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Easy as … hell?

Today I discovered the joy of Dell customer support for printers. Never again. No, I will not go through a standard 20 minute questionnaire when your own frikkin’ engineer who was here knows what the problem was but he couldn’t get it registered because no one at Dell was answering the phone.
Apparently their printer support …

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Het postkantoor zuigt

(the dutch post office sucks).
No International Money Orders.
No International Reply Coupons.
At any post office in the Netherlands.
“But sir, we’re so advanced, nobody uses that old crap anymore.” Ehm, yes butthead, the rest of the world does, hence the ‘international’. Seriously, the post office has gone to shit ever since it got privatized.

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Signal vs noise

How do you find interesting sites in a web where 99.9% is tripe from newbies or spammers.
I recently joined a blogger network. Blogs really are the Geocities of today for anyone familiar with how things worked a dozen years ago. The problem is blogspam, the amount of people that blog for money, who think they …

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OS X annoyances

Meh, I’ve had this thing in draft for months, and I just can’t be bothered to clean it up or finish it, so here it is in its unedited state, things that have annoyed me about Os X thusfar:

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Things you should avoid blogging about

That title popped up in my newsfeed… again… it annoyed me.
I know it’s fashionable at the moment to come up with lists of plugins you need to get good seo, lists of popular topics for blogs, lists of things you ‘must’ do to get people to leave comments, but god it’s boring me to death.
After …

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Apple support vs. Dell support

Here’s one for the mac fanboys who are still wondering why Apple is lagging in the businesses.
Last thursday my MacBook croaked with a dead DVD burner after only a month. In addition to that I also had the lovely case discolouration problem. So first I had to call Apple. They registered the call and told …

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How to be an A-list blogger

A few… ehm… pointers.

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Bye bye Avalanche

Well, here goes… I’m posting this here seeing as I doubt this would last 5 minutes if I’d post it at AO.
I finally, formally, quit as admin at Avalanche Online, and for the following reasons:
- conflict in management. Personally I think allowing spammers to stay just so the board appears alive is a perfect way …

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