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Customer Service Success: Backcountry.com

Comments   0   Date Arrow  August 14, 2008 at 1:53am   User  by Carlos

It’s rare that I’m ever extraordinarily pleased with customer service, but this afternoon, I was. While there are a few online stores that I frequent and am quite satisfied with such as Amazon (Prime!), Newegg and Apple; very few actually surprise me like Backcountry.com did. As usual with almost everything I ever order, I missed [...]

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Apple iPhone - Cancel or allow?

Comments   1   Date Arrow  July 22, 2008 at 10:28pm   User  by Carlos

Oh, on second thought, don’t allow. I opened the mapping application and clicked the locate button because I actually wanted to be asked if I want to allow this application to know where I am. Yes, thanks. Apple recently mocked Windows Vista’s UAC security implementation, but the quirks of the new location-based are adding a [...]

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New Reddit killed my dog and slashed my tires…

Comments   0   Date Arrow  May 26, 2008 at 5:17pm   User  by Carlos

Reddit users are in a tizzy because of a redesign is, arguably, not as streamlined as before. Also, it seems to fail miserably in Internet Explorer 6 on Windows. The first argument can be remedied by going to Preferences, then checking the “compress link display” option. The second, well - you probably shouldn’t still be [...]

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Rick Astley Never Returns My Calls…

Comments   2   Date Arrow  March 25, 2008 at 10:37pm   User  by Carlos

Seems like a better time than any to update on what is new. Final have come and gone, grade posting had finished (with mixed results, but that’s another story) and the new quarter at the university begins in six short days.
.. Returned home for Spring Break, have been engaging in a whole lot of nothing. [...]

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Are you positive?

Comments   0   Date Arrow  March 12, 2008 at 10:35pm   User  by Carlos

From South Park — S12E01 “Tonsil Trouble”…
Kyle: “What part of being infected with a deadly disease do you find funny?”
Cartman: “I don’t think it’s funny.”
Kyle: “Then stop saying you’re not just sure, you’re HIV-positive.This isn’t funny, AIDS isn’t funny, dying isn’t funny, so shut the **** up.”
Cartman: “Well, excuse me Kyle for trying to keep [...]

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