Taiwan’s expedited mail delivery service
I’ve been using Taiwan’s expedited mail delivery service to the UK. Costs about 4x the standard price but things get to the UK pretty quickly. I wish I had known about it before.
Needing Cloud Storage… but which service?
I really would like to have some cloud storage, but the ideal seems to be a cross between Google’s generous space allowance, and Dropbox’s storage/pricing. I love the Dropbox system of autosyncing data on different PCs, but I can’t figure out for the life of me how 100GB of space is going to be enough….
Should you do customer service? Not just recommended, but essential!
I’ve done so many different customer service jobs from when I started working. It’s been quite a whiz… but I think it’s much better to learn to work with people who are customers. So here’s the list: 1. part-time waiter 2. bookshop assistant 3. English Teacher 4. Boss of a business 5. Sales Consultant 6….
Would you buy an ESP – extended service plan?
If you’ve ever bought anything expensive, you’ll likely have been asked if you want some kind of extended service plan for that item. For the most part, the stores have a good reason to sell the plan: it’s mostly additional profit for them, since the phone is already under warranty for the first year anyway….
Thomas Harley Sherlock: Honored for his service to architecture
HB, MBE, originally uploaded by obblogatory. My good friend’s father recently was honored by the Queen for his lifelong service to architecture, conservation, and to the community in Islington, London†in this year’s honors list. Sarah Jane Sherlock commented “Needless to say, he is absolutely thrilled. As he says, he didn’t do all the work…
30K kms and counting: Ed goes for his service
Funny thing happened last weekend. Or rather last last weekend! I don’t drive Ed very often… in fact once or twice a week is normal. Last week I didn’t drive more than once. So when I forgot to turn off the lights inside, the surpise was rather obvious: tada, flat battery! Fortunately, a nice young…
SKY.FM – What a wonderful service
It’s rare that I advertise services that I like, but I have to say I’m doing a trial subscription for SKY.FM radio. It’s $2 for 2 days to see what it’s like. Despite having a sluggish connection, the music quality sounds that much brighter in higher definitions. I can listen in mp3 streams upto 192Kb,…
Lousy Hotmail Service… is FREE really worth it?
I have all but stopped using HOTMAIL because of its slowness, lockin, and poor filtering. I still use the ID for MSN, but otherwise I have deleted my account twice. MS policy is quite simple, let the product atrophy until such times as its use is seriously enough curtailed that users either sign up for…