Archives in Category: Technology

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Citibank

Posted on October 17, 2024

While I was in Chicago last weekend, I lost my credit card, the one I use for almost everything. Like the hotel. And the special spectator area with places to sit and buffets of food. And the fancy coffee.

At

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FOMO

Posted on September 12, 2024

In the old days, we called them phobias: arachnophobia was fear of spiders; claustrophobia was fear of being trapped in small spaces; agoraphobia was fear of being embarrassed.

But with social networks running amok, there are a multitude of new

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Telephone Anyone?

Posted on September 6, 2024

I grew up in the era when the telephone was the main communication tool. Long before cell phones, texting, emails, tablets, or Dick Tracy watches.

As a teenager, I spent hours on a clunky black phone that sat on the

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Life Is Complicated

Posted on August 15, 2024

Historian Heather Cox Richardson wrote yesterday that the White House is trying to combat junk fees, excessive paperwork, hold times, and other ways companies “deliberately design processes to be burdensome in order to deter people from getting a refund or

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Three for Two

Posted on August 2, 2024

Fifteen years ago, when we moved to our current home, we bought three brand new televisions and had them installed. Given there are only two people in our family it might seem like overkill.

Yesterday, the one television we never

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Streaming

Posted on June 2, 2024

We have subscribed to three streaming channels, if that’s what they’re called, for a year or more. In that time, we’ve spent $40 a month and watched one program on one of the channels. This doesn’t seem like a wise

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NYT

Posted on May 29, 2024

Whether you like the political point of view of The New York Times or not, the newspaper deserves credit for adjusting its subscription fees to meet subscribers’ needs.

Case in point: I had an introductory offer of $8 billed to

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Vacations

Posted on April 18, 2024

I’ve been home from Boston about 24 hours and have begun to assume the mantle of my daily life in Benton Harbor. It’s a comfortable life: we have more money than month; we’re entering the most gorgeous time of the

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FrankenSteinway

Posted on April 1, 2024

You’ve heard of them: the leaders in the piano world. Steinway, Baldwin, Yamaha, Kawai. And, if you got the money, Bosendorfer. You’ve heard of the second tier: Everett, Essex, and Celviano. Maybe others too.

But if you’ve ever heard or

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I Am Not Alone

Posted on March 6, 2024

We are Costco members who have the top tier credit card. It’s a Visa that is honored at other establishments besides Costco. And every time we use it – which is often – we get a rebate that accumulates over

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