Category: Rants

Verizon to Vonage: All You Phone Calls Are Belong To Us 10

Verizon to Vonage: All You Phone Calls Are Belong To Us

In a move designed to infuriate the technical community (yours truly included), the judge in the patent case between Verizon and Vonage has issued an order that Vonage is prohibited from completing calls from its service to a regular phone...

Everything About the Playstation 3 is Insanity 3

Everything About the Playstation 3 is Insanity

Today marks the oft-delayed launch of Sony's Playstation 3, the next iteration of their market-dominating game console. The question, however, is why anyone should care. All of the parties involved in our nation's latest "Tickle Me Elmo" craze are bonkers.

Travel Log, Tampa FL: Day 1 1

Travel Log, Tampa FL: Day 1

Or "Flying the Unfriendly Skies." Today's trip to Tampa started off really badly. In fact, I'd say it was one of the most annoying flying days I've ever had, topping the 6-hour wait in an employee lounge at Ontario's airport...

Internet Explorer 7: Yesterday's Browser… Today! 8

Internet Explorer 7: Yesterday's Browser… Today!

Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7 the other day. Since I'm required to use it for some of our programs at work, I went ahead and upgraded to the latest version. Needless to say, I'm totally unimpressed.

Don't send spam, m-kay? 7

Don't send spam, m-kay?

Some map company in Arizona thought it would be funny to send me some spam the other day. Tonight, I did a little research and then responded.

Everyone, meet my new dietician: 14

Everyone, meet my new dietician:

She's an emaciated sadistic little witch. And I wouldn't go back there if you paid me. Unless you were paying me to snap the little twig in half. So seriously. I was really excited about my appointment with this dietician...

No More Mister Nice Guy, No More Mister Clean 3

No More Mister Nice Guy, No More Mister Clean

I'm on a tear now. The swamp cooler lost power again and we still haven't gotten Roofing Guy to come out the install the vents on the roof or haul away the leftover construction materials. I'm reaching the end of...

MySpace: The Internet's Largest Cesspool 7

MySpace: The Internet's Largest Cesspool

The more I use MySpace, the more I end up hating it. I'm sure all of you are familiar with the world's largest social networking site. Most of you probably have a profile on there as well. (Someone is creating...

Why do phone companies have to stink? 0

Why do phone companies have to stink?

There must be an unwritten rule somewhere that if you're a phone company, one or more aspects of your company must be lousy. Some companies go for pricing, others for service, a couple for reliability, and yet a few go...

Winder Dairy: 1 / The Rock: 0 4

Winder Dairy: 1 / The Rock: 0

I’d first like to explain that I am the world’s most unaffected person by sales people and closers and all smooth-talking, gelled-up professionals whose job is to make me spend more money. That’s why *my* job this evening was to...