The Haps With Herb

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Category: Websites

  • Customer Service

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    Herb

    Now here is a lesson in customer service and positive PR that some websites would do well to learn from.  In my last entry I mentioned, sort of “en passant,” that Carter and I had started our website, the long-awaited, much-anticipated “Republic of Bob” on a website called Wetpaint.com.  I referred to my disdain…

  • Title Goes Up Here

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    Herb

    So, I was at my favorite trivia site, Gullible.info and found this little tidbit: “.18 percent of blog posts indexed by Google blog search begin with the word “so”.” So I’m sorry, I just don’t have time to do much writing of any sort, even though I have been so graciously “Phaved” by J…

  • Please De-Lurk Yourself

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    Herb

    First, thanks FTS, for adding me to your blogroll.  In my opinion it is always an honor to be added to someone’s but to be added to a writer’s is the bigtime for me. I have added a blogroll.  There are 33 entries there so far and I know I missed…

  • E-Mail Etiquette

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    Herb

    Here are a couple of things I’ve been wondering about lately. Is there an appropriate number of responses to an e-mail? When you e-mail someone and begin a discussion, he or she will write back, you answer with a question, they respond, you ask something else, in what you suppose…

  • An Idea

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    Herb

    Okay, so my computer has gone from being so dead I can’t even get a cursor to back to as normal as it ever was, by itself. I still don’t expect to have much time to write after today because my parents will be here. You point out to me…

  • What’s Going On

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    Herb

    Hi everyone. My computer is on it’s last legs and would not boot up for several days. Abby tinkered with it and got it to start but how long it will last is anyone’s guess. I just wanted to tell you all what was going on in case you were…

  • Freedom of Speech on the WWW

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    Herb

    First, weight updates. Savannah now weighs 7 lbs 3 oz and I have lost 7 lbs. I am down to the weight I had started out at the last time I did this, which is 235. So, 7 lbs in approximately 4 weeks isn’t too bad. Margaret pointed out that…

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