My ninth call to Westinghouse today, about my Westinghouse L2410NM 24″ LCD monitor which I RMA’ed back in March, revealed that they did in fact shipmy monitor, supposedly to my house, on April 4th or so. A UPS tracking number confirms it. There are are a few things wrong with this.

In spite of […]

I’m up to eight phone calls to Westinghouse now (about my RMA). (Previous Westinghouse enjoyment can be read here.) It’s been almost a month, and no one seems to know where my monitor is, other than reassuring me that “they received it”. I don’t think I should be kept waiting in the […]

After my monitor’s sudden death, I sent it off to Westinghouse to get it fixed. Westinghouse got my monitor on March 20th. I called them last week to see how it was doing, but after a good 10+ minutes listening to hold music I hung up without ever having spoken to anyone. […]

I found this Perl6 imaginary timeline hilarious. Sadly we’re in 2008 and I don’t think that blue line is quite as high as it was projected to be. Though it appears that development is still slowly chugging along. I still check up on Perl 6 once every six months or so. You […]

“Enterprise” is one of my least favorite buzzwords. (Though the top of my list of buzzword hatred will always be “solution”. Ugh. Enterprise is probably a close second or third.)
For the life of me I don’t know what “enterprise” means, when used in the buzzword sense to refer to software. Wikipedia […]

I decided to try a GUI app. I decided to use QT4. I then quickly remembered why I don’t ever use C++ for anything. The amount of bullcrap you have to go through just to get a simple program going isn’t worth the bother for the kinds of programs I write. […]

In the past I believe I may have said that Java was god-awful. I was mistaken. Java is far more evil than any god. Java sucks like the black, empty vacuum-void of nothing that existed before time began.
I’m tasked with maintaining and updating some Java code at work. Today I wandered […]

Does Westinghouse suck? Time will tell. As I recently pined, my beloved 24″ monitor died. Since then I’ve been going through the deeply unsettling process of getting it RMAed.
I’ve had to call Westinghouse three times already, just to get a number to write on the box before I mailed it to them […]

It took me a while to think of a good word to describe Vista in the title for this post. I went with offal because “the parts of a butchered animal removed in dressing; viscera; refuse; rubbish; garbage” at least approximates the smell of Vista somewhat accurately.
How can Microsoft so consistently make […]

“Goes bad” meaning “breaks”. My beloved 22″ monitor has died on me. I’ve gone from 1920×1200 pixels of widescreen goodness to an old 1024×768 CRT that they were going to throw in the trash at work.
The good thing is that now I can see for sure whether all of my web sites look […]