a multi-tasked stream of consciousness or perhaps just emails to myself
I’ve had this problem intermittently for a while now and it’s driving me crazy. Of course it only happens when I’m out of the office on VPN. Here are the steps to reproduce it:
Standard procedure right? Sure except my Outlook seems to enjoy getting stuck in Offline mode with absolutely no way to get it back. Before you suggest selecting Go Online from the file menu, have a looksee …
Notice anything missing? Exactly.
I signed up for Blaze Mobile over the summer and while I have received a number of emails from the company touting how wonderful they are, I have yet to receive my NFC sticker – the core product they offer.
When I questioned this I received the following:
We are sorry for the inconvenience. Unfortunately, our bank requires us to mail the stickers with a plastic prepaid card which are on back-order. As soon as they are in, we will mail both to you.
In the meantime, you can use 90% of the Blaze Wallet without the sticker including the following just to name a few:
- You can get your account balance and receipts from over 8,000 financial institutions
- You can load your reward cards for hotels, airlines, rental cards and get your point balances
- You can purchase movie tickets
- You can search for restaurants and other points of interest and get turn-by-turn directions
- You can create expense reports (iPhone version only)
Last I checked, there’s nothing unique or beneficial about doing any of this stuff with Blaze. Â I would not even consider Blaze the source for any of this activity … The only semi-interesting bit is the expense report though it’s highly unlikely that it would work with our corporate system and most importantly what would I be expensing without a way to pay??
I get that NFC payments are still largely considered new and mainly in tests outside of a few cases like retail and transit cases  – at least in NYC.  What I don’t like though is how a product is openly marketed as real and prevalent with little to no “customer” communication about where things really stand.  When I signed up there was no mention of a backlog on pre-paid cards … and come on really?  Is it that hard for whatever bank is backing this to issue a card?
Thought I might check what pricing options were available to me as an original iPhone customer …
It’s hard to make up better errors. 16 hours and 40 minutes??
Dear Nikon –
Thanks for absolutely destroying all photographic evidence of the birth of my son. Your failure to actually save any images shot (close to 100) has ruined any opportunity for a permanent record of this wonderful occasion. There are no do-overs, no next times. This was it and while it certainly looked like most of my pictures were terrific when captured and quickly reviewed on-screen, The D70s appears to have corrupted the CompactFlash card and there are NO PICTURES. The most basic function failed.
Thanks for nothing.
Jonathan
GMail started acting flaky last night but today I have not been able to log in a single time. I’ve gotten timeouts from the web UI, been unable to connect via mobile and even received a report from Nokia Messaging that they were unable to connect to push my mail. A quick post on Twitter and Facebook and it seems I’m the only one with an issue … not cool.
Google seems to be taking lessons from Microsoft on Error Message Details .. here’s as much as I can glean from the failed login attempts:
Detailed Technical Info
Numeric Code: 17
In general the new iPhoto is really an excellent upgrade. There are a slew of interface changes and I am actually giving a lot of consideration to moving back to iPhoto from Aperture. That said, the new Faces feature definitely needs some work. It seems to require a lot of training to start recognizing things and does not like different angled shots of the same person. And then of course there are things like this:
