Monthly Archives: July 2009

Those WERE The Droids…

Via rose from the dead

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Verizon Customer Service Win

On average, I get a “courtesy call” from one Verizon service or another almost every day. As both a VZW and FIOS customer, each professional service organization tries regularly to up-sell me. So far I have not received a call

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Heroes

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It Seems So Obvious

It seems so obvious: If you want to develop software that’s useful to people, you’ve got to talk with them. But too many developers take the anti-social approach and consider customer support to be beneath their status… If you really

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The Hyannis Sound – On The Clock

I’ve been a big fan of The Hyannis Sound since 1999, when the first Chip joined the group. Some friends and I camped out in the backyard of their (then) Orleans house in the summer of 2003 because… well, just

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XHTML 1.1 Strict New Window Links With jQuery

I was throwing together a prototype site last night and I thought it might be nice to aim for XHTML 1.1 Strict compliance, really just for kicks. Most of the time, this is no big deal, but I was stuck

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