Category: Consumer
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Twitter, Companies, and your Complaints
The rise of social media has been interesting to say the least. Many on twitter have found it to give them a type of power as they can voice their complaints directly to a company that has wronged them. Everything from bad customer service, bad prices, minor inconvenience, or even perceived slights that likely never…
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A Small Ask of @JerseyMikes For the Greater Good
A proposal for Jersey Mike’s to cut as many as 31 billion calories from consumer diets a year.
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A Samsung Galaxy 8, Phantom Notifications, and @Tmobile’s Dreadful Support
This is a blog of two topics. The first, a brief technical explanation of a problem with my Samsung phone after an upgrade to Android 8.0 (Oreo) pushed by T-Mobile, the subsequent debugging, and hopefully help for anyone else experiencing the issue. The second, my horrible experience with T-Mobile Twitter-based tech support. On April 2,…
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Amiigo Activity Tracker Review
[Note, while going through old blog notes and drafts, I left a lot unfinished for way too long. This is an example of one, now published on 2026-03-15. However, since I wrote enough to be apparent it was complete enough, I have backdated to the day I wrote it. I am leaving it basically untouched…
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Improving Foursquare
FourSquare is a social media application, allowing you to use GPS enabled phones to ‘check in’ to venues, earn badges, etc. As with most social media platforms, 4sq lacks several features and would benefit from additional work. Some of my ideas, after using the site for a month. “Things done” is a poor choice of…
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So far, yet so short…
two days into my smart phone experience, i am simultaneously amazed and disgusted by the state of technology surrounding these devices and ‘cloud’ applications. back in the day, i had a ‘hacker’ mindset. i found flaws in systems that let me circumvent security or gain privileges not intended for users (or remote people not intended…
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Hey asshole business (Chase)
Ranting on behalf of a friend. We were out grabbing vegetables for the guinea pigs, a quick dinner and some wine for her. Trying to purchase wine, her debit card was declined. Figuring it was a fluke and the bad mojo of our local Wine Nazi rubbing off, she tried again at Wahoo’s and it…
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Pet Stores Should Be Subject to Stricter Laws
in the world of pets, there is obviously a wide variety of animals. if i were to break it down into two major types off hand, it would be ‘most pets’ and ‘exotic pets’. some regular pets exhibit many of the same mannerisms as exotics, and they can even share some food, treats, litter and…