{"id":26659,"date":"2012-02-24T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T04:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/24\/tweets-from-2012-02-24.html"},"modified":"2012-02-29T08:04:20","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T15:04:20","slug":"tweets-from-2012-02-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/24\/tweets-from-2012-02-24.html","title":{"rendered":"Tweets from 2012-02-24"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"aktt_tweet_digest\">\n<li>Dear Xfinity, 10 minutes on hold to tech support is probably NOT the time I want to be hearing cheerful adverts for Xfinity tech support. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Three_Star_Dave\/statuses\/173077294917750785\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Dear Xfinity, given home internet is out and I&#039;ve been on hold 15 mins so far, nothing better to do than sit on Twitter to bitch about it <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Three_Star_Dave\/statuses\/173079462752161794\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Dear Xfinity, once I got thru to someone, they were polite, if unhelpful. Let&#039;s see how your service tech does this pm. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Three_Star_Dave\/statuses\/173080880233971714\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Dear Xfinity, you deserve a thank-you note from McD&#039;s, since I had to leave home and use Internet at my local one. Mmmm, hash browns &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Three_Star_Dave\/statuses\/173091775668432897\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Wait &#8230; did Twitter change their page design again? <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Three_Star_Dave\/statuses\/173091898741882880\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Back from McD&#039;s, laptop barely lasting thru status reporting. Home Internet still fubar; will patiently await technician in 3-5 hrs. Rrg. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Three_Star_Dave\/statuses\/173124758928506880\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Home internet is back up, but phone rep said to have tech come out anyway. And so I will. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Three_Star_Dave\/statuses\/173144675836891137\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Okay, so now I&#039;m not sure of what &quot;Twitter&quot; version I&#039;m seeing. IE on work laptop shows something completely different from Chrome at home. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Three_Star_Dave\/statuses\/173161258487529472\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Possible trouble for Boulder Trader Joe&#039;s, or someone looking for a sizeable buy-out? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/business\/ci_20017970?source=pop_section_business\" title=\"\n                        \n                        \n                            \n                            \n                          \n                        \n                            \n                            \n                                \n                                    \n                                    Boulder Applebee&#039;s lease could put crimp in Trader Joe&#039;s timeline - The Denver Post\n                                                                \n                            \n                          \n                        \n                        \">Link<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Three_Star_Dave\/statuses\/173165952882573312\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Okay, different versions of Twitter are &#8230; machine\/IP-dependent?  IE on my home machine like Chrome, but on my work machine it&#039;s different. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Three_Star_Dave\/statuses\/173180772977623040\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>RT @<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/CityOfHeroes\" class=\"aktt_username\">CityOfHeroes<\/a>: 1st Place Winner of the &quot;Failed Hero\/Villain&quot; Costume Contest is Theater Popcorn Man! Congrats! <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/CityOfHeroes\/status\/173167097134841856\/photo\/1\" title=\"(twitter.com)\">Link<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Three_Star_Dave\/statuses\/173181781661593600\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Comcast tech has arrived to make all things right forever! <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Three_Star_Dave\/statuses\/173182112445382656\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Comcast tech is forging thru the snow in the back yard. Diagnostics indicate possible cable issue. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Three_Star_Dave\/statuses\/173188582842974208\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Now Comcast guy is forging in the snow around the neighbor&#039;s house, since that&#039;s where the big cable block is. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Three_Star_Dave\/statuses\/173190619404050432\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Okay, now he&#039;s in yet another yard. Snow is not making this any easier, of course. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Three_Star_Dave\/statuses\/173194109341806592\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>After much backyard slogging, Comcast tech says it&#039;s a line problem somewhere beyond. Which is a good thing, if not immediately resolvable. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Three_Star_Dave\/statuses\/173204694989148160\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Good because not a house rewiring or yard retrenching issue. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Three_Star_Dave\/statuses\/173205002402267136\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Xfinity, 10 minutes on hold to tech support is probably NOT the time I want to be hearing cheerful adverts for Xfinity tech support. # Dear Xfinity, given home internet is out and I&#039;ve been on hold 15 mins so far, nothing better to do than sit on Twitter to bitch about it # &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/24\/tweets-from-2012-02-24.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tweets from 2012-02-24&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tweets","category-my-computer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26682,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/26\/tweets-from-2012-02-26.html","url_meta":{"origin":26659,"position":0},"title":"Tweets from 2012-02-26","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 26-Feb-12 9:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Internet service thru #Xfinity out (again, still, some more). 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