February 14th, 2005
So let's just ignore the fact that it's Saint Valentine's Day, shall we? A lot has been written about it, both pro and con ... and none of it worth anything since Geoffrey Chaucer's "Parliament of Fowls".
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Right. So I've been away all week at a client's site, and I haven't had a chance to change my site. But I occasionally had time to steal a peek at the user stats and discovered that a lot of people are coming to these pages:
After all, it is my observation that smokers are long past needing to be told why they should quit smoking ... if they want to quit, they should be hearing how to quit smoking. (But that's not very fun for non-smokers is it? I mean, who else can we smack repeatedly with statistics? Ah ... I know, people who are someone else's idea of overweight.)
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When I was in Silicon Valley last week, I came across this really cool vending machine that sold potato chips, chocolate bars, digital cameras, memory sticks, cans of pop, and MP3 players.
I actually needed a USB memory drive, so I popped in my credit card and ordered it up. The interface asked me for my ZIP code and there things ground to a halt. I live in Canada and I don't have a ZIP code. I have a postal code, but that's little help when the keypad has no letters (so I can't enter it). I tried a few things, such as my telephone number, the digits of my postal code that I could enter, and some other things (including someone else's ZIP code from when he was living in Texas). No luck.
So I didn't get my memory stick, alas, until I returned to Vancouver. Then I bought it from my local geek store. Their loss, I suppose, but I did leave a message at their 1-800 number. No reply, of course ... what do they care if some random Canadian schmuck didn't get his memory stick? (who knows what their markup on that was) But I coulda used a chocolate bar and some chips, too.
As I said, their loss ...
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I have four questions for you.
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