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As someone who has not had a landline phone number since 1997 (more than 7 years), the thought of someone refusing to do business with me because of this is offensive. The fact that this corporate policy has persisted for almost two years with little desire to respond to customer demand is amazing. I have contacted Domino’s customer service and am waiting for an ‘official response’.

Domino’s pizza corporate policy is that it “doesn’t accept orders from cell phones” because drivers have “gotten beaten up when delivering orders placed by cell phones”. They require you to provide a telephone number that looks like a landline phone number. However, during a recent phone call, they will accept any old phone number, even one for a city 40 miles away, so the corporate policy isn’t acheiving its intended goal anyway.

For instance, you could pick any phone number from the telephone book and still place an order from your cell phone if you turn caller id blocking on.

Lastly, they asked for a cell phone I could be reached at in case the driver got lost and needed directions. How ironic?

Now earlier news reports say that cell phone users are ignored because the recipients don’t answer and so the pizza can’t be delivered and costs Domino’s money. Apparently, it’s not just Dominos pizza who have adopted anti-cellphone policies.

This Domino’s I ordered from apparently wasn’t part of the ones that tried accepting cellphones more graciously, or the ones that required a security form to be filled out first to make future orders easier.

I’ve been an Amazon customer since 1997. But maybe I’ll stop now.

What’s wrong with this picture:

but in reality,

That’s 6 weeks from order to estimated shipment. Of course the first estimate was 2 weeks. Shouldn’t they now be advertising 6 weeks to ship, or is that being too truthful.

Note that Amazon’s price is substantially lower than the competition, but they don’t have product.

Hey, I’ll offer you a new Lexus for $1, but you’re going to have to wait a little bit… You can wait right? Don’t buy from anyone else in the meantime…

Check out some of the comments at Reseller ratings: http://www.resellerratings.com/seller2077.html

Now that Borders has ‘teamed’ with Amazon (or rather admitted defeat to Barnes&Noble), you might consider Barnes & Noble or other booksellers.

Updated 1/20/05:

Amazon now claims 1-3 weeks estimated shipment. However asking Barnes & Noble, their distributor contacted the publisher in the UK and the publisher is not printing the book any more. The distributor won’t even place an order.

Regarding http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/06/svn_homedir.html, I have kept most config files and scripts that i take from job to job in CVS, but have now switched to subversion (for its better handling of directory and file renaming) and offline work. Unfortunately, if not everyone uses subversion, you will be maintaining multiple repositories, or have to choose a main one and a secondary one that doesn’t get updated as often.

However, I wouldn’t synchronize offline mailboxes between computers, and neither the web browser cache. Also, I don’t intend to put binary objects in general in the repository. If they’re important enough to archive or backup, they should be explicitly backed up onto multiple media and periodically verified for media failure. Digital baby photos have a different level of archival importance than a .cshrc for instance. I.e. one you wouldn’t ever want to lose over dozens of years, while another you could lose and still survive.