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I had a bit of an odd experience with PC Financial this year. Frustrated by this, I wrote them to describe my experience.

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This July, I rented a car from Avis in San Diego. It was a pretty poor experience. So, I wrote them a complaint letter.

Besides writing the letter itself, I thought I’d have fun. In the spirit of Yours is a Very Bad Hotel, I proudly present “How NOT to rent a car”:

Here’s the letter itself:
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I don’t know if hotel pricing is as broken as airline pricing, but FareCast for hotels will be interesting regardless.

My session is Putting the Quality in Quality Web Applications.

Here’s the blurb:

A misspelled word, stray pixel or errant semicolon can erase your data, confuse your customers or put you on the front page of the New York Times. Learn what’s important when it comes to web app quality and how to make your site test itself while you sip margaritas.

This is going to be a presentation, not a panel. I’ll cover diverse aspects of web application testing — from CSS bugs to typos to buffer overflows. What are the most common problems? How can you fix them? How can you avoid them? How can your computer do the work for you—how can you automate as much of this as possible? Lots of demos, code samples, real-world best practices.

Attention people of the world. Please learn how to spell résumé. It has two accent aigus — one on each “e.”

The HTML for this is résumé.

If your computer/email program cannot handle accented characters reliably, “resume” is acceptable.

However, “résume” and “resumé” are never correct.

Thank you.