September 23, 2007

Reliquary of Technology: IBM-Compatible

Perhaps an approaching major birthday has me reflecting on the past. In recent days the antique phrase "IBM-compatible" stormed into my randomly accessed memory. It happened when I saw a magazine headline about Acer challenging Lenovo.

Lenovo is the Chinese company that bought IBM's personal computer business. So, I wondered, will anybody ever think in terms of "Lenovo-compatible" computers? I doubt it. Would the younger users of computers have even the vaguest idea of what IBM-compatible once meant in all its shades of meaning and techno-fury at Big Blue?

I feel old.

Van | 09/23/07 at 11:36 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

July 21, 2007

Rescuing comments from the flood

We are being flooded with junk comments and mostly I don't try to scan the junk file for real comments - it's too time-consuming. So if your comment didn't appear, that's the reason. I almost never delete comments unless someone has been annoying with no socially redeeming value for awhile. I have banned maybe 5 commenters in the 5 years this blog has been around.

One way to ensure that your comment will appear is to register with TypeKey. Or you can email me your comment and alert me that it didn't appear, and I'll add your email to the whitelist so you don't get junked in the future.

Judith | 07/21/07 at 07:30 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

May 12, 2007

5000 comments

Today Kesher Talk logged 5000 comments. I think when we transitioned to Movable Type from Blogger, we were able to bring along all comments from 2004-2006, so that's what we are counting from.

The 5000th comment was by co-blogger Benjamin Kerstein, in response to a critique of his serialized novel, by Scottish socialist and long-time KT gadfly Rob.

Thus three of the things that make Kesher Talk great are brought together in one milestone. The whole exchange is worth reading for its poignant humanism, intellectual depth and incisive wit.

I'm trying to think of a prize for Ben. Suggestions are welcome.

Judith | 05/12/07 at 07:05 PM | 6 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

April 17, 2007

Saved by Starbucks

My apologies if your comment didn't get published over the last 48 hours.

A Verizon main cable to which my phone is attached is inoperative (probably because of the huge storm a few days ago), and I haven't been able to get online since Sunday afternoon. I am typing this from Starbucks. It's really annoying that there is one every 2 blocks (It seems that every store front in Manhattan is either a bank, a Starbucks, or a Duane-Reade), but when you consider their main functions as good citizens of Manhattan - not their lousy coffee, but their free toilets as well as cheap wifi - they are not so obnoxious.

The T-Mobile tech support people were polite. But it took them 30 min to figure out why I couldn't log on. And the signal at the Starbucks at 52nd and 8th Ave. was intermittant (a totally unrelated problem to my difficulty accessing the T-Mobile login screen). So I had to pick up and move 2 blocks down 8th Ave to another Starbucks. So in addition to getting no internet access at home, it took me an hour to get online once I ventured out.

Is Mercury in retrograde or something?

Judith | 04/17/07 at 03:43 PM | 4 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

February 12, 2007

Kesher Talk: we never stop working for you

Well, we do occasionally. If you posted a comment and it didn't go through - I was away from my computer all day and didn't get to post the ones that were being held by the spam filter. I publish all comments unless the commenter is just being personally unpleasant over the course of 3-4 comments. I have only banned 3 people in the four year history of this blog. So if your comment doesn't appear, even for a whole day, please don't be alarmed.

Also I add emails of new commenters to a whitelist every month or so, and after that your next comment will go through immediately. As long as you keep using the same email address!

The last time I used this headline I was trying to decide which Verizon phone to get, being eligible for my 2 year upgrade. My decision:

Continue reading "Kesher Talk: we never stop working for you"

Judith | 02/12/07 at 05:45 PM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

January 28, 2007

Kesher Talk: We never stop working for you

I just went through 6 weeks of comments and put more new commenters into the email whitelister. So fewer of you will be snagged by the spam filter and you won't have to wait for me to approve your comments.

