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• Customer Service Is Not Rocket Science, Part Two

  I find it irritating, but not surprising, when I get absurdly bad customer service from a business whose business model is based on volume and high margins. But I find it quite surprising, and indeed, greatly amusing , to get absurdly bad customer service Read More... Posted Monday, June 23, 2008 8:20 AM by Eric Lippert | 26 Comments Filed under: Rants, Non-computer

• Democracy in Action

  I saw Tom Stoppard's play "Jumpers" recently. The line that got the biggest audience response: "It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting ." True, that. I've written a bunch more code for my "Google On The Cheap" series but I've been incredibly Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 03, 2004 9:48 AM by Eric Lippert | 9 Comments Filed under: Rants, Non-computer

• The National Coin Flipping League Championship Series

  No tech today, but a little basic math. In baseball, a sport I know little about, apparently the Boston Red Sox have recently come back from a three game deficit to win a best-of-seven series against their traditional rival team, the New York Yankees. Read More... Posted Thursday, October 21, 2004 12:09 PM by Eric Lippert | 62 Comments Filed under: Rants, Rarefied Heights, Non-computer

• I Have A Mysterious Fifth Sense

  A little fun for a Friday afternoon. The economy must be picking up -- I'm getting cold calls from recruiters again for the first time in about four years. Today was the second (and third!) this month. However, apparently some of them are just a wee bit Read More... Posted Friday, August 20, 2004 4:35 PM by Eric Lippert | 16 Comments Filed under: Rants, Non-computer

• The Attribute Of Manliness

  This is a technical, not a political, current-events, linguistic or academic blog. (You know of course that as soon as I say that, it's because I'm about to post something that is political, timely, linguistic and academic. Foreshadowing: your sign of Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 18, 2004 11:38 AM by Eric Lippert | 16 Comments Filed under: Rants, Non-computer

• Math is Everywhere

  A number of coincidences led to this post -- first, I got an email from one of the Mikes , who encouraged me to digress more from strictly technical topics. Thus I was going through some old email looking for anything off-the-wall and I ran into this Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 11, 2004 11:17 AM by Eric Lippert | 26 Comments Filed under: Rants, Non-computer

• A Grammatical Aside

  I just wrote in a comment to my previous entry, "The ability to rate one's knowledge of a subject accurately is strongly correlated with one's knowledge." Wait a minute. "One's"??? Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 02, 2003 6:48 PM by Eric Lippert | 28 Comments Filed under: Rants, Non-computer, English Usage