I had a bit of an odd experience with PC Financial this year. Frustrated by this, I wrote them to describe my experience.
Dear Mr. Kalen,
I have been a customer of President’s Choice Financial and President’s Choice Financial MasterCard for many years. In fact, I believe I was one of the earliest customers of President’s Choice Financial MasterCard.
I was highly satisfied with my PC MasterCard—until this year.
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 …
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 …
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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.
Following up on an earlier story, George Bush appointed Lauren Caitlin Upton as a foreign policy advisor. (credit: GH)
Apparently Lauren Upton is one of the 20% of Americans who don’t own maps. Or something. From the Miss Teen USA Pageant (24 August 2007): “Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can’t locate the U.S. on a world map. Why do you think this is?†Miss South Carolina, Lauren Caitlin Upton: “I personally …
Update: after this posting appeared, Mr. Stewart’s office contacted me. They tell me they have now removed my address from their mailing list. …but he is a spammer. We keep getting cards in the mail from him, despite repeated requests to be removed from his mailing list.
Sen. Barbara Boxer is having email problems:
I moved last year, and I had to change my address everywhere. As I did this, I kept track of where, hoping to make the process easier next time. Forgetting organizations is annoying. The list I’ve compiled is below the jump. Where possible, I’ve included a link to the web page where you can make …
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