All posts by Jeff Reifman

Jeff is a technology consultant based in the Pacific Northwest.

Apple.com Misleads T-Mobile Customers to Stores

It’s one thing to deliver an incredible product year after year managing global supply and demand, it’s another thing to stupidly mislead customers on your product launch website for a week. Apple’s iPhone Upgrade website instructs T-Mobile customers to enroll...

/ September 12, 2016

Southeast Sunday Parkways in Portland

I had fun walking all seven miles of the Southeast Sunday Parkways in Portland today. You can see all of the images I took: Southeast Sunday Parkways – Portland, Oregon. Here are three of my favorite:

/ August 22, 2016

Actually, It is Guns, Not Ideology

After the truck attack in Nice, France, radio host Joe Walsh tweeted, “Not a gun. Not a bomb. This was a truck. 2-3 minutes. As of now over 80 dead. Please understand now. It’s not the weapon. It’s the ideology.”...

/ July 20, 2016

Has Seattle Lost Its Sense of Humor? Or, Does Amazocalypse Suck?

Zoe and the Amazocalypse have been covered in three major Seattle news outlets (Geekwire, Seattle PI and The Stranger) and one major Internet news site (Slashdot), but there’s been minimal interest and sparse sharing and pledging. After yesterday’s slog post,...

/ July 15, 2016

My Experience with Netgear Customer Support for CM500 Modem

For curious reasons I’ll be blogging about soon, I was to told to call Comcast to open up a few UDP ports. Comcast refused to offer any assistance saying the problem was with my router or my cable modem. I...

/ July 14, 2016

Avoid Travel with Aum Adventures

My Experience Traveling to India with Aum Adventures Last December, I traveled to India for my second visit, this time with Aum Adventures. Based on my experience, I want to warn others about the likelihood of problems traveling through this agency. In...

/ July 10, 2016

An Interesting Occurrence of a Small Production PHP Bug

Recently, I created a bug at Meeting Planner which took some time to track down. Everything worked on my local development environment, but adding dates and times and places and making meeting choices failed on the live production server. Ultimately,...

/ July 9, 2016