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08/18/2010 11:58 #52469
sage advice07/06/2010 23:26 #52116
#nationalgrid is totally creeping me outOur power went out yesterday for a little over an hour. Being the kind of twirp that I am, I checked National Grid's website. It turns out that they have a website that tells you if your power is out. There is a website to tell you if you do not have electricity. Also, the website does not work on my smartphone, which is the only possible way I can think of to visit the website if your power is out. So if you are interested in the information on this website, you are by definition unable to access it. This is funny, right? So I tweeted it.
So it turns out that National Grid has a cyberstalker on Twitter, who is probably actually a real person but I sort of doubt that her real name is Emily. And Miss Emily Grid kind of didn't get the humor of the situation but I'm okay with that.
Reading the other tweets she responded to today, it probably caught her off-guard that I was being a small noodge rather than a huge dickhead. But that's kind of besides the point, really. What's more important is what kind of a middle-management knob would think it's a good idea to cyberstalk your own customers? It's creepy! I don't want to live in a world where you can't complain about the electric company without hurting poor Emily's feelings.
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true fact: national grid has a website to tell you if your power is out. true fact 2: it doesn't work on phones.
So it turns out that National Grid has a cyberstalker on Twitter, who is probably actually a real person but I sort of doubt that her real name is Emily. And Miss Emily Grid kind of didn't get the humor of the situation but I'm okay with that.
@zobar2 Yes, we do have an outage website at
Reading the other tweets she responded to today, it probably caught her off-guard that I was being a small noodge rather than a huge dickhead. But that's kind of besides the point, really. What's more important is what kind of a middle-management knob would think it's a good idea to cyberstalk your own customers? It's creepy! I don't want to live in a world where you can't complain about the electric company without hurting poor Emily's feelings.
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07/04/2010 11:33 #52096
putting this out thereAm I the only person in the entire universe who received a reasonable science education from parochial schools? Miseducating children so egregiously really ought to be a crime, but is this really becoming the norm rather than the exception?
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KeithT - 07/04/10 12:02
It is astounding to me how ignorance is so boundless within the mind of the evangelical theist. Forcful indoctrination and obvious brain washing is all that is left when facts are now endlessly at your finger tips. This is child abuse. This is mind rape.
It is astounding to me how ignorance is so boundless within the mind of the evangelical theist. Forcful indoctrination and obvious brain washing is all that is left when facts are now endlessly at your finger tips. This is child abuse. This is mind rape.
07/02/2010 11:01 #52083
windows security = the bombAn actual dialog box that I actually got when logging into one of my company's actual servers.
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paul - 07/02/10 13:23
Wow, I didn't know dialogue boxes could be that long in windows. If you try and make one that long in IE in javascript it gets truncated. As for the password requirements, it is annoying but I guess it is better than having your password hacked. Way to many people choose things like ftp123, etc.
Wow, I didn't know dialogue boxes could be that long in windows. If you try and make one that long in IE in javascript it gets truncated. As for the password requirements, it is annoying but I guess it is better than having your password hacked. Way to many people choose things like ftp123, etc.
jim - 07/02/10 11:03
windows4fun
windows4fun
It seems really odd. Where things get odder is the question I'm going to ask, Can you Check other people's power? But see if you can than that would explain the why it doesn't work on a phone. Someone could get in a car and drive around looking for people who lost power as a way to victimize them.
Emily and (e:lukamagnotta) could totally be cyberbuddies!!
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Let's just hope she doesn't start a freakin journal over this, lol.
The airlines all do this too:
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Looks like ~50% of tweets are in response to complaints.