Tag Archive for 'rants'

Is my name fucking Bill Murray?

29Apr08

What about X?
It doesn’t matter because Y doesn’t Z.
But what about X?
It doesn’t matter because Y doesn’t Z.
But what about X?
Hey, look, your shadow!

Attention Road Ragers

28Jan08

When I flick you off for being a dick in traffic, the correct thing to do is continue along your merry way. Don’t stop in the middle of the road and start to get out of your car. And when I go around you, do not proceed to follow me to my office. These are […]

Thin Skinned

11Jan08

Along with my early morning rant I sent a two-sentence e-mail to HR:
Could you guys PLEASE put a prominent link to [benefits-site] somewhere on the staff site? I lost a ton of vacation time last year and I blame the fact that I can never find that stupid URL to check my TOP balance.
No dirty […]

Vacation Caps Suck

10Jan08

My company’s paid time-off plan is pretty generous (for the US, at least). The accrual method was pretty foreign to me but those 6.5 hours per semi-monthly paycheck add up to 19.5 days per year, plus two “floating” holidays. Company holidays are pretty light but that’s sadly the norm for young-ish technology companies.
The PTO plan […]

Fucking Lame

07Jan08

A while back my Credit Union implemented a “Multi-Factor Authentication” system for their online services, as required by law. Like most banks, they went cheap. In additional to a password my account now has three “challenge” questions associated with it. I can regularly recall the answers to just two.
They also implemented an “Anti-Phishing” system. I […]

Feed Pruning for the New Year

06Jan08

Unsubscribe Engadget. Lately it seems that you’ve just been parroting the press releases of every just-announced electronic piece-of-crap and the CES blitz that landed 50 new entries in my RSS reader when I woke up this morning has pushed me over the edge. So long and thanks for all the fish.
I’m not sure where to […]

Excel Sucks

22Dec07

What did I ask Excel to do? Cut. Fucking Cut. It’s Two-Thousand-and-Goddamned-Seven, and Excel has trouble with Cut.

iPhone Annoyances #12

01Oct07

Why doesn’t every iPhone app support rotation? It sure would be nice to be able to use the keyboard in landscape mode for Mail, SMS, Notes, and anywhere else that I have to type. I’ll grant that the on-screen keyboard isn’t as awful as I expected, but I do much better with it in landscape […]




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