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This is heavy to write and the first of a few posts. Any on this topic may be hard to read, I suggest if you are not in a good headspace, maybe don’t read this or the later ones I post on the topic. I lost my partner/consort Kaitlyn to suicide on the night of May 16th. Three new moons ago. We had been together 11 years. No goodbye. Feel like I have to mention: no drugs, alcohol, or AI involved.…
I got what I asked for. So why write a followup? Because there’s more to the story. Sometimes you knock on doors with problems you know a department can handle and getting someone with authority to send it to that department gets it fixed (Here’s my story of it happening years ago with Comcast: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46020641 ). But this wasn’t that kind of time. I knew going into…
I’m in over a month now with non-working RCS on my iPhone 15 Pro. Apple blames the carriers, the carriers tell me it’s not them (mostly T-Mobile since I have good contacts there). They tell me they can’t really do anything about iPhones not working on RCS, go back to Apple. This is what it looks like: In short, it’s probably Apple or Google and there’s zero accountability from Apple. I have…
This blog was written without with the use of any LLM or AI. I may utilize them to aid in research or brainstorming, but I will not use generated outputs in these posts. In the past I didn’t even use a spellchecker, so my older blogs may have minor spelling errors. I found them distracting for longer-form writing. Please be assured, I wrote every word. As this is not generated content, I retain…
(this was an unfinished post from April 6th, 2024 I just decided to publish with some minor updates) It seems the earthquake shook out my writers block. This is a good topic because I live right next to where the earthquake originated from and I have a lot of random knowledge about the exact area. I wrote most of the account of yesterday’s events on the Hacker News thread. As of the time of this…
I haven’t written in this blog in forever but I wanted to say a few things about things going on. Overview # My company, Xwaretech, processes credit cards for web hosting and email service. It’s normally pretty boring aside from every once in awhile a customer will get new cards or need to update expiration date. This month all my payments failed. This never happened before since we started…
A year? Yeah, I think it’s been a year. (It’s been 3 now) I’ve been stuck not publishing or really writing much because I don’t know where to begin. I do write a lot in chat and 1-in-1 interactions. 1-to-many I’m more uncomfortable with. Let me be clear: I don’t fear the consequences of what I publish, it’s the not publishing anything that’s killing me. I am a generalist that understands how to…
Background # I wrote this a year or two ago when moonlighting at a small taxi company. It’s based on my experiences with NJ traffic court and my study of the state’s Title 39 law. All research is current as of 2019, but laws change so if you’re reading this later, it might be a good idea to read up on the things I cite. I am not a lawyer (and lawyers wouldn’t sanction a post like this as they’d…
I mentioned I went back to mostly using Microsoft stuff on the desktop. It works but I’ve had some big problems that should have simple solutions. Unfortunately nobody wrote about this anywhere else on the web and as is often the case, there’s no easy answers. Let me explain: What’s Microsoft Office 365 Home About? # Years back Microsoft used to ship boxed editions of Office. You paid once, got a…
(This post was written a long time ago, I just tidied it up and putting it out now. It was so long ago that I am feeling bad I haven’t had a chance to visit my friend in many months.) I spent last weekend up in Montreal with my friend. He’s a good friend and we’ve shared interest in technology over the years. Some background # I guess it dates back to 2002 or 2003 we met when I was troubleshooting…
