January 2011
38 posts
Unwanted hug arrest | Tampa Bay, St. Petersburg,... →
Frack.
December 2010
17 posts
I’ve been trying to buy a case from clamcase.com since they’re on sale until tomorrow. I bet that’s when their online store will work again.
Jessica Cooper: Too Old to Comprehend Modern... →
Her decision smacks of an exceptional lack of understanding of the technology involved, and is the typical fear-based reactionary nonsense choice that is to be expected of the “aged” segment of the population; it’s understandable in the elderly, since they didn’t grow up with much more than incandescent bulbs, but it’s intolerable in someone who represents the public...
Radar Detector →
I had no idea what I wanted for Christmas, but Daniel managed to find something I’d actually have a good use for :-)
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“When she points out that she’s a poor college student, the RIAA rep kindly...”
– RIAA Suggests MIT Student Drop Out Of School To Pay Fine
How UPS fucked up Christmas
I placed some orders a week ago; after paying for expedited delivery, UPS STILL manages to fuck things up. I just checked the tracking (it should have been delivered today) and discover that the status is now “Incorrect Routing by UPS Facility” and instead of arriving today, my package will be delivered on the 28th. So basically they fucked up and, despite the package still being at...
SamKnows / FCC study
The FCC accepted my application for the SamKnows study. They’re going to send me a “white box” which will continually monitor my internet connection and let the FCC know whether I’m actually getting the full service promised in my ISP agreement with Charter Communications. This should be interesting :)
AT&T sent me a Christmas card
Why are they sending out ‘thank you for choosing AT&T’ letters? Ok I admit I prefer their coverage to T-Mobile in my area, but that doesn’t mean we’re bosom buddies..
Mayor in hospital after choking on a fat sausage
Bristol’s hospitalized mayor improving Bristol’s hospitalized mayor is improving nearly two weeks after choking at dinner and falling unconscious. Read more: http://wtnh.m0bl.net/r/a3pkw
I favorited a YouTube video — Authors@Google: Neil Gaiman http://youtu.be/7LmfCGy_ZLg?a
Gawker.com, you really disappoint me
Apparently even media companies that deal with high technology are still media companies, and every bit as incompetent. I guess I expected too much, they are corporate whores, after all.
Anyone in Baltimore wanna do some damage? →
Last May, Schulte reported that one woman in Baltimore lost her home because of an unpaid $362 water bill. After her bill was sold to a lien holder, double-digit interest rates and fees increased the bill to more than $3,600 — which she couldn’t pay. The city evicted her.
Antivirus Firms Admit to Ripping Off Customers... →
“Two leading security firms have been accused of ripping off customers by cutting short their antivirus subscriptions. AVG and Symantec are offering their own customers discounts on subscriptions via email or pop-ups, but the new subscriptions start immediately, ‘short-changing’ users who had months left on their existing deal. Both Symantec and AVG owned up to the practice,...
OpenDNS Dashboard →
I just tried to check my stats on OpenDNS, and got a message that since I haven’t checked them recently they’ve been purged. It’s been a fracking week.
Why the fuck would I bother to set up an OpenDNS account and configure it for stats tracking, if I don’t want stats?!
Jailbreaking Phones Lands A Guy In... Jail! |... →
Tracfone = douchebags. Filing criminal charges while KNOWING that the act in question was not just legal, but also protected by law? WTF.
Hartford, CT hospitals buying guns on the street,...
Gift cards for guns buy-back The people who see gunshot victims nearly every day and try to patch up their wounds have kicked off their annual campaign to get guns off the streets. http://wtnh.m0bl.net/r/9sp8m
NEWater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
I suppose ‘I’ll take a NEWater’ sounds better than ‘man could I go for some nice cold piss’.