September 2008 – GeekTieGuy

A Geekdad Experiment: What Gears Do On a Bicycle

27September2008GeekTieGuyPersonal

I did this the other day with my kids, and they thought it was a lot of fun. It’s a simple experiment to do with your kids when they ask what the gears on a bicycle do. You’ll need: A bike with gears Sidewalk chalk A measuring tape or stick Paper for keeping a table

Exemplary customer service at JanSport

15September2008GeekTieGuy1 CommentOpinion, Personal

This is an example of how customer service is done right. We bought a JanSport backpack three years ago or so for use at school. A few days ago a buckle broke, so I contacted JanSport via their customer service web page. I explained the situation of the buckle breaking and not having a receipt

CNet picks up BusinessWeek report, seems to do no independent fact checking

12September2008GeekTieGuyPersonal

Let’s see if anyone cares about this. CNet News.com posted something about how HP is trying to do an "end run" around Windows. The post seems to quote a BusinessWeek article from last Friday (online edition) and I wonder if anyone did any fact checking. Now, I’m not about to dignify the speculation around what

Fix Windows Live Photo Gallery file associations

10September2008GeekTieGuy1 CommentSoftware

Not sure this is something people run into a lot, but if you are using Windows Live Photo Gallery and you can’t use it to view files by double-clicking on them anymore, the fix is to re-register the PhotoViewerShim.dll like this: regsvr32 "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Live\Photo Gallery\PhotoViewerShim.dll" This information is brought to you courtesy of winhelponline.com

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Monthly Archives: September 2008

A Geekdad Experiment: What Gears Do On a Bicycle

Exemplary customer service at JanSport

CNet picks up BusinessWeek report, seems to do no independent fact checking

Fix Windows Live Photo Gallery file associations