so there was a chance I would not go for my Sunday morning swim… but I felt up to it this morning.…
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Apple’s Wednesday Announcement – Three “One More Things”
One of the things I look forward to each summer is upgrading my iOS devices to each of the developer beta drops. It is always an exciting time, usually with lots of bugs and problems. For some reason this summer was different. The upgrades were simple, they didn’t cause a lofty of problems, and not…
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Tivo and DRM
I’ve been loving my TIVO, we can watch / record upto 6 shows at one time. Very cool… However, recent changes in the system have really made me frustrated.. and I am betting it is TIVO cowtowing to the media industry. I used to be able to sit in my computer room and do some…
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Engineers and Developers save the day!
OK, a quick update on yesterday’s blog post, on how individual people work hard at fixing the problems of corporate policy. Yesterday the service tech came by anyway, left his business card, found and fixed the problem for the hum..asked that I double check this morning, and if it was still a problem he’d come…
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The death of Customer Service
In the last month, I’ve had the “opportunity” to have to use customer service from a couple of companies. Both companies have websites and call centers, with the goal of improving customer service. To say that they actually provide customer service is another thing. The first is a major appliance manufacturer. About 14 months ago…