Archive for the 'rants' Category

Kiss the PalmOS and the Treo Goodbye

Monday, September 26th, 2005

Analysis from PC Magazine: “Palm’s Dangerous Path”
Palm unveiled their first Windows Mobile Treo today…
As a palm user since around 1996, and a Treo 600 user from the minute they came out (I had seen one early, for about 2 seconds, in the hands of uber-designer Peter Skillman and HAD to have it) [...]

About Time They Released Palm Desktop for Mac - Too Bad It Sucks

Wednesday, September 7th, 2005

Palm Desktop 4.2.1 Rev C for Mac seems to have been written by the dimmest person at Palm.
Unfortunatly, I did not have the sense to look at Version Tracker first - where it has been vary fairly reviewed. Doh!
The software is, to put it mildly, a piece of JUNK. It totally [...]

Mad as hell, switching to Mac

Friday, May 27th, 2005

Mad as hell, switching to Mac
From Network World

Lies Verizon DSL Support Has Told Me Today

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

Lies Verizon DSL Support Has Told Me Today : Gizmodo
Now I remember why I got rid of them for DSL service.
Sheesh. I shudder when I remember how bad their customer service was.
Get you act together, folks.

Useless Umbra Compact Dish Rack

Sunday, May 1st, 2005

This Umbra Compact Dish Rack is perhaps the most useless kitchen item I have ever purchased. One website claims “This self-draining compact dish rack from Umbra is a modern essential, especially well-suited to small kitchens with limited counter space.” Ha!
It is indeed an attracive and compact bit of folding plastic - [...]

The stupid West Side stadium (from kottke.org)

Wednesday, April 27th, 2005

The stupid West Side stadium (from kottke.org)
The stupid West Side stadium
Amen. What a waste of good space. Plenty of room to build apartments to house all the creative types (who give the city the flavor that makes it great) who are being squeezed out by the investment banker types and rent decontrolling.