Rather unbelievably, the vendor who said they would send me parts for my RANCILIO SILVIA ripped me off!

I will be updating my complaint against MR CAPPUCINO -- Ordered parts for my espresso machine. PRE PAID with international Money Order. Recieved ONLY ONE of the parts vis USPS. Other part never arrived, as their crappy packaging job caused it to fall out. Then they have the temerity to claim CUSTOMS lost it!

They are ripping off the insurance carrier by telling me to punt and file a claim. The delivery is F.O.B., so they are responsible for filing the claim.

In fact, I have already ordered the parts from another REPUTABLE supplied. I discovered that MRCAPPUCINO significantly overcharged me -- the same parts from another supplier cost only US$32.

I want a refund from MRCAPPUCINO. They misrepresented the total cost, incorrectly packaged the parts for shipment causing the loss, and then LIE about shipping a replacement.

I will be posting the entire documentation and communications on my BLOG, for all to find with Google, when looking for repair vendors.
posted by Tom Termini at 7/06/2007

Did i mention the green home (or green house) presentation i gave to the county?

See the site, here, http://www.mc-mncppc.org/goinggreen/

and download my PPT here:
http://www.mc-mncppc.org/goinggreen/images/Green_Home_Nov_15_2005.ppt

read more case studies

Why should you care?
Geothermal heat pumps (sometimes referred to as GeoExchange, earth-coupled, ground-source, or water-source heat pumps) have been in use since the late 1940s. Geothermal heat pumps (GHPs) use the constant temperature of the earth as the exchange medium instead of the outside air temperature. This allows the system to reach fairly high efficiencies (300%-600%) on the coldest of winter nights, compared to 175%-250% for air-source heat pumps on cool days.
posted by Tom Termini at 6/23/2007

Services oriented architecture (SOA) done incrementally -- that's the gist of this article on Government Computer News. They quote me (tom termini) on some efforts Bluedog has been instrumental on, as architects and developers.

According to the author,

"SOA can help with all that, but if you’re getting started on it, experts have two words of advice: Start small. Incremental change and gradual improvements are better than trying to SOA-enable your entire IT infrastructure.

SOA is a design approach that integrates business and IT strategies to provide users with common services that leverage existing and new functionality. A key goal is the development of a business and technology architecture that can support changing regulatory, business and customer needs."

Full article:

http://http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif www.gcn.com/print/26_16/44547-1.html

Of course, they mention some good stuff, like the FTC SOA effort.
posted by Tom Termini at 6/23/2007

Three-tier architecture means high availability, low cost, high security. Not held hostage by any single vendor. Expand capacity, come up with new ways to services users, quickly and economically.
posted by Tom Termini at 6/23/2007

I found some excellent case studies on the web, there's info on all the SOA (services oriented architecture), web services, Java / WebObjects projects done by Bluedog since 1998.http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif

Labels: Some SOA case studies

posted by Tom Termini at 6/23/2007