Sometimes I wonder how big that bus must be that one can throw an entire country under. A pretty pretty one in this case. Not the bus. The country. Love it.
Moving is not fun. I used Bevery Hills Transfer and Storage before and things worked really well.
When I recently had to plan a move I was delighted that they still around. And everything was as perfect as it can be.
It makes such a difference if one knows that there are actual people who care about the job. I think that this kind of attitude can be found if the size of the company matches the task: If they are too small then stretched resources might make things inflexible. If a company gets too large people often stop caring. Since they do the big company starts to treat their people and customers like cattle. Prodding them into the flow via a byzantine set of rules and call centers.
Luckily Bevery Hills Transfer and Storage is the right size, and the people do care. That makes moving almost fun.
There are probably other companies out there that do a good job as well. Those I just don’t know. These people I have a great experience with. So they are the ones that I will call for my next move. And I am happy that I found them back in the day.
Skimming over the news (a bad thing in itself I must admit) it seems that the leap second addition – one might tempted to say – between June 30 and July 1st caused allot of Java based systems to fail.
While the headlines list who got affected and all that it is interesting that there was no reference to responsibility. Outages in general are news. Like the one on this recent Friday that took AMZN service and then some systems down.
In general it is all in a ‘oh well’ state. “shit happens”.
This attitude is awesome for technology providers: Not once saw I reference to who owns Java in those leap second bug reports. Sun did. Sun got bought by Oracle. Larry Ellison, principal and I guess at least part time owner of Oracle picked up a nice Hawaiian island the other day. How about he offers sys admins working late to work around HIS bugs a complimentary stay there?
One would think that Delta would know by now how to run an online booking system.
Seems not to be the case.
Just booked a flight. In the end the system told me that I took to long and that I should start over.
Bummer.
But I did.
Succeeded the second time.
When I checked my credit card statement I saw both the failed and the successful one on there.
The credit card company could not help.
Delta eventually credited the redundant flight. So they claim. It takes “7 to 10 business days” to charge this back.
Spent 1 hour with them on the phone to undo this.
I don’t need something complicated. I am just looking to buy a flight. Online. And maybe in one attempt.
This has been a seriously underwhelming experience. I think that “Delta” should start setting money aside to do a “Pacbell”.
Rebranding is probably gonna cheaper than trying to increase customer service or getting their systems to work properly and
to regain customers back the old fashioned way.
INTERDUBS support call: A client needs a folder for each US state and in there a specific set of sub folders. We don’t have that button!
What is awesome is that our clients just call before they start making something like this manually. There must be a better way. And of course there is.
17 minutes after the call the client had the desired list of folders. APIs are a nice thing to have. But even better are clients who call when things could
be improved.
I am not quiet current on what qualifies these days to obtain eternal life after death.
If you carbon footprint is part of the equation then my outlooks are pretty grim as I am about to schlep 14,44 KG of books half around the globe. A ridiculous ratio of them makes the trip not for the first time. The future self always has so much time. So much more than the version that actual lands with the plane and suitcases (full of books).
eBooks do not work. Hard to annotate. And -final reason- you can not read them like Napoleon:
He read books while ridding in front of his troops. When he was done with a page he ripped it out and handed it down to the next officer following him. Who then handed the page down to the next one when he was done reading it.
I have no idea where I picked this image up. The Internet and its search engines felt they should not help me with finding a source.
Wouldn’t even know exactly why, but I brought twexus back online.
Funny how one can replace weeks of perl coding with an hour of php a decade later.
I like ‘Breaking Bad’ allot. A great show.
The real side of meth production looks way less glamorous.
Just returned from a very nice stay in London.
We lucked out with the accommodation and with the weather alike.
We had a wonderful time in Notting Hill. The location is just awesome. A minute away from Embassy Row or the tube – yet very quiet.
Likewise the house has history and character while the apartment has all things in perfect condition.
If we would have liked to have the same space and features in a Hotel then we would have paid ridiculous amounts. I like that the Internet allows for a high quality services
like this apartment to find an audience. Hope that we find something similar in Brooklyn in the summer.