The backbone of any company, especially one that deals in technology, is innovation. You need to come up with better ideas than everyone else to be the best at what you do and win the hearts of your customers. Inevitably, though, companies will fall into the trap of thinking that they can simply rest upon [...]
Filed under: Geek, Rants on March 2nd, 2010 | No Comments »
Due to a crawler that thinks sending hundreds of requests at a time is an acceptable practice, something that effectively results in a denial of service attack on the web server, Yahoo’s crawler has hereby been completely and totally banned from indexing any of our websites. While I may lose a visit or two every [...]
Filed under: Rants, Website on January 6th, 2010 | No Comments »
Dear Teabaggers, You’re new here, aren’t you? I mean to the whole protesting thing. And the small government thing. Let’s have a talk before you embarrass yourselves any further.
Filed under: Politics, Rants on April 15th, 2009 | 12 Comments »
The Utah Democratic Party seems to be about as truth challenged as the mis-guided and hypocritical “teabaggers” throwing hissy fits parties today. (Seriously, where were you guys when Bush racked up trillions in deficits? Worshiping at the shrine of fellow debt addict Ronald Reagan?) From a press release issued today: In January 2001 when Bill [...]
Filed under: Politics, Rants on April 15th, 2009 | 27 Comments »
Anyone who's been reading the blog for a while knows that I don't much care for spam. Aside from the epic battle with Mark Towner (who has since appropriately faded away into obscurity where he belongs), I've also called out the Luke Garrott campaign on spam which resulted in a quick apology and removal from [...]
Filed under: Politics, Rants on January 26th, 2009 | 5 Comments »
If you've used a credit or debit card in the recent past, you've probably been asked to show ID with your purchase. I find this additional step to be somewhat inconvenient and recently discovered that Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover all expressly prohibit requiring ID as a condition of accepting the card. So you [...]
Filed under: Life, Rants on December 1st, 2008 | 12 Comments »
I've pretty much had it with Christmas advertising already and it isn't yet Thanksgiving. Since just after Labor Day, stores have been hawking Christmas lights and playing Christmas music and basically bombarding me with everything Christmas for more than 2 months. There's even neighbors who, I kid you not, have put up Christmas lights… and [...]
Filed under: Rants, Tender Lumplings on November 18th, 2008 | 12 Comments »
In what can best be described as the tortured logic of a madman, Prop 8 opponents have filed suit to overturn the will of the voters just one more time by claiming that the constitutional amendment is (wait for it)… unconstitutional. Their "logic" (and I do use that word loosely) is that acceptance of Prop [...]
Filed under: Politics, Rants on November 5th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Shauna and I decided that we wanted to watch a streaming movie from Netflix tonight and found a title that seemed pretty interesting. I went ahead and loaded it up only to be met with a message that our Internet connection was too slow to start watching it immediately and that we'd have to wait [...]
Filed under: Geek, Rants on October 25th, 2008 | 7 Comments »
There have been precious few times where a political issue has had me absolutely infuriated with white hot rage. Among these are the deployment of troops to Iraq in 2003 and the unnecessary tax increases in Nevada during that same year. All of the recent maneuvering around this bailout of failing banks similarly has me [...]
Filed under: Frugal Living, Homeownership, Politics, Rants on September 30th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
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