Yeah, I know it's 6 in the morning. I get on these all night jags sometimes.....

And the title refers to the fact that I am due for a cell-phone upgrade and have spent a week trying to figure out which one I want. After perusing reviews on Amazon, Phonescoop, and C|Net, all I know is that they all have problems, but some have more problems than others. I think the other carriers have better phones, but Verizon does get better reception.

I'm trying really hard to not buy the Treo, even though I can get it for $200. I don't need a Treo.

UPDATE: The Google Ads on the right sidebar (which never make me any money whatsoever) just returned Torah Ringtones and Jewish Ringtones. That's too silly.

Judith | 01/28/07 at 05:48 AM | 7 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

December 31, 2006

Conference video indirect tech bleg

I have uploaded a few videos from the conference to YouTube, but I am going to wait to post them until tomorrow because my bandwidth rolls over on the first of the month and I am about to run out and I don't want to buy more less than 24 hours before it rolls over anyway.

Also I need to figure out how private I want to make them. I would like people to see them who come to the blog, but not necessarily anyone on YouTube. Which is why I didn't want to use YouTube in the first place.

I edited and compressed them in QT Pro, but I havent' been able to figure out how to embed them without You Tube.

PS Happy New Year, everyone....

PPS And you can call me at 050-6842343, incoming minutes are free.

Judith | 12/31/06 at 06:43 AM | 4 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

December 21, 2006

Coffe-shop blogging

Hi from Cuppa Joe in Jerusalem, everybody. If you commented on a previous post and it didn't go through.... I mass deleted a bunch of them today after not checking them for almost a week. Please repost your comment and I'll have a chance to approve it.

Judith | 12/21/06 at 10:20 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

November 02, 2006

Why is my blog acting weird?

Why is my blog acting weird?

Trying to find out.

It looks like a template thing, but it was 2 hrs ago and I haven't done anything to the templates since last week.

UPDATE after refreshing: Looks okay now. What on earth was that?

Judith | 11/02/06 at 09:14 AM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

October 25, 2006

Improved commenting for nice people

I have a plug-in that allows my commenting system to recognize any email address without you having to do anything special. So every few days I collect the email addresses of new commenters and add them to the whitelist. What this means is that any time you have ever commented here since .... oh, July, because I'm not going to spend time going back farther than that .... your comments in future will show up without me having to approve them. (Unless you are a troll, in which case I ban you after you prove out as a troll after 2-3 comments, and you have to be really obnoxious with no redeeming features for me to consider you a troll.)

So carry on . . . .

Judith | 10/25/06 at 09:08 AM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

October 23, 2006

More code tweaking

As of yesterday we have had visitors from 148 different countries (lower right sidebar).

Note the news feed from Breitbart near the top of the right sidebar. This is a collaboration between Breitbart and Pajamas Media, offered to all PJ affiliates. At some point they will offer searches of all our blog archives.

I made some of the type more readable. The SiteMeter is back where it belongs, at the bottom of the screen (how it migrated to the top I do not know, not being a CSS wizard). I didn't even know that had happened, I thought it had gone invisible (although i didn't pay extra for that), but it was still tracking page views so ????. After a kind reader sent me a screenshot I asked for, I realized it was at the top of the page, but it only shows in IE, because a Microsoft non-standards-compliant browser does something weird to my banner. Since over 50% of our readers use IE on Windows XP, I need to figure out a fix for that. Or you could all just get Firefox . . . .

Judith | 10/23/06 at 07:51 AM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

October 20, 2006

Blog tech bleg

75% of our visitors are from Windows XP, and 65% of our visitors use Internet Explorer 6.X. I have a Mac and usually view KT in Safari or Firefox.

So if you are viewing this with the majority browser/OS, and you have the werewithal to make a screen grab, can you email it to me so I can see how it looks. Previously the banner wasn't rendering correctly and I would like an update. (You can send a JPEG or PDF.)

admin - at - keshertalk - dot - com (replace the at and dot with the symbols to make a functional email address.)

