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Category Archives: rants
Tim Thomas Removes All Doubt
“It’s better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open’s one mouth and remove all doubt.” – Quote attributed to both Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln. Thomas statement on White House absence http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=613279 Tim Thomas put himself above … Continue reading
Airlines are not very good at math, are they?
Dopey United. I arrived early and they wanted to charge me $75 to get on an earlier flight that had space. So I read the paper for 45 minutes instead. Now they are offering me $400 not get onto my … Continue reading
Dumbest Quote EVER About a Business (Apple, in this case)
This in a New York Times article today called Apple Races to Keep Ahead of Rivals: “If they start making products people don’t want, and start losing users, then Apple’s strategy will run into problems,” said Benjamin Reitzes, an analyst … Continue reading
Kiss the PalmOS and the Treo Goodbye
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 … Continue reading
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About Time They Released Palm Desktop for Mac – Too Bad It Sucks
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! … Continue reading
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Mad as hell, switching to Mac
Mad as hell, switching to Mac From Network World
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Lies Verizon DSL Support Has Told Me Today
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.
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Useless Umbra Compact Dish Rack
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! … Continue reading
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The stupid West Side stadium (from kottke.org)
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 … Continue reading
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