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Commentary First World Problems Tech

Microsoft keeps trying to help me

This is the state of my Lync problem as of today. Yes, I changed the background. The rest looks the same. Bounce, bounce, login, crash. I never stopped to think about this before, but if you’re Microsoft, people obviously blame you for everything wrong with their computer. Dodgy hardware crashes Windows? Microsoft sucks! A pirated […]

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Commentary First World Problems Tech

Microsoft tries to @Helps me

These last few days I’ve had a few unpleasant run-ins with support for different companies. These were not the result of mean people, but of uncaring and somewhat incompetent companies. Today I’ll be mocking the software titan, Microsoft. I use Microsoft Lync a lot at work. It’s a good IM solution, and used to work […]

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First World Problems Tech

Purging plenty of piles of paperwork

Like any modern household, we deal with piles and piles of paperwork. From the legally vital (house deed), through the hope-I-don’t-need-to-use-it (various insurance things, contracts), to the obnoxious (no-interest* balance transfer checks for credit cards). For the latter, I have a good shredder and I’m not afraid to use it. But the former poses a […]

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Tech Writing

James Mickens is a great writer

A computer scientist, a systems programmer, a gentleman, and a scholar. And a Microsoft Employee, but he works for the Research division, so that makes it sort of ok. But all of that pales in comparison to the most hilarious thing you’ll read on the Internet today, if you’re of a hackerish persuasion. The Night […]

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First World Problems Tech

FedEx Home delivery Part 2: success

In the end, FedEx managed to get the printer to a store on Saturday, and the automated tracking system emailed me. When I drove to the store… the printer was there, and I got it. Very uneventful. They did a good job of uniting me and my parcel. There was a bit more anxiety than necessary, […]