13. September, 2003 - Aspenair sucks
- Here’s some local telemarketing scum: Aspenair Heating and Air Conditioning of 656 Lake St N, Forest Lake, MN. 651-982-2626 . They called about noon on Friday with an automated dialer (illegal under MN Statute 325E.27 for them to to that), ignored the No Solicitation service I have on my line, and when I called to get off their list and generally bitch at them, they denied doing anything illegal. I’ve sicced the MN Attorney General’s Office on them, and filed a complaint with the Minnesota and North Dakota Better Business Bureau. While I wouldn’t encourage any illegal behavior, I sure wouldn’t mind if they got a number of calls to come out and clean non-existent chimneys in the metro-area.
- Says here that Danger is going to be offering new features in the Hiptop just in time for me to renew my one-year plan. But as Cory points out, T-Mobile’s voice plan is nothing special, and there are other cool phones out there. I like my hiptop, but I seldom carry it anymore. It’s heavier than I like, and the one feature I dug most when I saw the betas last year still isn’t on the list as something I can get (a ssh client, so I can fix my server remotely). I’m not sure what I’ll be looking for in a phone, but the two directions I could go are to drop the cell-phone entirely or to try and find one that’s a good replacement for my landline (see previous entry).
- Hard times, nasty battle at First Avenue, as the owners try to sort out who actually owns the place, and the club’s losing money. I worry a bit about that, since the land under the club is probably pretty valuable now. [strib]
- Call the heat on Fahrenheit 451 tells the story of a teacher who found an interesting way of discussing the lessons of the book. [endwar]
- In IE, Flash, and patents: here comes trouble, Zeldman details (and points to a news.com story which also lists) the problems that will hit the web if the Eolas patent on embedded bits in webpages is upheld. I can see two good things coming of this: first, more people will be taking a hard look at the faults in the current patent system, especially for business method and software patents; second, maybe it’ll kill off those damned blinking flash ads that companies put to suck your eyes away from the content you’re trying to read. [zeldman]
- I spent a while yesterday resurrecting the F page of the LM Jargon File. Seems that somewhere along the way, about half the content of that page had gotten lost, so I had to rummage around for an old backup. Good thing I don’t much throw things away.
- I put this picture in the links yesterday, but Jim points out that he really enjoyed it in its original Billboard Magazine ad form. It’s from a 1998 ad that American Recordings ran after Johnny won a won a Grammy for Unchained as best country album. [jim]
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Last updated on Sat, 13 Sep 2003 12:13:54.