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The Appliance Repair Hotline Assumes Room Temperature

Sunday, March 20th, 2005

If you’re a regular to this site, you know that one of the features I offered was a Toll-Free Appliance Repair Hotline. I decided to pull the plug on the Hotline. The reason for having it in the first place was to help grasshoppers find the appliance repair help they needed here at [...]

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Spiffy New Appliance Parts Lookup Tools

Sunday, February 6th, 2005

Finding those appliance parts you need just got a whole lot easier, Budrow. Now, you can find the part you need right here, right now using this spiffy new form:

Please
choose appliance type, brand and enter the model number:

Appliance
brand:

Select your brand
[...]

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Appliantology Repair Forum: Glitch or Hack?

Tuesday, January 25th, 2005

Somehow, almost two months worth of posts were deleted from the repair forum at the Appliantology Group. This is an extremely active forum with dozens of posts per day. You’ll notice that the most recent post (after the current ones) are dated 11-30-2004. I have no idea how all those posts got deleted [...]

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New Member Settings for the Appliantology Group

Monday, January 24th, 2005

As you Appliantology groupies may have noticed, there’s been an increase in spam postings in the repair forum recently. Because of this, I’ve had to change the group membership setting from open, meaning anyone can join without needing my approval, to restricted, meaning I have to approve all new members before they can post [...]

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New and Improved Sounds at Fixitnow.com

Wednesday, January 19th, 2005

sfdfgsdfgsdf wrote:

the sound on your website is REALLY F*CKING ANNOYING. do YOU like it when websites have really long annoying sounds when you go to them? didnt think so.
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Message sent from IP: 68.33.109.109

It’s exactly this kind of constructive criticism that enables us continually to refine the unique user experience we strive to achieve here at [...]

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The Samurai School of Appliantology: Now Accepting New Students

Monday, December 13th, 2004

The Samurai School of Appliantology boasts students from all over the globe. I have talked many frustrated grasshoppers through all types of appliance problems, ranging from the mundane to the bizarre. Today, I received this email from one of my students:
Randall Frank wrote:

The $$ I spent on “tuition” is among the [...]

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Toll-Free Appliance Repair Hotline Update

Wednesday, October 27th, 2004

Due to time constraints, I’ve been unable to return calls on the Toll-Free Appliance Repair Hotline for the past several days. Consequently, so many messages had piled up that there was no way I was going to be able to return them. So I had to delete them and start fresh. Hey, [...]

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How to Search The Appliantology Group

Thursday, October 14th, 2004

For over two years now, The Appliantology Group has been hosted at MSN Groups. Despite some minor limitations, it has proven to be a popular and salubrious format for the AG. The lack of a site search, however, is a glaring shortcoming. As posts have been added and answered at the repair [...]

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Appliantology Repair Forum Moved

Monday, October 4th, 2004

NEWS FLASH — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
By popular demand, the world-famous Appliantology repair forum will be closed down at its current location at ezBoard and moved to its new home. This change is effective immediately.
The spokeswoman for Fixitnow.com, Kujira Mifune, reports that loyal Appliantology Grasshoppers from all over the globe have flooded the Samurai [...]

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Good Reading

Sunday, August 1st, 2004

Some people like to read novels; others read the news. The Great Unwashed Illiterati prefer to just “read” the pictures in Hustler and other such pillars of contemporary culture.
The Samurai has more philosophical tastes in his reading preferences. I like to read about that great elixir of life, Beer. Especially Cheap Beer. [...]

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Say Konichiwa to Kujira

Saturday, July 24th, 2004

Don’t you hate those impersonal, faceless websites? Even the websites that are out there to help you in some way try to hide behind some impersonal website identity. That sucks! If the internet isn’t about bringing people together tête-à-tête, then it’s simply another way for us to build walls between each other. [...]

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The Appliance Repair Hotline is Now Toll-free!

Sunday, July 11th, 2004

A couple of weeks ago, I switched over to a new appliance repair hotline system. The original hotline was strictly voicemail. The new hotline has the added feature of calling me directly. If I’m available, we’ll talk right then and there. If I’m not available, you can leave voicemail. And, [...]

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Moostafa’s Mecca of Appliance Repair

Friday, July 9th, 2004

To All My Dear Grasshoppers and Esteemed Fellow Appliantologists:
Since announcing yesterday that I intended to delete the Appliantology Group repair forum, I have been flooded by hundreds of emails and phone calls from forum participants urging me to reconsider. After much soul-searching and careful deliberation, I have decided that deleting the Appliantology Group forum [...]

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Audio Introduction to the Free Appliance Repair Hotline

Saturday, June 26th, 2004

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Free Appliance Repair Hotline

Friday, June 25th, 2004

Link ==> Free Appliance Repair Hotline

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