this on the Discovery Channel website.
this on my blog a year and a half ago.
I cry foul!
Now, if only I actually believed that someone from the discovery channel read my blog and decided to plagerise me. That would be damn flattering. oh, and they have pictures.
That was actually my very firstest blog post *ever*, kind-of scary because my blogging from back then sucks. It's virtually painful to read it, which is doubly annoying because it's a kick-ass idea.
Once I finally got around to opening up my feed reader today, I saw this article popping up it's little head everywhere.
Thomas Hawk's experience with PriceRitePhoto. Very interesting read.
I actually did buisness with a similar company back in January. USA Photo Nation offered to sell me a new Nikon D70 with a 18-70mm Lens for 799, considering that the camera retailed for 1400-1500$ at the time, I like most others who have been in this situation, should have been more concered. The day after i placed the order with USA Photo Nation, I got a call from their sales department, trying to sell me lots of extras that I neither wanted nor needed. Such as the charger and a battery. (because it doesn't come with a battery or a charger :P). I refused all offers including the extended warranty crap. About a week later I recieved my new camera and just as I expected it came with the battery, and the charger (oh yeah, lens/body caps too). A few days later, checking my online American Express statement, I was charged 1400$ dollars for the camera. I immeditally called Amex and disputed the charge. A few weeks later Amex mailed me a copy of an invoice and a letter claiming that I had agreed to all sorts of extras (warranty, battery et al) to the tune of many hundreds of dollars. They also claimed to have an audio recording of me agreeing to the extra charges. In the end, Amex requested they produce the recording and they simply let it lapse (american express's the customer is right policy meant that once the case expired I win by default).
So, in the end I actually got my nice new camera, for cheap. Moral of the story: use American Express.
Guess I scammed the scammers, chalk one up for the good guys.
I was at the Springsteen concert at the Continental Airlines Arena on the 16th and the 17th.
He opened up the concert with a bit of an apology promising not to curse out the audience again after his last appearance at the Continental Airlines Arena on May 19th which I was also at (no, i'm not obsessed):
In what proved to be the main story last night, a bank of speakers on the upper left column (stage right) blew out very early-on and many in the low 200 sections were left without sound. One fan said, "It felt like you were watching the show from outside." What happened next was pretty ugly as disgruntled fans called out with shouts and chants of "We can't hear you!"…which Springsteen misunderstood for disrespectful idiots who might as well have been crying out for "Rosalita." Bruce pulled out a couple STFUs, and told the screamers pointedly that if they had a problem their "money's at the door." (No word yet on if that's going to hold up!) One attendee reported that "it was like a Jerry Springer show broke out" in those sections. Apparently, all equipment worked just fine at soundcheck when Springsteen tested out "Local Hero," but that song, and the good sound that accompanied it, were not present during the first third of the show. Somewhere around seven songs into the set, the problem was identified, fixed, and Springsteen was informed of the reason for the ruckus. Softening the edges and calming some nerves, Springsteen joked about his family causing the disturbance and called the show "Attack of the Relatives!" During his intro to "The Wish," Bruce offered this: "It's kinda boring without the shouting." Hey, some reviewers have felt that way about the whole tour! Maybe the five-song encore, with both "Ramrod" and "I'm on Fire," was his way of saying, "All's well that ends well."
And from tonight's concert
He didn't let the return to the Meadowlands pass without a mention of his previous visit back on 5/19: "Last time I was here, I cursed out a whole section that was just trying to tell me about an equipment problem. And all I have to say is… don't fuck with me, or I'll do it again."
Fortunately I was not in the affected sections during this concert. For the november 16th and 17th shows I had great seats, sections 101 and 104 at the bottom, very happy about this
The setlist for the 17th
The second night, just as good, including a duet with Patti Scialfa
Overall, a very memorable two nights
both descriptions and setlists stolen from backstreets.com
I really like NetNewsWire, when someone like scoble deletes a post, NetNewsWire saves it so I can still see it and now you can too.
I can see why scoble deleted the post, it's pretty stupid of him. Were you drunk or what?
Sometimes I screw up. My readers let me know within minutes. I pulled a post. I'm sorry.
Looks like my writings are getting my readers to drink. Hmmm. I wish I had an excuse of being under the influence.
Google employees push sites that only work with one browser
Ahh, let me get this right. Google is pushing a single-browser solution. And their employees are advocating putting code on your site that'll turn off Internet Explorer.
I wonder what the reaction from the blogosphere would be if Microsoft tried such a strategy against Firefox?
At least now you know why I said Google would be nuts to do its own browser.
By the way, who has the most standards-based search engine? Hint: it's not Google. Do a "view source" on MSN and Google and you'll see the answer.
Oh, and who has a cookie that lasts until 2038? Ahh, yes, even Google knows the answer to this one!
You can learn that and lots of other things about Google on the Google Watch site.
"I'm in total disbelief. I think this might be illegal," said state Rep. John Graham Altman, R-Charleston.
…
"We need to deport the people who made this decision to Guantanamo Bay. I may very well introduce a bill to do just that," he said
What did these people do? Did they blow up a building, plan to blow up a building? did they steal some gum from the WaWa?
Nope, the illustrious John Graham Altman is talking about TV Executives who choose to move a sporting event to pay-per-view (well, with all the lesbian sex in the bathroom it just wasn't appropriate for the kiddies).
Well, he was right about one thing, I'm in total disbelief.
link
Open source iPod, unfortunately most of the critisims are correct.
Such as why does a journaling file system still needs to do fsck?
But remember, everything else on that list (esp "Unique Errors") is by design. Except Stallman, he's a bug, someone squash him.
Ok, I concede, While West Wing was basically all about Clinton, Commander in Chief is really all about poking fun at Bush.
Tonight, the President is reading a book to a group of children at a diaster site when her chief of staff learns of an impending diaster with an oil tanker. He tells to her, and *GASP*, SHE GETS UP AND LEAVES THE CHILDREN ALL ALONE!!!! Those children are going to be scarred for life.
Watch Bush freefall
"We can't send mail farther than 500 miles from here," he repeated. "A little bit more, actually. Call it 520 miles. But no farther."
"Um… Email really doesn't work that way…
I was browsing around the Oceanic Air site and found something interesting.
Let's start from the top.
#sally {z-index:1; visibility: visible; position: absolute; top: 192px; left: 512px; width: 256px; height: 362px;} #robert {z-index:4; visibility: hidden; position: absolute; top: 392px; left: 512px; width: 256px; height: 362px;}
<div id="sally"> <p>If anyone should find this message, please get word I'm alive and stranded on an island somewhere in the South Pacific. Please send help soon. Things are bad. And they're getting worse...</p> <p><i>Sally</i></p> [...] </div> <div id="robert"> [...] <p>I survived a horrific plane crash and am stranded on an island somewhere Northeast of Australia and Southwest of Hawaii. In the event that I am never found, please forward word of my fate to my parents.</p> [...] </div>
All the links on oceanic-air.com seem to link to a page called /404.html
–14:26:10– http://www.oceanic-air.com/404.htm
Resolving www.oceanic-air.com… done.
Connecting to www.oceanic-air.com[199.181.134.172]:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 10,904 [text/html]
Look at that, serving a 404 page with a 200 response, chalk one up for complete ignorance of web standards.
Oh, and look at this little tidbit hidden in a comment on top of the seating chart page:
I would like to inform my financial institutions that I will be late making my September mortgage payment as I am STRANDED ON A FRIGGIN' ISLAND IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE!
Please have the Government send a search team immediately. OR don't. Shouldn't all the taxes I pay cover an expense like that?
sounds like someone is having a little fun with us.
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