Tonight we finished off the Christmas box of petits fours and asked our four year old (aka “The Candy Ninja”) to throw the box away. As soon as we did I knew what would happen next. He quickly grabbed the box, looked over his should back at us, then opened the box to make sure mommy & daddy weren’t having him throw away perfectly good candy. Too funny.
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What an unpleasant surprise from Google’s Gmail service.
I have been using Gmail for YEARS & even paid for the storage upgrade and have never had an isssue. Tonight while checking my email it suddenly kicked me out for “Unusual Activity”.
Looking at the list, #4 is the only thing it can be because I do not do #1, #2 or #3 and #5 is irrelevant in this case.
My account is open at home (in Chrome & Firefox, same IP address), at my office (in Chrome & Firefox, same IP address) & on my Android phone. This is how it always is and always has been, so I’m not sure what’s different about tonight.
The strange thing is that everything else works & iGoogle even shows the new messages (but won’t let me view them).
To make matters worse, Google makes it next to impossible to contact them about issues. So since they like new content so much I figured I’d oblige them and write a post about it.
All of this to say, Google is now on my Naughty List.
Has anyone else experienced this before? If so, what was the outcome?
In the meantime, I luckily have everything going to a normal POP3 account which I check with Mozilla Thunderbird.
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We will have wine samples courtesy of International Wine Markets.
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Via the WSJ:
Serbia’s Novak Djokovic won his second Australian Open tennis title Sunday, breezing past Britain’s Andy Murray in straight sets.
The third-seeded Mr. Djokovic beat Mr. Murray 6-4, 6-2, 6-3 in what was the first Grand Slam final in three years without either Rafael Nadal or Roger Federer.
A victory for Mr. Murray would have given him his first Grand Slam title and ended Britain’s near 75-year drought in men’s singles Grand Slams.
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Just as firefighters were investigating the reported smell of a natural-gas odor … they were caught in a series of explosions.
“It was about five major explosions this morning; it was probably two-three minutes apart.”
“Shortly thereafter, within a couple of seconds, a manhole cover near the Athenaeum which sits behinds some bushes up against the building also blew,” said IFD Captain Rita Burris.
A total of 5 manhole covers blew off.
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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – Thomas Hardy has been charged with murder for the death of IMPD Officer David Moore.
Moore was shot four times during a Sunday morning traffic stop. Moore passed away Wednesday morning from injuries suffered in the shooting.
Hardy is due in court Friday when he will officially be charged
Such a sad story.
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If you haven’t heard yet, the news is out that Taco Bell’s “Taco Meat Filling” isn’t 100% beef and there’s a class action lawsuit about it. The lawsuit claims that this so-called “meat” is actually only 36% beef plus a bunch of other stuff.
So Taco Bell gets upset and decides to launch their own countersuit for false statements (no surprise there of course).
This part of Taco Bell’s response worries me a bit though: “We start with 100 percent USDA-inspected beef. Then we simmer it in our proprietary blend of seasonings and spices to give our seasoned beef its signature Taco Bell taste and texture.”
What do you mean you “start with”? What I want to know is what you end with. Even if it turns out to be 60% or even 70% beef, that’s still a whole lot of filler.
Regardless of the outcome of all of this I can say without a doubt, IN MY OPINION, that Taco Bell’s “ground beef” is not that great, and a good 50% of the time it as returned in the form of diarrhea an hour or so later (I wish I was kidding). Thus when I do go I normally get a chicken burrito (please, oh, please, I do hope there isn’t a “chicken” lawsuit in the works…if there is, don’t tell me about it).
But food content & quality aside, I think Taco Bell has two much bigger issues at hand: employee competence & customer service.
At the Taco Bell’s in my area they are consistently slow, out of items (especially in the dual & triple branded stores with Pizza Hut & KFC) & it’s truly a crap shot if they get your order correct, especially in the drive thru.
In regards to customer service, I have put up numerous tweets over the past few years and wrote some blog posts in the past. No response.
Sure, I could take the time to go to their website to file a complaint (which I have before), but it’s not worth it if I have to do it every other time. That means the issues are not being addressed and corrected. I don’t complain to get attention or a $5 gift card. I complain to try to get things fixed because I actually want to be a customer.
If I send out a tweet about McDonald’s I get a response back. If I put up a blog post about an issue I had at Cheeseburger in Paradise, I get an email from them and a call from the district manager. These guys get it and I wish there were more out there like them.
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Via The Wall Street Journal:
An explosion at Russia’s busiest airport has killed at least 23 and injured 130, Russia’s state news agency has reported.
The blast took place in the baggage pick-up area of Domodedovo Airport, Russia’s top investigative agency said.
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And if bacon wasn’t enough, Sun King Brewery will be doing a beer tasting for the event as well!
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