Reading Time: < 1 minI have Verizon Wireless for my cell phone and I’m reasonably happy with them. However, they seem to be having a very hard time figuring out what their rates are. First was the very amusing story of George Vaccaro, who couldn’t convince Verizon that $0.02 and $0.0002 were actually different numbers. Now we have a […]
Technology
Animoto is awesome!
Reading Time: < 1 minAbout two weeks ago, Animoto launched. It’s billed as “the end of slideshows” and they might be right. Here’s how it works: You upload a bunch of your pictures. You upload a song or choose one of the songs they provide. You tell it to start. From there, it analyzes your pictures, analyzes the music, […]
Follow-up on Carmax and HP
Reading Time: 2 minI thought I’d follow-up on the Carmax and HP/Compaq issues from last week. I called Carmax to see if I could bring the van in before we went out of town again. James wasn’t there, so I left a message for him. I know it was him, because it said something to the effect of […]
The good companies are letting me down.
Reading Time: 2 minI’ve always been a big fan of both CarMax and Compaq/HP. They’re both losing my faith quickly. CarMax has had a tough time fixing our broken power window. I called on a Friday to see about getting it fixed, since we were leaving on vacation early the next Thursday. They said to come in first […]
Target did well with the Wii launch
Reading Time: 2 minI forgot to give Target credit for how well they handled the launch of the Nintendo Wii. I had heard online that our local Target would be getting 51 units and would open at 8am that Sunday. I also knew that Wal-Mart would be opening at Midnight, but the rumor was that they wouldn’t have […]
Sprint doesn’t like old customers – just new ones. So we switched to Verizon.
Reading Time: 2 minMy wife had been with Sprint for about six years, and I’d been with them for the last two. We thought they had great service, fair prices, and we had every intention of staying with them. Our two year contract had expired a couple months ago, so we went to Radio Shack in search of […]
Disney FastPlay isn’t so fast
Reading Time: < 1 minDisney movies are great, but the DVDs (and VHS tapes, for that matter) annoy me a lot. They always have a TON of previews, and they’re hard to skip. Recently, they came out with “FastPlay” to help people get the movie started more quickly. Of course, it doesn’t work. I saw that to point out […]
Wireless is much easier than you think
Reading Time: 3 minNot only is wireless networking easier to set-up than you think, it’s probably cheaper too. In the last few weeks I’ve had a few interesting conversations with people. The first was a fellow youth minister. We were talking about buildings and space, and I mentioned that since they all have laptops, some wireless areas in […]
gmail
Reading Time: < 1 minWith the help of a couple of my CGR friends, Luke and Andrei, I now have a gmail account! I’ll let you know how I like it once I get into it a bit. Send me some mail so I can try it out – mickmel-AT-gmail.com Thanks!
Find RealPlayer in a haystack
Reading Time: < 1 minWhen posting sermons on our church website, I encode them in RealPlayer format. While this works well, I’ve received a number of e-mails lately from church members that don’t think it’s fair to have to pay for software to listen to the sermons. I patiently (and accurately) explain exactly where to click to get the […]