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You're the one who named her after an explosion and you wondered why she went off on you?
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 good point
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Software Zen: delete this;
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"Antiquiated" names have been great fashion here in Norway for the last ten or twenty years. Kids are named after their great (great) grandparents, names that haven't been used for sixty to ninety years.
And, Gertrude is far from being an antiquated name in some European cultures.
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Interesting 
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Actually,
My best friend growing up had a single letter as his first name: T
I'm not sure how common this is... he was the only person I ever met with a single letter name.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Was he big, black with a mohawk haircut and called everyone a fool?
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Nah. Dave's old enough his mate's second name is Rex.  (No offence, Dave)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I went to college with a guy named JQ. Confused the heck out of early computer systems.
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TBH, I don't think that a company called ABC should have any say in such matters.
Vested interests, and all that.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I completely missed that. Just glad it wasn't in German
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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The rate at which people are making up names these days it won't be long until kids start getting bullied for having the same name as another kid.
"Yo momma so dumb, she couldn't even think up a name for you and had to copy someone else"
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Dick and C**k are (or rather, used to be) perfectly valid first names in the Netherlands...
We even had a famous television show with an investigator who used to say "the C**k, with C O C K." (his last name when introducing himself, Kok would be a common alternative spelling).
Until we all learned some English that is 
That said, my name is a tool for smoothing out rough surfaces in English 
People rarely make that association though 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Dick and C**k are (or rather, used to be) perfectly valid first names in the Netherlands.
True, but "Dick" was more often spelled "Dik", which is shorter.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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When an Englishman named Steve Cook came to our university, I discretely advised him to use his full first name, Steven, in Norway. He thanked me after I explained to him that Steve Cook sounds exactly like Norwegian "stiv kukk", or stiff c*ck.
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I love when this happens with names
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Kanye West comes to mind, naming his daughter North. North West is her name. True story.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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On most days, the subject line would be saying all that needs to be said. Just thought I'd fill in some details this time around.
Got a call yesterday from a neighbor - for some reason that still escapes me, she's had her residential line changed to a commercial one - and her internet connection at the same time.
Here in Canada, Bell's residential internet service is called Sympatico, so you get an account such as [whoever]@sympatico.ca. In contrast, their business accounts use [whoever]@bellnet.ca.
After the switchover was done (and the Bell service "technician" gone), she realized she could no longer access her sympatico.ca email. She's got important emails going back to 2007, and (of course) customers are still sending new stuff all the time to the only address of hers they know about.
She phones them up, explains the situation, and they inform her bellnet.ca and sympatico.ca "don't really work with each other". They can't give her back her old account. She can't log in. The best she can do apparently is to ask a friend who's on Sympatico (I'm not), have him phone Bell and ask them to link his account with hers (with her authorization), and then he'll be able to forward everything to her new bellnet.ca address.
That's gotta be one of the dumbest suggestions I've heard in a long time. Off the top of my head, that means:
- He's gonna get full access to her email
- All her messages are going to have the same date (the forward date) - good luck finding anything date-based from now on
- People are still going to send her stuff through her old address, which means anything that comes in is still going to have to be forwarded...what, until the end of time?
Bell's level of incompetence keeps reaching new highs all the time - I have no idea why I'm still surprised. My neighbor's not exactly tech savvy (as are most people, in her defense), so I have to put a lot of blame on Bell for not explaining to her ahead of time this was going go happen.
She was already fuming, so I wasn't going to pour oil on that fire by explaining this is why you never use your ISP's email service.
I was reminded of an incident last year when a relative of mine needed my help to reset his email password (again, Sympatico) because somehow it wouldn't let him back him. Easy enough, right? I forget the details, but ultimately the blocker was that I could not find a way to complete the password reset procedure without going around in circles. Ended up phoning Bell--pretty easy they say, just to go the main Bell portal, login with your Bell customer details, and initiate the password reset procedure from there. My relative had never set himself up as a Bell customer (that's apparently not the same thing as the Sympatico account, although the two get linked once this is done). No problem, in order to register as a new user on the portal, just login with your Sympatico account.
As I was trying (in vain) to make the Bell rep understand the problem over the phone, I actually asked him if he was a bot, because otherwise he just had to be the most clueless individual I'd ever spoken to...I rarely lose my cool when dealing with people who are "just doing their jobs", but I was going nowhere with him.
Personally, I dropped Bell as an ISP almost a decade ago and I've never looked back. When people phone me for help with anything to do with Bell, my blood starts boiling before they even start explaining the problem...
Rant over. I'm not sure I wanna check with my neighbor to ask how things went.
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What she should have done is set up her own hosted domain name for her business. It is really inexpensive. She would have to pay an annual fee to the hosting company, but for a business it is a normal operating expense.
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Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that there are some things I just can’t keep up with, the determination to keep up with the things I must keep up with, and the wisdom to find a good RSS feed from someone who keeps up with what I’d like to, but just don’t have the damn bandwidth to handle right now.
© 2009, Rex Hammock
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You're overestimating the needs (and user sophistication) here. By "business", I wasn't inferring there was even a web site involved, and my neighbor's perfectly happy doing business with a generic email address rather than anything named after her business.
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My wife never set up a web page, either. She owns and operates a small ranch, raising goats. The private domain gives us control over our email and gives us an air of legitimacy when we deal with other businesses.
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Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that there are some things I just can’t keep up with, the determination to keep up with the things I must keep up with, and the wisdom to find a good RSS feed from someone who keeps up with what I’d like to, but just don’t have the damn bandwidth to handle right now.
© 2009, Rex Hammock
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So you'd like to see the end of Bell?
That might perturb some people.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: That might perturb some people.
Most people in Canada would rejoice.
It's more of a general sense of deeply-seated (but justified) hatred. I don't know of anyone who doesn't despise them.
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The level of organizational stupidity is astounding. I'll wager that there are people in Bell Canada that know this is a problem.
Last week my natural gas provider sent me my monthly email informing me that this month's statement was available. Since I'm on auto-pay, I don't usually login to my account. I was curious about my usage, so this month I did, where upon I learned I was behind in my payments - by months. Huh?
Digging further, it appears that their database turns off auto-pay if you change payment accounts. The web site doesn't tell you this, it just happens. I looked diligently in their email - no mention of my account being late. I suppose the heat turning off might clue me in.
So I wrote them a nice customer feedback email explaining that their system was flawed and needed some corrections. Customer service informed me that just because I have auto-pay, wait for it, I still need to verify it's working. 
They missed the entire point of my email. I'm reading about how Marriott, Dell, Dunkin Donuts, Home Depot, Target, etc have all had recent data breaches. Sort of explains why my card # has been stolen 6 times in the last 3 years.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: Sort of explains why my card # has been stolen 6 times in the last 3 years.
See? At least someone's trying to get transactions processed against your credit card...
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