Good article describing remarkable differences in how people in the medical field view treatment for life-threatening illness: How Doctors Die « Zócalo Public Square It turns out they often don’t make the same decisions that are recommended to patients, and appear…
Category: People
And now, for an existentialist moment…
What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, ‘This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought…
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Cash4Gold pays a penny. Literally.
I hadn’t heard much about this company, and was surprised at the outlandish Superbowl ad’s. Big names, big greed. Didn’t we used to have a Consumer Protection Agency? Cash4Gold Complaints – Former employee exposing the scams of Cash4Gold.
Fear or Love
Whenever I’m making a decision that I feel I am ’emotionally’ involved in, such as answering a question from my (almost 19 y.o.) daughter: “Do you like my new tattoo?” I’ve learned to try and ask myself a question before…
489th Bomber Group
A friend of mine approached me and asked about cleaning up a WWII era photo of his Father (Holtmeier) and other B-24 crew members taken in England in 1944. Unfortunately the photo was missing emulsion (the part of the print…
Posted in People Tagged with: 489th, 6 june 1944, bomber, coastal defenses, crew members, halesworth, normandy invasion, wwii
Text-Link-Ads tech support lacks interest in WordPress
This began as a casual note, a reminder, if you will, to techsupport (at) text-link-ads.com. It escalated to where I wondered just how Text-Link-Ads (a MediaWhiz Holdings, Inc. Company) developed it’s hiring practices… Having signed up I was directed to…
Received an email from site5.com tech support:
I received an email from site5.com’s tech support this morning, titled: Scheduled Maintenance Notification. Fighting back tears of joy and relief, I opened it and noted it warned of IMAP irregularities to be expected due to server upgrades. It contained…
Posted in Computers, People Tagged with: maintenance, network-solutions, site5, site5.com, support, tech-support
Women and blogging
I know some very creative women, one of which even makes a living writing, yet 'blogging' seems such a foreign concept to them. I should note that these friends are all 39-ish *grin* and I do believe that the lack…
Network Solutions (Customer Support tragedies)…
After my site went down (for over 24 hours) I discovered that Network Solutions had done a"Major Upgrade" over the weekend of May 13th. Interesting how a company on the cutting-edge of internet services couldn't manage to somehow communicate this…
Posted in People Tagged with: customer, network-solutions, support, tech-support, tragedies, tragedy
