Castro's Favorite Color

Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.

Sunday, November 06, 2005

Avoid Call Center Hell

Hate those automated voice systems you get when you call a company? Know the trick that dialing zero often gets you to human? Annoyed that it's working less and less? Paul English was and developed an online Cheat Sheet to Find-A-Human. There are hundreds of companies in it.

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