TIA,
Judith

Judith | 10/20/06 at 05:08 PM | 4 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

October 12, 2006

Welcome international visitors!

If you haven't checked our international visitor counter in awhile, scroll down to the lower right sidebar. We have now been visited at least once by 147 different nations (including a few extranational internet providers) since July 5th.

Top five are the Anglosphere core plus Israel. Big surprise. But it is gratifying to see so many visitors from the Middle East.

Judith | 10/12/06 at 07:07 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

September 08, 2006

test about continued entry

test starts here

Continue reading "test about continued entry"

Judith | 09/08/06 at 03:29 PM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

August 25, 2006

We aim to please

If you find your comment being published immediately instead of waiting for approval, it's because I installed a plug-in that allows me to whitelist whatever email addresses I want to.

More great customer service from Kesher Talk! - tip jar is now on the right.

Judith | 08/25/06 at 12:18 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

August 22, 2006

Rosh Chodesh Ellul begins this Thursday evening

As a harbinger of new beginnings and the upcoming ritual marking the season of new beginnings . . . . Our latest fun sidebar item (lower left right, under the still-grossly-underpopulated and intermittant del.icio.us tag cloud as part of a . . . more »

Judith | 08/22/06 at 07:36 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

August 21, 2006

More code futzing

I took out the photos of contributors because I have invited a few more folks into the Kesher Talk stable, and the masthead would be way too long. I added a "recent comments" section on the left, which will remind . . . more »

Judith | 08/21/06 at 11:37 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

August 15, 2006

I came here for an argument

My apologies for not approving comments very quickly today. I had to be (gasp!) away from my computer for, well, hours! (But the nervous dental student finally got good impressions for two crowns, and my hair is slightly more auburn . . . more »

Judith | 08/15/06 at 04:53 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

August 14, 2006

Futzing with the code, cont.

The search engine layout is useable now. Input is in the upper left sidebar. Works great. I've improved the info bar at the bottom of each post. Most of these have more than one category, and I am still working . . . more »

Judith | 08/14/06 at 09:58 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

Futzing with the code

Temporary technical difficulties - sorry! You will be able to get back into individual posts within the hour. UPDATE: All fixed! I sure am glad I had text files of all my MT templates, so I could compare to my . . . more »

Judith | 08/14/06 at 07:04 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

August 09, 2006

My 4th blogging anniversary

I first started posting on this blog Friday, August 9th, 2002. Which that year was Rosh Chodesh Ellul. (This year Rosh Chodesh Ellul is August 25th.) Glenn Reynolds had his 5th blogging anniversary yesterday. I still can't get my mind . . . more »

Judith | 08/09/06 at 11:10 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

July 31, 2006

Sitemeter anniversary

Last summer I moved Kesher Talk from Blogger to Movable Type, and I zeroed out the Sitemeter on July 30th, 2005. Since then we have had 147,878 total visits, which averages out to about 2830 / wk. Traffic jumped beginning . . . more »

Judith | 07/31/06 at 12:59 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

July 25, 2006

Comment formatting is fixed!

Those of you who regularly comment on this site will be pleased to know that I figured out why paragraph breaks were not showing up in comments. It was one MT setting that I never noticed before. D'oh. So already . . . more »

Judith | 07/25/06 at 11:51 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

July 23, 2006

Welcome international visitors!

As of today 100 102 103 countries have visited this blog since I set up the counter on July 5th. (See the lower right sidebar for the list.) . . . more »

Judith | 07/23/06 at 11:47 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

July 20, 2006

Latest Kesher Talk statistics

16,000 visits in 2 weeks. That's about 1150 visits a day. From 92 countries, Argentina to Venezuela. (Check out the pretty maps on the lower right sidebar.) Two months ago we averaged 2000 visits a week. Thank you my esteemed . . . more »

Judith | 07/20/06 at 12:24 AM | 3 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

July 16, 2006

Welcome, Palestinian readers!

