Please Check Back Again Soon
I received a bright yellow letter in the mail today from Comcast. It was a “Pending Disconnect Notice”. Comcast is my high-speed Internet provider and technically they have been quite good. The customer service is another story. After looking in Quicken, I found that I had somehow made the payment late. I assume the notice […]
Four Percent
A new study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project revealed that "only" four percent of Americans have used the Internet to buy prescription drugs — and even fewer do so through foreign pharmacies. Given that most of the solicitations to buy drugs online are spam and that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration […]
Go Figure
The "Go Figure" series will report on things that don’t make sense to me. Perhaps a story that is unbelievable or incredible in some way. Demand for a product is down so the company raises prices or a person is cold so they turn down the thermostat. Sometimes there is more to the story than […]
Go Figure – Part 1
Ted Bridis at the Associated Press wrote a story last week called Executives Criticize the Tech Industry. The complaints by the Business Roundtable, a trade group for executives of 150 of America’s largest corporations, reflect frustration over the "expense and hassle of keeping their computer networks safe for consumers". The group says that attacks by […]
Lawyers In Charge
This evening I received a simple email from a person at a major global bank. It read…. “John, can you please forward to me a copy of your presentation that you presented at the IBM Conference in Paris. Much appreciated”. Appended at the end of the email was the following…. “The information contained in this […]
