[begin senseless rant]

Okay, I know that I need to unclench about this one, but I keep seeing people at work writing effect instead of affect, and it's driving me batty. I know that they are virtually homophones, but it shouldn't be too, too hard to remember that almost always affect is a verb while effect is a noun. When you affect something, a ( Read more... )

Thanks, CNN, for yIKEs, it's coming! and the flagrant use of "certain death" in your coverage of Hurricane Ike's approach on Houston/Galveston. Was this headline brought to us by the same people that brought us Flori-DUH back in the 2000 election ( Read more... )

Ok, I understand that web page design has progressed much of late with Ajax, Flash, etc., so that pages today don't have to look as though they are being rendered on Netscape 1 and such. That's all fine and good, but it seems these days web designers are going SO overboard with these new sparkly tools as to web pages increasingly annoying to use ( Read more... )

So, as I wrote yesterday, I wanted to upgrade to HD cable. I didn't actually call Comcast, but I went through their "on-line chat" feature. Such things usually work well for me as I find talking on the phone completely antithetical to my nature and it allows me to multitask. AND, I don't have to deal with fucking phone trees, which are another ( Read more... )

I know now what my personal hell will be. Sisyphus had to roll a boulder up a hill and Tantalus had to reach for fruit and water that were out of reach. If the gods have a sense of humor for my eternal punishment, they will subject me to a never-ending looping phone tree promising me escape if I can hit the right combination of buttons ( Read more... )