Browsing Posts published in February, 2006

Update … Maybe

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Originally published at customerservant.com. You can comment here or there. An email came down the line today, saying that the DB_Interface and Jaws issues will be solved in version 9.5, (we’re in 9.3), and that this should happen by the end of March. I’m not holding my breath, or rather, I shouldn’t hold my breath, [...]

You Could Have At Least Taken Me Out To Dinner

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Originally published at customerservant.com. You can comment here or there. It looks as though the PTO I put in for two weeks ago, and had OK’ed by my operations manager, was never put into the system. Consequently my check will be $71.44 short. If he was going to screw me like that, he could have [...]

Chabad Myths

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Originally published at customerservant.com. You can comment here or there. By Jeremy Rosen The Lubavitcher ( Chabad) Rebbe was undeniably a great man. Many of his followers have done outstanding work around the globe. But sadly as with every large organisation they have their crooks, their swindlers and their charlatans. Amongst their failings is an [...]

Convergys Settles For Paying Back Wages

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Originally published at customerservant.com. You can comment here or there. By Thomas Stauffer Arizona Daily Star Tucson, Arizona | Published: 02.27.2006 advertisement dillards/250×250 About 1,400 past and present Tucson call center employees of Convergys Corp. will receive more than $350,000 in back wages under a settlement with the U.S. Department of Labor. An investigation conducted [...]

Is self-defense law vigilante justice?

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Originally published at customerservant.com. You can comment here or there. from the February 24, 2006 edition of the Christian Science Monitor – www.csmonitor.com/2006/0224/p02s01-usju.html Some say proposed laws can help deter gun violence. Others worry about deadly confrontations. By Patrik Jonsson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor ATLANTA – Instead of embracing a citizen’s [...]

Data Mining: Taking Spying to Higher Level

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Originally published at customerservant.com. You can comment here or there. By JOHN MARKOFF NY Times www.nytimes.com/2006/02/25/technology/25data.html?pagewanted=print PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 23 – A small group of National Security Agency officials slipped into Silicon Valley on one of the agency’s periodic technology shopping expeditions this month. On the wish list, according to several venture capitalists who [...]

Your Call Should Be Important to Us, but It’s Not

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Originally published at customerservant.com. You can comment here or there. By WILLIAM C. TAYLOR NY Times www.nytimes.com/2006/02/26/business/yourmoney/26mgmt.html?pagewanted=print PAUL M. ENGLISH never imagined that a pet peeve would become such a cause célèbre. For more than four years, Mr. English, a veteran technologist and serial entrepreneur, has maintained a blog on which he shares everything from [...]

Brekher

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Originally published at customerservant.com. You can comment here or there. This is absolutely hilarious.

More Testing

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Originally published at customerservant.com. You can comment here or there. We just got userids and pwds for the apps, and the first impression isn’t favorable. There’s a combo box or something you’re supposed to use to select options in the main ap that does literally nothing. Jaws is completely silent. There’s another app that seems [...]

Testing Apps For Incoming Project

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Originally published at customerservant.com. You can comment here or there. This morning, when I got into work, I turned the system on, only to find that the master boot record had been corrupted. One of the technoshepherds got it back up and running, and I played around with the new apps for the new project [...]