Birthday weekend on the Vineyard

We're spending a couple nights at The Madison Inn in Oak Bluffs, a town on Martha's Vineyard. Cute place, cute town, though not everything's open for the season yet. Tomorrow, we'll explore Vineyard Haven and some other parts of the island. For now, it's nice to not have to think about dishes, my to do list, etc.

Epicurious.com won't delete my account

A few months back, I created an account on Epicurious.com to test out the Facebook Beacon advertising feature that was in the news. After playing with it a bit, I decided I really didn't want an Epicurious account, so I e-mailed their customer service department asking them to remove my account. No response. So, I contacted them again. No response. I e-mailed their parent company's customer service. No response again. It's now been several months, and I haven't so much as gotten a response, and the account is still active. I've since noticed in their privacy policy that they make no commitment to remove accounts upon request. Talk about terrible business practice. They may have my e-mail address, but they'll never be getting my business (or my ad views).

Daylight savings tricks

Another one of life's little "a-ha" moments: when you realize that the reason your Palm has been reminding you of things an hour late all week is because of the time change five days earlier.