If you are a Mac user running Microsoft Office 2004, you should avoid using Microsoft Office Update. When I applied the last update it failed. No problem I thought; I’ll just try it again later. Little did I know that it had deleted both Excel and PowerPoint from my machine. I’m done with Microsoft software. [...]
Entries from June 2008
Mac users: Avoid Microsoft Office Update!
June 30th, 2008 · No Comments
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Something worth celebrating?
June 30th, 2008 · No Comments
I grew up in Canada, but I’ve worked and lived in both Canada and the US. I’ve often wondered what it means to be Canadian, though I can’t get a definite answer from anyone. Until today, that is. Today my local paper printed an editorial entitled "Canada: Something worth celebrating", which contained this explanation: To [...]
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The most frustrating thing about customer service.
June 25th, 2008 · No Comments
Seth Godin reminded me today about the most frustrating thing about calling customer service anywhere: It means that you don’t ask me to type in my phone number or account number, but if you insist, then at the very least you make sure that the person who eventually gets my call doesn’t ask me for [...]
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It’s all about tax cuts.
June 19th, 2008 · No Comments
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But everyone else is going.
June 19th, 2008 · No Comments
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No more bottled water for you.
June 19th, 2008 · No Comments
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Sticks and stones.
June 17th, 2008 · No Comments
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Noxious fumes?
June 17th, 2008 · No Comments
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What we say versus what we do.
June 16th, 2008 · No Comments
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Copywrong.
June 13th, 2008 · No Comments
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