I keep kvelling over the international visitor counter in the lower righthand sidebar - it's very gratifying to see readers (or at least people checking us out) from all over the world, and the flags are really pretty. I notice . . . more »

Judith | 07/16/06 at 07:41 PM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

July 10, 2006

Too much 4th of July

Someone just emailed me that my 4th of July playlist starts playing whenever they visit this blog, and locks up their computer. The code is: autostart="false" so it should only play when you click on the embedded player. If it . . . more »

Judith | 07/10/06 at 10:42 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

July 09, 2006

International visitors

I am loving that NeoCounter at the bottom of the right sidebar. I had installed it about 6 months ago, and it kept hanging up my page loading, so I reluctantly uninstalled it. Then I wanted to see if they . . . more »

Judith | 07/09/06 at 07:07 PM | 5 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

July 05, 2006

Back online

Sorry for the blackout. I had a whole month's worth of bandwidth left, so I figured I woudn't run out even if I posted an hour-long mp3 file. Silly me. . . . more »

Judith | 07/05/06 at 03:53 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

Where in the world?

I put the NeoCounter back, at the bottom of the right sidebar. Maybe it'll behave this time. . . . more »

Judith | 07/05/06 at 01:16 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

June 06, 2006

06-06-06

Everything you ever wanted to know about 666, from - who else? - John Derbyshire. Beast jokes from Jonah Goldberg. UPDATE: Via email: . . . more »

Judith | 06/06/06 at 01:56 PM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

April 21, 2006

Blog tech

The last few entries I posted using MarsEdit, and it seems pretty smooth. I had been using Ecto, which is more full-featured, but its HTML coding was quirky and then it refused to recognize my blog log-ins so I could . . . more »

Judith | 04/21/06 at 03:29 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

March 31, 2006

Sidebar ch-ch-ch-anges

I just got rid of the Crispads in the right sidebar. I never make any money on them and the animations are more annoying than the ones in the PJ Media ads. I find the entire blog visually tiring - . . . more »

Judith | 03/31/06 at 06:45 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

March 27, 2006

Bandwidth bleg

Well, we're back! Whew. I got bumped up 2 levels by my hosting service (the wonderful Living Dot) just to get back online. In other words, my bandwidth costs me twice as much as it did last month. The ads, . . . more »

Judith | 03/27/06 at 08:26 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

January 02, 2006

Site design bleg

If you are using a Windows browser, specifically IE 6.0, tell me how the layout looks. The vast majority of my hits are from IE 6.0, and the next most popular is Firefox 1.5, which could be Mac or Win. . . . more »

Judith | 01/02/06 at 05:08 PM | 11 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

January 01, 2006

Goodbye, [x] visitors from [y] countries!

I very reluctantly uninstalled the global visitor counter. The idea is fantastic, the implementation sucked. I am sure this site is run by some pimply teenage geek in Shanghai. Maybe one of these guys. Who now has my PayPal login . . . more »

Judith | 01/01/06 at 09:07 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

December 18, 2005

Small world

I just installed a counter on the left sidebar which tracks the countries our visitors come from. It also tracks traffic in general, but I just installed it last night so it doesn't show much traffic so far. Also, I'm . . . more »

Judith | 12/18/05 at 11:50 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

December 09, 2005

Play nice

Things went buggy when I installed Firefox 1.5 and updated some extensions. WYSIWYG Editor for Movable Type doesn't want to play nicely with these new things. But I don't see why it has to have a tantrum and eat my . . . more »

Judith | 12/09/05 at 01:55 PM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

December 01, 2005

Testing bookmarklet

I just put the MT posting bookmarklet on my toolbar and I'm testing it out. . . . more »

