Christmas is hitting me later and later each year, an inverse movement to the increasing early start of the commercial festivities which now begin their breathless “Buy!” message somewhere around Halloween. This year the holiday came about 7:30 Christmas Eve morning.  redozdachs, his brother Ric (sic ) from Reno, and I walked into Sear’s, the traditional downtown greasy spoon, for breakfast. It was finally holiday time. I let go of the real world during our eggs and hashbrowns fare. Afterwords, we strolled like tourists around Union Square. We gawked at the trees, lights, and early-opening stores offering one final chance [...]

I cannot update websites hosted at Webmasters.com from my RCN cable ISP service.  We have been updating these websites from RCN since we started RCN service about six months ago.  Other combinations of ISP's and hosting services work just fine. Any techie detectives like a challenge or have ideas?   The Gory, Gory Details

The chirpy ABC radio newsreader’s lead story was the death of comic Richard Pryor. Only after playing a taped bit of a Pryor routine did ABC segue to a mention that former Senator Eugene McCarthy died at 89. I don’t mean to minimize the death of Richard Pryor. Yet, the entertainment-focused priorities of a supposed news report is jarring.  […]

It seems that when it's time to ease back into the land of the living and blogging, one of these goodies lights the way back to the LJ home (this time with the guidance of airporter). I am gratified at my relatively high rating. I don't think I deserve it.

In a misguided focus on cost, service companies make it difficult for callers to reach live human beings. The philosophical issues involved in erecting barriers to service is a subject of another posting. This entry merely points to a solution. Paul English has posted the numbers to push to reach live humans at many different companies. Use his IVR cheatsheet to talk to a live person. (I just hope the person is live AND not living in India!) And, check out http://clicheideas.com/amazon.htm to find phone numbers to use for Amazon.com.

I told my business clients and contacts that I would resume a regular publication schedule for my on-line newsletter.  This incarnation has short articles which point to the blog I started up as biz_ozdachs. I said I'd publish twice a month. I thought the email/blog was a great idea until the reality of the need for content reached my consciousness... Here it is the 26th, I've been in Puerto Vallarta not thinking about business, and the second November emailing is due the first part of the week. So, I'm typing away this weekend on a few technology tips and Internet [...]