Category: Geek

Battlestar!

She works! I finally got an AT&T rep who cared last night and she walked me through the 5-minute process to get my phone working. Now I am enjoying my iPhone. It’s quite nice. I especially like how “aggressive” it is about finding wireless networks. I was at the Band of Horses show last night [...]

It’s Tuesday afternoon and still no iPhone love. My other (old) cell phone doesn’t work either, as AT&T has de-activated the SIM in it, so I have had no phone service whatsoever for days now. I called AT&T again last night. Their official response (paraphrased): go pound sand. Sigh. If you’re trying to call me, [...]

Short story: don’t try to call me; neither of my phones work. Thanks AT&T. That totally rocks. I just got off the phone with AT&T customer support. Again. This time I was bluntly told that it could take “24 to 48 hours.” “Really?” I asked. “I thought I read in the news that you guys [...]

Short story: AT&T customer service instructs me to “take the phone apart”; still not activated. I knew activating my iPhone was going to be a bitch because a) I already have Cingular/AT&T service; b) I have had said service for a long time without changing anything and; c) I have a corporate discount from that [...]

Yeah, yeah, I know. It’s shameful. Seasoned Web developer-for-a-living like me should have automatically switched to FireFox sometime in the 14th century or so. That is to say, yeah, I’m late here. But the problem has been my multiplicity of Macintoshes. I regularly use three Macs: my MacBook Pro (work/primary), my dual G5 (fun/image processing) [...]

I don’t usually mention when I’m doing something to enhance my geekery or otherwise pump my work fu, but I will mention that I am attending Web Visions today and tomorrow here in PDX at the Convention Center. In case you were curious.

For those of you who access this site via lyza.com, or who email me, note that I’m moving lyza.com in the next few days. I hope that this won’t actually cause any noticeable effect, but if you are having trouble emailing me, please use my work address. I’ll leave it as an exercise to the [...]

For some reason, OSX’s icon for C Shell scripts (.csh files) is a bit whimsical. Ooooh, SHAPES.

I’m downright frustrated with the apparent inability to actually refresh feeds in Google Reader. For example, I’ll post a review on LibraryThing, then go to Google Reader to look at the RSS feed from it, and no amount of “refreshing” will cause the new items to show up. David has also reported this in respect [...]