Entries Tagged as 'rant'
My beef with Apple keyboards
There’s a lot of talk about the new apple keyboards, are they good, do they suck, etc… well this post isn’t about them. I’ve gone through a lot of keyboards in my time, good, bad, clicky, quiet, whatever. I know my preferences, but really, as long as I can type on it ok, in general [...]
Time Warner customer service is really the worst
So, if you’ll remember, just before I left my cable went out and my calls to Time Warner’s RoadRunner customer service was the most unbelievably horrible service calls I’ve ever had. To sum up, it ended upbeat with the cs rep hanging up on me, believe me that was a high note from the rest [...]
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Irritation
Today was the trifecta of irritations.
It all started off at 6:30 this morning when I discovered that my cable was completely out - internet and tv. Called in - first lady was about as good as you expect Time Warner customer service to be. I was incredibly upset to find out that unless this was [...]
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Why is Feedburner trouble again?
So, David Winer came out with this post about Feedburner being trouble. Now, long time (or even short time) readers of this blog know that I’m all for Google having bought Feedburner. David didn’t like Feedburner for some reason in the first place and now that Big Bad Google bought them likes it even less. [...]
9 Reasons Why George Lucas Sucks
Thanks to the boys at sfsignal for pointing out this post with 9 Reasons Why George Lucas Sucks. The post is excellent and with supporting links to boot! I think my favourite from that list is #6 - Lucas is a bad director and even worse screenwriter. I knew that, but didn’t know this:
Additionally, while [...]
On genre vs fiction
Ok, I wasn’t going to post anything anymore, but I pulled down the boingboing tab in my firefox live rss feeds and found the link to this little gem by Ursula K. Le Guin’s response (in the latest Ansible) to this moronic quote from Slate:
`Michael Chabon has spent considerable energy trying to drag the decaying [...]
Computerworld takes on Apple
So it is inevitable that the rising hype machine that is Apple was going to start getting dinged for perceived failures. The latest and biggest was the launch of Safari for windows. Now I have my own particular thoughts on why they did it and what it’s short term success rate is likely to be. [...]
Palm loves buttons!
I was thinking some more about Palm and in particular my Treo. It’s interesting that how despite my quickly increasing dissatisfaction with my 650, there’s still nothing I’m seriously considering replacing it with. Here’s the thing, it does, in general, a mediocre job of a lot of things but it doesn’t really do anything [...]
PAYjr, introduce your kids to the corporate world early!
Wow, I’m completely surprised that someone both made this and others think it’s a good idea. PAYjr (via techcrunch) is an online chore tracking and payment system that completely intermediates any contact between parent and child in the household chore process. All interaction should occur via the website, parents can schedule chores and payments and [...]
Patent madness
I just read on Techdirt that not only has our USPTO approved Amazon’s 1-Click patent, it has gone so far as to broaden the scope of the patent. Now, you know I love Bezos’ boys, right? I think they’re a company that has consistently grokked the web. They’ve spent so much effort in really interesting [...]
