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Archive for September 2008

Craigslist rental scam and community policing

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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. Read the rest of this entry »

Written by Ada Chen Rekhi

22 September 2008 at 9:15 am

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Back in Business

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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. Read the rest of this entry »

Written by Ada Chen Rekhi

16 September 2008 at 7:38 am

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