August 2010

BofA Bank of Attitude (You thought I mean Bank of America?)

Bank of America asked me to fill out a survey.  They suck.  And my survey reflects that, but I was very careful to mark the representative who assisted me very highly because they did the best they could with the lame tools made available by Bank of America.  You see, I’ve been paying on time …

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Suggestions for Urban Dictionary: Dramer, Hollywaif

During the course of my day to day life, I sometimes squish words together to create new words that become part of my vocabulary.  Now, I am not saying I have invented these terms, but I did check the UrbanDictionary and these don’t seem to be out there…I think they should! Huzzah! HOLLYWAIF: Girls who …

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Thoughts on the We Noticed Chain Email

So there is this email going around – says it is from Sherry Hackett, but Snopes says otherwise.  You can read the message there too, but I researched the claims in the letter just to give it some thought.  In the end there is a lot more research needed to quantify some of the subjective …

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Burning CDs in Windows XP, No Disc in the Drive Message

OK, I wanted to burn a large file to CD, so I right-clicked the file, chose Send-To and selected my read-write CD drive, where a nice fresh blank CD was waiting. This will usually put an icon in your system tray, but if you are like me and a bit slow to react, the icon will vanish.  …

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