The Insomniac Coder

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Since it is painfully obvious that Google doesn't care about Blogger as much as they used to, I don't see the point in running a blog here when everyone that reads my content is already reading it off Google Plus. Effective immediately I am going to put to sleep all of my blogs except for  PedroJavier.Org . If you are one of the rare few that actually checks my content here instead of Google Plus, please  circle me .

Source: BlackBerry just "gutted" its salesforce : Well, WTF, it is not like they need sales people, right? Whatever the company makes will just sit on the website and people will flock to it and throw money at them because it is the superior product. If anyone actually calls just forward them to Marketing, it's the same thing as Sales nowadays ... Idiots. And somebody out there, right this second, is going to see this as "oh, nice, so they trimmed a lot of fat and this makes the balance sheet look a lot better!"

And I mean a hellish racket. Nonstop beeping, and this of course triggered a near-meltdown for PJ. Initial online research: a bad part, $97 plus labor. RTFM research: reset the breaker for the stove, see what happens. Outcome: Annoyed kid, power cycled every damn thing in the house trying to find the breaker for the stove, but at least the damn thing is fine.$97 saved, but I still have to figure out how to calm down PJ. Update: 2/2/2016 did it again, but caught it before PJ did. Breaker #4 did the trick but had to do it twice.

This is an update to an article I wrote a couple of years ago , I thought it was time for a refresher. Pedro's Rules of Business Email: 1. Must follow the same standards in place for WRITTEN communications. 2. Spell check the damn thing, please. It is embarrassing to all parties when an email has unnecessary typos. 3. Be concise. Be specific. Write in full sentences. 4. Check your tone. 5. Check the stupid carbon copy and blind copy lists! Then do it again! 6. If you are complaining about an error, make sure the error isn't yours. It makes you look stupid and somebody will eventually dig out the email to use it against you. 7. Provide relevant information. If you are sending a screen capture, also send the URL of the page, so others can replicate it. 8. Don't hit the send button if you are upset. I am sure 99.99% of all email clients in use have a draft feature. 9. Don't hey people, it's rude. Don't dude people, it's st...

Now that's a handful for a title, but that's about what just happened to me: the Verizon FIOS ONT has a built-in battery that it uses as a backup for its phone lines. If there is a power outage, this makes sure that you will be able to use the phone for about 8 hours. It doesn't help the TV and Internet signals, it is simply used for the phones. And if the battery goes bad, or the ONT "thinks" that the battery is bad, the ONT will refuse to power up even if the AC current source is healthy. So there I was, being held hostage by a device that relies on a battery, for a service I don't subscribe to, with healthy AC power and no way to keep my Internet connection up for more than two minutes in a row, and every 5 minutes or so it would drop completely dead until I reset the ONT. And of course, the perfect time of the day for neither of our cell phones to get a decent 3G connection so we could Google it. After about a long miserable hour I was able to fi...