'Rants' Category
My Documentum Podcast
Yikes, I don’t know whether to be impressed or frightened that an interview I gave last year about EMC’s Documentum software has made it onto the web as a podcast:
Geoffrey McCaleb’s Documentum Podcast
The audio was taped back in 2005 when I visited EMC Documentum’s Momentum conference in Las Vegas. It was hard enough to keep […]Apple (finally) releases AppleTV (iTV)
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Now there’s always something good on TV. With Apple TV, you can enjoy movies, TV shows, music, and podcasts in your iTunes library, plus photos and movie trailers, on your widescreen TV […]Top 10 annoyances of OSX Tiger (10.4)
With scores of Apple faithful ready to descend on the Moscone Center this week, there’s no doubt that a bevy of new products and hardware will all vie for their attention. Front and center of course will be Leopard (10.5), the latest and greatest OS for the Mac.
Leopard’s predecessor OSX Tiger 10.4, is one […]Think customer service is dead? John Lewis begs to differ
Remember the good ‘ol days of customer service? Friendly staff. Plush showrooms. People who actually knew a thing or two about what they sold?
It seems with each passing year staff get ruder, less knowledgeable, and more remote.
Quick poll, have you ever:
1. Asked a question in Dixons/Currys/Comet/PC World/Homebase and received a knowledgable reply?
2. Phoned […]Ebay cross verification bug (aka error 3005)
For an e-tailer, there isn’t a worse time of year to have major issues with your site than the run-up to Christmas, but that is precisely what Ebay seems to be struggling with at the moment.
Ebay calls it a cross verification bug, essentially it is the link between a users Ebay and their Paypal […]
