Placing a large order at Amazon recently has taught me two things:

1) They do indeed have a customer service number. You won’t find it anywhere on the site, but you can dig it up.

The number is: (800) 201-7575.

2) If they lower the price on an item you purchased within the last 30-days, they will offer you a refund for the difference, no questions asked. Just fill out the Returns & Refunds Form explaining your situation. You should get a reply within 24-hours.

Two more reasons to keep shopping Amazon, IMO.

I thought I was going to wait until July, but I broke down and joined the HD Era ahead of schedule. This morning I pulled the trigger and ordered a Samsung LN-S4695D (46″ 1080p LCD).

I was tossing around between the Sharp Aquos LC46D62U and the Sony KDL-46XBR2. From what I read, the Sharp models have a serious banding issue and the Sony models have clouding issues and the price includes the Sony tax.

Samsung has a newer model (LNS4696D) but as far as I can tell the only differences on the new model are USB 1.1, Firewire, and a cable card slot. Nothing I would miss, or pay an extra $400 for.

Now what the hell am I going to do with a 46″ set in a 600-square-foot apartment???

Hello WordPress.

My blogroll and digg thingie broke, my comments are off because I am getting inundated with comment spam. Most of all I have nothing of value to say 1/30 days a month so… I am taking a little break here. I’ll be back when I can spend some time fixing up the site.

I’ve been getting a lot of email lately from people sending me this stupid 9/11 conspiracy video called “Loose Change.” I’ve tried to ignore it for months now, but you morons keep forwarding it to me, and I keep having to add more email addresses to my spam filter. The ironic part is that I’m a huge conspiracy nut, and even I can’t stomach this bullshit. For example, I believe that there is a small, reptile-like creature called Chupacabra that sucks the blood of goats in Mexico. Area 51? Hell yes. Roswell? Pass me the Kool-Aid. But “Loose Change” elevates bullshit to an artform.

Link.

There’s an arrow in the FedEx logo! All these years — right before my eyes!

Since when did the term “long tail” take over the word “pop” (as in, “Adding red to the diagram really made the text pop“) as the office idiots word of choice (in the grand tradition of “paradigm” and “synergy“)?

Trying to fix a weird C++ bug the better half of the week and the debugger tried to cheer me up:

I know it’s not that funny but at this point I’ll take anything.

I started this weblog on 7/24/2002. Today, 7/24/2005, I decided to delete all of the old entries and start again.