Good bye TMobile Dash

Hello Verizon xv6700

I'll let you know what I think after I get it hooked up to the Exchange server.

I have been having trouble with my Bose Quite Comfort 2 head phones for a month but with in the last weekend the noise canceling  bug (It randomly makes a high pitch squealing sound.)has became to much for me to cope with so I Paid a visit to my local Bose store.

I noticed that the new ones look a little different, but grudgingly I walked up to the counter and asked to buy another pair. 

Bose Clerk:

Do you have any questions or would you like to try them out.

Me:

No, sigh they I am replacing a broken pair the noise canceling has run amuck.

Bose Clerk:

You might try calling our support.  They may be repairable or give you some credit towards the purchase of a new pair.

Me:

Even though I have had them for like 2 and a half to 3 years?

Bose Clerk:

I think so and if not we'll be here tomorrow.  Here is a business card with the support number.  When you get home have the Head phone in front of you, support will ask for the serial number.  And they will let you know what can be done.

Hmm now the wife chimes in that this Bose store is a convene stop for her after work.  So we leave and when I get home I call Bose.

Bose:

Did you have a question or problem?

Me:

Yes I have a pair of Bose QC2 and the noise canceling has run a muck.

Bose:

Does it make this noise when it not connected to any audio signal?

Me:

Yes.

Bose:

Could you try removing the line in jack from the head phone, have you tried that already?

Me:

Yes, still the noise.

Bose:

Did you try replacing the battery wit a fresh one?

Me:

Yes.

Bose:

I don't have any thing in the database about this problem, and the warranty is for only one year.  But I can sell you a new QC2 and discount the price by 199.  Plus tax.  You will just have to send in your old headphones.

Sweet.  Not to mention their new model has made a few refinements over the years.  Now that breads brand loyalty.

My poor instant messenger Its adds are broken.

I did it with the help of Fiddler.

Now I almost feel guilty.

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This made me laugh.  Then cry.

Microsoft Did It

 I found this article on the BBC interesting:

Windows Vista is causing problems for some new PC owners hooking up their machine to a broadband connection.

One memorable quote:

One reader was warned by Virgin Media that it would be "weeks" before its software worked with Vista.

Come on Virgin, its not like you didn't have close to a year to get ready for this,  You are after all a ISP didn't you ever stop to look at the pretty new OS? and test your install pack?  Seriously ISP such as AOL are such vultures I find it hard to believe that they would not update their freebie install disks before vista computers hit the market.  How would you ever convince some one to buy AOL if they didn't get a free disk with they computer?

Virgin:

"We can get people online without the installation disc," he added. "It's not that it does not work, it's just the disc."

So Virgin sat on their lorals and now are paying the price in support calls.( I wonder what the average time to answer if for their support. )  But it gets better support has placed a help page.

The spokesman said BT had created a help page devoted to Vista to make it easier for people to get their PC connected.

I believes when I can read a help page with out broadband connection that....

BBC NEWS, Net firms tackle Vista headache

Strong Passwords for WinQual:

Password Requirements: Contain 8 - 16 characters with both upper and lower case (e.g., a-z, A-Z). Have digits and punctuation/symbol characters as well as letters e.g., 0-9, !@#$%^&*()_+|~-=\`{}[]:";'<>?,./). One or more of the characters from the second (2) to sixth (6) positions must not be an alphabet character e.g. between A-Z or a-z.

I wonder if I will remember it in the morning

Allison over at O'Reilly Radar wrote a little note to Google for the international feature.

By Allison Randal

Dear Google,

I applaud the enlightened international perspective that led you to provide your site in multiple languages and to detect a user's country and language preferences by their IP address. You'd be surprised how much French I remember from studying it as a child, and how much Dutch I can read as a result of studying Afrikaans the past 3 months. However, perhaps you should consider providing an option to change languages, or set a language preference, so your users aren't all forced to be so linguistically nimble when traveling. If there is such an option, I haven't been able to find it yet while navigating my account preferences in Dutch. I'm curious to experience Google Docs & Spreadsheets in Japanese, but maybe not that curious.

Love,
Allison

I post this as proof.  "Google guesses your language based on your IP address." and you doubted me!

Jeff Atwood over at Coding Horror is at it once more FizzBuzz: the Programmer's Stairway to Heaven In His second blog post he left out the FizzBuzz test so as not to distract his programmer brethren.  As with the last article Jeff addresses the surprisingly high ratio of weak programmers to interview candidates.

Jeff once again asserts his readers superiority

The whole point of the original article was to think about why we have to ask people to write FizzBuzz. The mechanical part of writing and solving FizzBuzz, however cleverly, is irrelevant. Any programmer who cares enough to read programming blogs is already far beyond such a simple problem. FizzBuzz isn't meant for us. It's the ones we can't reach-- the programmers who don't read anything-- that we're forced to give the FizzBuzz test to

In yesterdays post Why Can't Programmers.. Program? I thought Jeff ment if you read  programing blogs, you are competent.

I now realize Jeff is just trying not to offend his readers. 

The Moth broke the Orcas News fist.  The Orcas March CTP is available for download.

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