Would people be more sympathetic to Mike Duffy if he was not fat? Probably not...

[Old news article]

http://news.nationalpost.com/.../

Sen. Mike Duffy charged the Senate for travel and daily expenses during the last federal election when he was campaigning for the Conservatives, new RCMP court documents allege.

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[From comments on CBC story yesterday]

Duffy complaining about losing a nice cushy government pay cheque is tawdry. The man is retired, did he not plan for his elder years? Oh and please stop using the heart card, it doesn't play, as from his portly appearance one can guess that the man has not taken the time to participate in heart health rehabilitation. That included walking 3 miles at least 5 times a week.

Facebook essentials

If you took these away from Facebook, what would there be left?

• pictures of cats and dogs
• pictures of food
• comments about things people agree with
• comments about things people want to promote
• quotations that people think are clever

Oxymoronic headline of the day

Squamish boater turns up missing.

DUH!

I got this e-mail today entitled "How To Feel A Little Bit Less Stupid." It is a joke file, containing stupid things people have said, accompanied by graphics and pictures. The entire body of the message (which in total was 336538 bytes long) was repeated twice. Suggestion on "how to feel a little bit less stupid" -- edit joke e-mails before you forward them!

Samsung Customer Support = STUPID!

I can't believe how stupid Samsung is (well, I should know this, I have a Samsung smart [sic] phone).

I wanted to contact them about a problem with my SCX-4600 printer. I went to their WWW site where I had registered my printer and had set up an account. Because I couldn't remember my password for this account, I sent myself an e-mail via this WWW site which I duly received a few seconds later. This e-mail has a link in it to reset your password. So I click on this, which goes to another WWW page. Which says "this link is broken." WTF! Talk about stupid.

So I phoned their customer service number in the e-mail to complain about this. The guy there (who was very polite and spoke perfect English) was totally useless, saying that he had no control over passwords (I pointed out I didn't want him to get involved with my password in the security sense, I was telling him that the MECHANISM to deal with passwords was BROKEN ... but he didn't get that either).

Then he asked what I wanted to contact them about.

So I told him. I got this pop-up window from Samsung when I started up my computer today, saying that there was new firmware available for my printer. So I clicked on a button in the pop-up, and the firmware is downloaded. But the instructions tell me that I have to turn on my printer to install it. Well -- DUH -- the bloody printer is ALWAYS ON (unless there is some mysterious meaning to the word "ON" which I am not getting). So I proceeded with this installation and it DOES NOT WORK. Sheesh!

The guy then told me that there was NO FIRMWARE UPDATE FOR THIS PRINTER, despite the fact that I told him the firmare upgrade number from the initial screen of the pop-up. So I suggested to him that maybe whatever mechanism that is causing this pop-up for a nonexistent firmware upgrade should be dealt with. He didn't seem to get this either.

What is the point of a "support" line if they can't "support" the customers?

Another Modern Dilemma

Walking into a clothing store and saying "I'd like to buy a pair of jeans" is like walking into Starbucks and saying "I'd like a cup of coffee."

Mysteries of Life

Why is it that when I want to stop some page loading with Micro-Slop Internet Explorer, if I push the "stop" button, the page invariably loads a fraction of a second later?

Same thing with checking voice mail on my phone. When I turn on the phone, there is no message that says there is voice mail, but if I dial voice mail, suddenly all these pop-up windows making bonging noises that I have to cancel appear.