Jay Lagare

Customer Service Hotlines

By Jay Lagare on Monday, July 26, 2010

If you’ve been dealing with companies long enough, you will notice a notable decline in their customer service. It has become impersonal and less of a service. Nowhere is this more apparent than with the so-called customer service hotline.

First off, it’s not exactly a hotline. A hotline is supposedly a direct and immediate telephone linkup, especially between heads of government, as for use in a crisis. But with most customer service hotlines you get a busy or unavailable signal. Good luck on your crisis.

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Snake: YouTube Edition

By Jay Lagare on Saturday, July 24, 2010

Everybody with one of those classic monochrome Nokia phones would know Snake, that game where you control a snake going around the screen consuming apples which in turn makes the snake longer and longer and making it harder and harder to consume more apples. It was quite useful when you’re waiting and bored.

Now if you’re watching YouTube and you have extremely slow Internet connectivity (like when you’re using Sun “Broadband” Wireless) you will be waiting and bored a lot. Worry not, as I discovered just today, the cool dudes at YouTube apparently programmed in Snake in their Flash-based player. Just press any of the arrow keys when the rotating buffering animation comes up on the player screen. Have fun!

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2011 Hyundai Genesis Coupe

By Jay Lagare on Monday, July 19, 2010

On my way from Servitek, I dropped by a Hyundai dealership along the way. I checked out the Genesis Coupe on display and I noticed that it seemed different from the one I saw last Saturday. This got me curious and, after a few minutes of searching, I learned Hyundai has come out with the 2011 model year Genesis Coupe.

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Flat Tire

By Jay Lagare on Monday, July 19, 2010

As we were about to leave for the office, I noticed that my rear left tire was deflated. I looked and saw a screw embedded deep in the tread. You DON’T remove embedded objects from your deflated tire so I just tried inflating the tire with my handy lighter air pump and thankfully the tire seemed to hold air reasonably well enough to let me drive to the office.

But I wasn’t about to let it stay that way for long so I left work early and went to the nearest Goodyear Servitek branch where the service guy cold patched the tire. He even replaced the missing tire inflator valve of one of my tires. As always, great service from Goodyear Servitek.

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Kill Zone 2

By Jay Lagare on Thursday, July 15, 2010

Finished Kill Zone 2. It was supposed to be my second game after Assassin’s Creed II but back then, I couldn’t find a copy at DataBlitz. I did find one copy at Brochiere but it was selling for P3800 or a similarly unreasonable price. So I didn’t get it. A few months later, I finally found a copy at Data Blitz for P1400 or so. Patience sure is rewarded.