Yes, yes, yes, I’m way behind. And I have things saved that are long overdue to be ranted upon-but the following 3 links, just… really… what more can be said?

• I get the thrill of joining the “mile high club”. Really, I do. I’d never *do* it, mostly because those seats are damned uncomfortable on their own, but I get it. Here’s the thing, though. I ( Read more... )

I’m not sure how, but when I attempted to post the last two entries, their titles tried very hard to run away from me. I don’t like that.It looks intact now, but let’s see what happens after a run through the post creation machine. I may be titling it again, later.
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Just when you get to thinking maybe, just maybe, things in the cell phone market can’t reach a higher level of ridiculous, some corporate yuck’s gotta walk in and set you straight. In this case, Verizon’s more than happy to do that to me. A lady saw a miscellanious $4.19 charge for, apparently, local calls. When she called to have it explained, she ( Read more... )

Generally speaking, I don’t buy my equipment from your typical big box store if it can be helped just on basic principle, and because you don’t have as much flexibility when doing that. But I’ve been known to on occasion. This might just change my mind. Staples has been slapped by Canada’s privacy watchdog after not completely whiping computer and ( Read more... )

When moving something like a WordPress blog from a server run by crooks to a server run by yourself, who is at least twice as cool, it helps to not be a moron and actually remember to move over your geekily hacked together .htaccess file along with it. Unless, that is, you want all your hard work to fall very |flat all over the bloody floor. Kinda ( Read more... )

You are a manufacturer of computers. Most if not all of those computers will be running Microsoft software. Yes, up to and including Internet Explorer. There are techy type folks who still use Internet Explorer-mostly because what they do doesn’t yet fully support those other browsers (damn you, industry standards). You need techy type people. Or, ( Read more... )

Remember this guy? Yeah, that one. US Congressman Anthony Weiner (I can’t even type that with a straight face). After being caught showing his off on Twitter, he’s been under some pressure to get help, probably resulting in some kind of medication, and give up his position-something he’s not overly inclined to do, really. I should probably leave ( Read more... )

I’ve been making a fair few changes to things on this end lately. Mostly changes aimed at preventing things from falling flat on their faces. For the past few days, though, it’s been looking mostly like things were falling all over the place anyway. It started with my finally ditching Feedburner, while at the same time playing with the latest new ( Read more... )

Disclaimer: If you’re not of a technical mind, or things like hard drive failures make you run screaming in the other direction, you may want to skip this post. Just a friendly warning from your neighbourhood undercaffinated geek. Particularly when the fake ones in question leave not just you, but your equally technically inclined roommate, staring ( Read more... )

I didn’t even know there were companies out there who’d insure a property used for growing marijuana. Or, for that matter, who’d insure the actual operation for growing marijuana. Apparently, not only are there companies that do these things, but there’s actually people who want them up here-they’re currently a US thing primarily, it looks like. ( Read more... )