By GW on 12/08/2011
I had a question for PayPal, so thought I’d try their chatbot, virtual assistant Sarah-PayPal. I asked if there was a way to cancel a withdrawal that’s in pending status. I learned that there is not. Darn! While I was chatting with my electronic friend, I asked something about fees. She directed me to the [...]
Posted in Funny web stuff, Humor, Social Media Tagged bot, chat, chatbot, customer service, Humor, PayPal, Sarah, virtual assistant
By GW on 08/10/2010
Google doesn’t have a track record for giving Gmail users an option to sort their emails by column, so it isn’t a big surprise that they don’t help us in that regard when it comes to the Android Market. That’s a shame, because helping people find what they’re looking for is supposed to be their [...]
Posted in Android, Mobile, Shopping, Social Media, Techie Tagged Android, apps, cyrket, garden references, google, market, mobile, smartphone, tech, vibrant
By GW on 04/25/2010
Howie and I saw Burpee’s new TV commercial today. It’s a terrific ad! I haven’t gotten around to downloading it and embedding it here, and I can’t find it elsewhere, so just check it out at the link I gave. It depicts a woman wearing a flowing blue dress, strolling through her garden. She kneels [...]
Posted in DIY, Gardening, Social Media, Techie, TV shows Tagged 2010, ads, advertising, Android, blackberry, burpee, cellphone, commercial, Gardening, picture, seeds, smartphone, takes, woman
By GW on 02/11/2010
This winter has been a bear. So much for global warming. I think all the recent snow is beautiful, but I am so glad we haven’t experienced a raging albino crapfest, as James Lileks dubbed such snowstorms on Twitter back in December. Our friends in Frederick, MD are buried after the week’s snowfall and much [...]
Posted in Current Events, Domestic stuff, Photography, Social Media, Techie Tagged Humor, lileks, site update, snowstorm, spring, weather, widget
By GW on 01/24/2010
My friend Larry sent me a funny story today. During a recent password audit at a company, it was found that a blond receptionist was using the following password: MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofySacramento When asked why she had such a long password, she said she was told that it had to be at least 8 characters long and [...]
Posted in Humor, jokes, Social Media, Techie Tagged internet, online, passwords, safety, security
By GW on 10/16/2009
I’m so glad to see the lists function coming to Twitter! Maybe with these, I won’t have to use third-party solutions* so much just to manage and filter. That said, I have a observations and suggestions: Let us add list members via a form with auto-complete. Don’t make us slog through pages of people we’re [...]
Posted in Social Media Tagged beta, echofon, firefox, groups, lists, organization, seesmic, tags, timeline, tweet, twitter, twitterfox
