I just had a friendly chat with the American Express Account Security group. My card got flagged for unusual activity (“Why are charges from London appearing?”), and they sent me an e-mail.
I fired up Skype, called the US toll-free number and dealt with it in 2 minutes.
Have I mentioned that Skype rocks?
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Month: May 2006
Cable management, Geek Style
This rocks.
If it wasn’t a company laptop….
Via Lifehacker and Make
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London, Ho!
I fly to London on the red-eye, leaving Boston at 21:00 EDT. I land at Heathrow at about 08:30 BST, which means that if I time my sleep right, I should not even notice the jet lag.
Looks like a rainy weekend in the city, but I do plan to get out and see a few things.
Blog more after I land.
GrabPERF: Domain issues
If you try to access GrabPERF via http://www.grabperf.com/ or http://www.grabperf.net/, you will have noticed that you can’t reach the Web server.
The domains are being transferred to a new registrar, and the authoritative servers have not yet been set up. Just use http://www.grabperf.org/ for the next few days.
Sorry.
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You HAVE to buy this bed
Got a screenshot of this before it goes away.
I think this qualifies as a classic Craigslist purchase.
Technorati Tags: Craigslist, phallus, bedroom, classifieds, wtf
Break out the wa-wa pedal and the polyester leisure suit, and let’s drive!
The Head Lemur has posted a car for sale on hist site. [here]
Technorati Tags: 71 Mercury Cougar XR7, Big Iron
D-Day this year has a WHOLE new meaning
This story would be funny, if it didn’t happened to be my youngest son’s birthday.
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GrabPERF: Embarassing, but true — Service Outage
Ok, looks like the GrabPERF server was unreachable from 00:36 GMT until 01:24 GMT (20:36 EST – 21:24 EST).
This is very embarassing, as I am the one who is usually calling out folks for outages.
I will be checking with my hosting team to see what the root cause was.
Excuse me while I decide what to do about the teeth marks in my butt.
UPDATE: Just heard from my hosting provider that there was a planned outage last night. Sorry folks.
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IE7 Re-installed, and some thoughts
With some help from the IE7 team, I got IE7 installed. Turns out that there is a conflict between Microsoft (IE7 Beta2) and Google (Desktop Version 2). The Web history indexing performed by Google Desktop somehow conflicts with the way that IE7 Beta 2 handles Web history.
Now that it’s installed I want to try it out. But so far, nothing about it rocks my world. I am sure that the IE7 team could give me an amazing tour, but it isn’t a workspace for me. Firefox is more than “just” a browser. I work in Firefox. And IE7 doesn’t feel like a workspace platform.
I will continue to try it out for a couple of weeks. Maybe I will find the killer app for it.