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jhorwitz
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System administrator, Perl hacker, author of "Unix System Management Primer Plus" (SAMS 2003), mod_parrot, extproc_perl, Authen::Krb4, Authen::Krb5.
reversethis-{gro.gnihsams} {ta} {ffej}
http://www.smashing.org/
System administrator, Perl hacker, author of "Unix System Management Primer Plus" (SAMS 2003), mod_parrot, extproc_perl, Authen::Krb4, Authen::Krb5.
Saturday February 26, 2005
02:27 PM
die if $address =~ /box/;
My cell phone finally died last night and by some miraculous alignment of the planets, today was the first day I was eligible for a free upgrade phone. So I go to order my new phone on Verizon's site, and as part of the last step, I enter my shipping address. It bombs out, saying they can't deliver to a P.O. box. Um, I live on a street, not a P.O. box!
After retrying 2 or 3 times, I realized what was happening. My street name is Boxford, and some idiot programmer decided that anything with the string "box" in it was a P.O. box. Brilliant!
Anyway, instead of taking hours to explain this problem to some customer service rep who doesn't deal with website problems, I went to the nearest Verizon store and got my phone there. I ended up paying $20 more for an accessory package (car charger, etc.) that was cheaper online, but I'll be writing Verizon to complain about that.
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