Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Pygmy Musicians Invited to Sleep at Zoo
"Artists invited to perform at an annual music festival in the Republic of Congo were lodged in hotels, except for a group of Pygmy musicians who were instead housed at the zoo. Congolese officials, who invited the band of Pygmy musicians to perform at the Festival of Pan-African Music, or Fespam, said their intention was to place them in a "familiar setting."" More
Labels: incompetence, mistakes, music
Monday, May 7, 2007
Raw McChicken Sandwich
Tuesday, January 9, 2007
I will never get my ThinkPad
Early last December (the 5th to be exact) I placed a hefty order for a top-of-the-line IBM ThinkPad. The estimated build time was 5 to 10 days and I got 2 day shipping. I wanted the laptop by the end of the year and I wanted to write it off as a business expense for 2006. The estimated ship date of December 19 came and went. I emailed customer support asking what the delay was and got no response. I called customer support and they told me that not all the parts were in stock to build the laptop. I was upset because I needed the laptop for a couple of year-end meetings but figured it would still ship before the end of the year and I'd be able to write it off. Then the estimated ship date jumped to 1/9/07. So much for the tax write off. Yesterday I looked at my order and saw that the estimated ship date was back to 12/19/06. I emailed customer support asking what was going on and what the real ship date was going to be. I got no response. Today is 1/9/07 and I logged in to check my order status and the estimated ship date is now 2/7/07. I immediately called customer support and canceled the order. They had no explanation why it would take 2 months to build and ship a laptop.Labels: incompetence, technology
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