Judith | 12/01/05 at 11:46 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

Vanity

I got inspired by Mary and put my picture on the masthead. My good friend (and gracious hostess in Austin), Susan Broockman, snapped a few while I was visiting her last week. Susan is a wonderful photographer whose work you . . . more »

Judith | 12/01/05 at 02:33 PM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

November 17, 2005

Unpacking

I think the blog is finally back to normal, after a complicated move. Some of the blockquotes on older posts are hosed, and I'm not sure how much stomach I have for fixing that. But everything else seems to check . . . more »

Judith | 11/17/05 at 12:35 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

November 14, 2005

This is getting tiresome

testing testing..... . . . more »

Judith | 11/14/05 at 03:55 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

Hello world!

I moved the blog over to a new host, so please pardon the boxes all over the floor, half-unpacked suitcases, and nothing to sit on. The furniture should be delivered sometime today . . .  I lost a few posts . . . more »

Judith | 11/14/05 at 07:32 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

October 31, 2005

Very tedious details

Well, that was fun. Half the blog disappeared last night and had to be coaxed back. We tried to switch it to PHP dynamic publishing since rebuilds were running so slow, then it blew up. Then we switched it back. . . . more »

Judith | 10/31/05 at 02:31 PM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

October 29, 2005

Rebuilding

[ UPDATE: If you are reading this it means individual posts are hosed right now, but my wonderful Nexcess tech guy who never sleeps is on the case. (So if you want really responsive MT-proficient blog hosting, check them out!) . . . more »

Judith | 10/29/05 at 12:18 AM | 0 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

October 28, 2005

More MT tweaking for your viewing pleasure

The category listing on the left sidebar now shows up in Category Archive View. The titles in the title bar for Category and Monthly Archives look nicer. The most recent 15 entries in both Category and Monthly Archive Views display . . . more »

Judith | 10/28/05 at 12:32 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

October 14, 2005

Code

Does anyone know why some posts (only in Firefox) have that weird little --> arrow at the top and others don't? And why do my ads run off the right side of the page in IE? (Probably explains why no . . . more »

Judith | 10/14/05 at 04:06 PM | 7 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

September 30, 2005

Slight bleg

Anyone notice how varied my BlogAds are? One promoting Christian radio, one advocating fighting the "religious right" by emphasizing the establishment clause, one for a "spiritual esoterica" emporium, and my free ad promoting the Jewish BlogAd network. (That's right, one . . . more »

Judith | 09/30/05 at 03:00 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

September 20, 2005

A couple of coding issues

1) How do I use css to make boxes with reversed text inside? As in the sidebar of this blog, for example? 2) When I make a new post, it takes a long time to propagate to Firefox 1.0.6, but . . . more »

Judith | 09/20/05 at 12:01 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

September 13, 2005

Those darn ads

I think I'm going to switch the left and right columns so the content doesn't hang up while the ads load. . . . more »

Judith | 09/13/05 at 07:45 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

September 10, 2005

Categorizing

It is so nice to have this blog finally looking the way I want it. Movable Type 3.2 is great, except for the mostly non-existant documentation. I am in the process of gradually stripping out the duplicate titles from older . . . more »

Judith | 09/10/05 at 08:16 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

September 02, 2005

The wonderfulness of ads

If all those ads are annoying you, check this out. It's a podcast of Bukharan Jewish music, via Nextbook, which I clicked on from one of the CrispAds links. . . . more »

Judith | 09/02/05 at 07:54 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

Rebuilding . . .

