Even More Atrocious Customer Service

Posted by Doug on April 29th, 2004 | No Comments

Yes, it's that time again. Time for another installment in our ongoing series, "Doug Gets Poor Customer Service."
My wife and I went to Genuardi's the other day in order to obtain certain products that we've been unable or unwilling to find at our local Whole Foods.
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Yes, my wife and I now shop [...]

Posted in Customer Service

Help Get LCpl. Van Fleet Hired!

Posted by Doug on April 29th, 2004 | No Comments

I have a bit of a favor to ask from my readers today. There's a young Marine that goes to my church by the name of LCpl. Brian Van Fleet who needs some help in his "blue-to-gray" transition. He's currently stationed out of the Willow Grove NAS/JRB and he's been back in [...]

Posted in Friends, Military

Indecision 2004

Posted by Doug on April 28th, 2004 | No Comments

Well, Toomey lost yesterday. He lost by somewhere between 15k-20k votes (~2% of the votes cast). Needless to say, I'm pretty disappointed, and not just because I dislike Specter so much. PA Republicans missed a genuine opportunity yesterday, not only to dethrone one of the worst GOP senators, but also to place [...]

Posted in Politics

Fedora Core 2 Test 3 Released

Posted by Doug on April 27th, 2004 | No Comments

The latest, greatest test version of Fedora has been released and is ready for all you early adopters to pound it into the ground. As always, DULUG has .torrents available for your (and everyone else's) downloading convenience.
I'll be grabbing it and installing it on my secondary box ASAP. See you in Bugzilla!

Posted in Linux

PA Primary Day

Posted by Doug on April 27th, 2004 | No Comments

To all PA GOP'ers:
Remember, today is primary (I like to call it "Freedom from Specter" Day) day in PA.
Head to the polls and pull the lever for Toomey, a genuine conservative.

Posted in Politics

GMail Beta Test

Posted by Doug on April 26th, 2004 | No Comments

I logged into Blogger today, due mainly to yesterday's story on Slashdot regarding Blogger users being chosen as GMail beta testers. Lo and behold, what did I see?

I'll post more as I have experience with it.

Posted in General, Technology

Exhibit 13 - continued

Posted by Doug on April 26th, 2004 | No Comments

After some quick Googling this morning, I found that the Exhibit 13 song and video are available on the web at Exhibit13.com (Viewing requires that you have Flash installed, so beware).
I found it to be extremely moving and even now, sitting at my desk, I have to hold back the tears as I [...]

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