Ada Chen Rekhi's Blog (@adachen)

Craigslist rental scam and community policing

Posted in Uncategorized by Ada Chen Rekhi on 22 September 2008

In largely user-generated communities, it’s always pretty impressive to see how quickly inappropriate behavior gets busted by the user community. In my latest housing search, I ran into one of those “too good to be true” sort of postings, and received the following message from the would-be scammer.  Pretty neat to note that the first alert I received was from the posting being flagged for removal by the Craigslist community. (more…)

Back in Business

Posted in Uncategorized by Ada Chen Rekhi on 16 September 2008

To follow up my earlier post about my Apple MacBook cracking, I visited the store and it took “5 to 6 business days” for them to replace the case of my MacBook. But voila, I’m back in business!

Apple’s done a fantastic job of cultivating its clean image of virus-free dependability, but I’ve definitely had my fair annoyances this month with their products. (more…)