So after hours upon days of poring over geeky websites about arcane CSS code - none of which ever give you all the steps you need to just plug what you need - I finally cobbled together a 3-column layout . . . more »

Judith | 09/02/05 at 07:16 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

September 01, 2005

Too many browsers

I've been futzing with the layout in preparation for installing a 3-column layout. Looks fine in Firefox and Safari, but in IE for Mac there's a huge amount of white space under the banner. 1) Is it the same in . . . more »

Judith | 09/01/05 at 07:16 AM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

August 29, 2005

Like a version

Good ole Nexcess just upgraded MT for me to version 3.2. Apparently I can now install a 3-column style sheet with minimal fussing. So the hours I spent twiddling with that code and bugging my CSS-savvy friends was in vain. . . . more »

Judith | 08/29/05 at 10:14 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

July 25, 2005

More finicking

Responding to feedback, I changed the link colors and the default type size for posts and blockquotes. Let me know if this works better for you. Does everyone know that there are simple keyboard commands for changing type size? On . . . more »

Judith | 07/25/05 at 01:27 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

July 19, 2005

Feedback requested

Someone just emailed me that it's hard to see the links on this page. I tried to make the colors distinctive while blending into an overall color scheme, but readability is more important. If you have trouble seeing which words . . . more »

Judith | 07/19/05 at 10:05 PM | 4 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

July 13, 2005

Yet more housekeeping

Cool image, huh? I downloaded that from the web 7-8 years ago and I have been wanting to use it in a Kesher Talk logo for awhile. It's a synagogue mosaic floor from I think the 2nd century CE. (I . . . more »

Judith | 07/13/05 at 07:25 PM | 0 Comments | 2 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

More housekeeping

Yes, the sidebar is getting crowded. I want to start posting Blogads and Amazon Affiliate links as soon as I can figure out how to make the code work. So I will probably go to a 3-column format soon. If . . . more »

Judith | 07/13/05 at 12:40 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

July 10, 2005

Housekeeping

I asked Scott to help me with some code and he took the opportunity to force my hand on updating the blogroll, so I guess that tedious chore is what I am doing this evening. So everyone can stop kvetching . . . more »

Judith | 07/10/05 at 08:08 PM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

July 05, 2005

Finicking

To do list for new blog: 1) go back through as many entries as I can stand to and delete boldface titles at beginning of paragraphs, and clean up auto-generated MT titles. 2) Ditto on putting parts of long posts . . . more »

Judith | 07/05/05 at 04:37 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

May 03, 2005

Bloggers uber alles

I got invited into this about six months ago, still not sure what it's actually going to look like or do for me (or me for it). But anything that threatens the mainstream media sounds like fun. I really . . . more »

Judith | 05/03/05 at 05:48 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

March 13, 2005

Latest spam innovation

It had to happen:Dear Sir, My humble compliments. My name is Capt. David Spins I am an American soldier, I am serving in the military of the 1st Armored Division in Iraq, we have just been re-assigned to Germany. . . . more »

Judith | 03/13/05 at 09:42 AM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

February 10, 2005

Customer service, cont.

I previously posted about Verizon Wireless' curious map. Well, looks like Verizon listened to its customers. That's a good thing, because my latest contract with them has another 18 months left. . . . more »

Judith | 02/10/05 at 01:28 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

October 14, 2004

The violent death of Blogger

Sorry for the absence. I couldn't post for 6 days. I don't know if the problem was at the Hosting Matters end or the Blogger end, but I do know this: I submitted my first help ticket on Sunday, . . . more »

Judith | 10/14/04 at 08:02 PM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

April 21, 2004

Memo to Verizon

I want to bring to your attention the interesting fact that when I first signed up for DSL service, it took 3 days for the modem to arrive and the service to be switched on, whereas now that I . . . more »

Judith | 04/21/04 at 11:54 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

April 18, 2004

Bloggus Interruptus

Blogging has been light while I wait for $&&%^%!!! Verizon to turn on my phone in my new apartment. Meanwhile, the Starbucks on the corner next to a Verizon Hotspot will do. (Since Verizon WiFi comes with my phone/DSL . . . more »

Judith | 04/18/04 at 09:33 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

February 02, 2004

New Atom Feed

New Atom Feed: Kesher Talk can now be syndicated using Atom. . . . more »

William | 02/02/04 at 09:30 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details