I’ve been a little surprised by the lack of customer service I’ve had while on my business trip. Not once have I encountered a server who’s been friendly and chatted with me (or the other people I’m with) about anything. I’ve also encountered an outright lack of service: once when a server refused to give …
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I’ve taken the step of putting the “No Service” sign on my hotel room door. The reason for this is the simple fact that I don’t like having things I’ve put in various places being moved around on me as part of the well intentioned attempts by housekeeping to clean up after me. I’m quite …
I’m typing this from my suite in Palo Alto, California. My business trip, during which I’ll have two weeks of training, started yesterday. The flight was okay, although it took 1.5 hours to get through customs. Apparently, the long line-up was a little unusual – just my luck. Everything’s nice here – but I already …
A little while ago, Mapleview Mall (where Michelle works) started a new Christmas poster campaign. Just yesterday, I noticed that one of the key words on this poster was spelled incorrectly. In short, the poster reads “Christmas momento”. The second word isn’t one that appears in the English language. In proper English, it should be …
Even if Kerry does win the Presidential election (and it’s not looking as if this is all that likely, although I suppose there’s always a chance), the fact that Bush has done so well is just a continued indictment against the intelligence of such a respectively large percentage of the American public. I find it …
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I’m due to travel to California on a business trip next week. However, I no longer have a valid driver’s license, and my passport recently expired. I went to get a new photo ID health card last week but could not do so because I couldn’t prove I lived in Ontario. Although their Web site …
I’m happy to say Michelle and I have worked things out since yesterday and things are peaceful here again. As an aside, Michelle tried to reply to my previous entry and discovered that she wasn’t able to do so. I looked into it and discovered it was because of a spam comment fix I’d put …
When I married Michelle, I knew that she would have a cigarette every once in a while at parties. I didn’t like it all that much, but was still okay with it. Just because it’s not something I would personally do is no reason to judge somebody. But recently, things have been getting worse. As …
I’ve just purchased a new monitor. A 20″ LCD ViewSonic VP201s. This thing is simply amazing. Of course, I’d, a couple days earlier, bought an ATI All-In-Wonder 9800 Pro Radeon video card in preparation for the monitor – for digital output. I hadn’t actually intended on buying the monitor itself quite so soon, but the …
I’ve finally finished with all of my layout changes, not only to my personal site here, but also to the main Inferno Enterprises site. Essentially, this involved getting rid of the left and right navigation panes, and replacing them with a single bottom navigation pane. I also made some changes to the way that text …