We were getting ready for breakfast on the porch this morning when I was struck by the items on the table:<\/p>\n
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Sometime last winter, after a spate of delivery problems, I got fed up and cancelled our subscription to the Boston Globe. You know that there is something wrong with the way things work when a newspaper changes its subscribers more for the paper than they charge at the newsstand… I thought that the having a subscription (and being a loyal customer) would merit a discount not a surcharge.<\/p>\n
I probably would not have minded the delivery surcharge if the Globe could have met its own deadline. They say that the paper will be delivered by 6 AM… many mornings the paper was not in the box when I left for work at 7:30. So, in a fit of frustration,\u00a0I cancelled the subscription and began reading the paper on-line every day. (I had been reading on-line on some of the days when the paper was late.)<\/p>\n
It took me quite a while to get used to reading the paper (and doing the crossword puzzle)\u00a0on-line each morning. But by now firing up the laptop is simply part of the morning routine just as making the coffee is. On weekends, at least, Joan does the same. The scene shown above is the result!<\/p>\n
As far as the Globe goes, the story gets worse.<\/p>\n
For other reasons, I have been using FireFox with Ad Blocker Plus, to surf much of the web. Now the Globe website, along with\u00a0many others,\u00a0load four or five time faster than\u00a0they used to and there are no advertisements cluttering things up…not that I every paid any attention to the ads before.<\/p>\n
I may be a codger and a curmudgeon, but I am a modern up-to-date with technology one!<\/p>\n
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