The Geeky Brit

New Mexico Lawmaker Petitions to Restore Pluto’s Planet Status: “The state of New Mexico State could effectively secede from the astronomical community if a resolution to call Pluto a planet is passed.

Come on folks, isn’t this being a little too sentimental? In the big picture of the world wide escalation of war, peace in the middle east, increasing global poverty levels and hunger, and the inordinate amount of time it is taking my order girls scout cookies to arrive, how much does this really matter?

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In the space of a few days I have received two gifts from Microsoft. I received Windows Vista Home Premium, and Office 2003 Professional!

It amazes me how much power a blog can have, I am presuming that Bill was reading my blog, as is his want, and noticed a couple of my blog entries (OneCare, Apple). He obviously decided to appease my frustrations, and send me these “wonderful” pieces of software…

…Or it was that phone survey I partook in a few months ago, coupled with a free upgrade to vista when I purchased my wife’s shiny new laptop…

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A view of Ripon surveillance: “RIPON — Livingston leaders got a camera lens’ view of this city from the passenger seat of a police cruiser.”

(Via Merced Sun-Star.com — Local.)

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Mr Software and Beer writes on his blog about Apple’s great level customer service – and adversely how customer service trends in general tend to be taking a downward spiral.

I am so with him on this. I come from a land where customer service synonyms include rude, disrespectful and lacking. I too really dislike the trend here in the USA to be less trusting. It goes against the technology curve, as I am very sure there are solutions out there that adequately replace the annoying “exit greeter” at BestBuy.

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