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Written on Aug 14, 2008 // Rants
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 is the worst. My account manager, who I called in a very pissed off mood saying she either takes care of the problem or that’s the last time I buy anything there, tried to reassure me that their server and ‘normal’ support wasn’t that bad. But hey, come on, clean your own shit.
So after escalating the matter I ended up being called by an english speaking lady with an Indian name who didn’t give a shit either but was in charge of printer support, who then told me she’d spend me the parts of what they thought was wrong with the thing, but I didn’t get it fixed with that I’d have to go through the 20 minute questionnaire next time.
Yeah… sure.
No more Dell for me. So… what’s HP business tech support like?
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Written on May 14, 2008 // Rants
(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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Written on Sep 05, 2007 // Rants, Web
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 can earn a quick buck by copypasta-ing stuff from all over the web and posting it as original ‘content’. Even on BlogCatalog this much is obvious, and the amount of noise drowns out the signal, because who really has the time and energy to look for a gem in a pile of, well… dung. An invite only network sounds nice, just for like minded people who do their thing and enjoy the old spirit of the web. That could be a way to build a stronger signal.
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Written on Feb 04, 2007 // Apple, Rants
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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Written on Dec 20, 2006 // Rants
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 everything else has been monetized they’re now trying to kill the last bastille of freedom of speech by saying what we should or shouldn’t blog about.
Well… blow me. The only thing I’d recommend you don’t blog about is a list of things you should avoid blogging about. It’s pointless.
I absolutely love reading random blogs, and the way they give you a good idea of who the person behind the writing is. The best way to blog in my opinion is to just do it. Write about whatever pops into your mind, whatever happened to you, or whatever your interests are. It’s your blog, do your thing.
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