'rant' Category
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Aug282008
It’s like there’s some sort of conflict between North and South that continues to be waged
(thanks, Ozone Ferd!) Poor Jessica. This stupid “Atlanta is a second-tier city” crap will not die down. She wrote a piece for Creative Loafing, hoping to at least balance her Google results in the Great NYC-ATL-Non-Battle-Of-2008, only to a) be outed on that Bloomberg piece in the comments, and b) to find out that it’s […]
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Aug272008
Nickel and Dimeing Comcast’s Ad Budget
My brother pointed out that, with all my traumas with Comcast that I’ve been blogging in order to get the Comcast Cares guys to find me (in vain, unfortunately), the Google ad-sense content algorithm is showing lots of ads for, ironically enough, comcast. So I’m going to place a hopefully Comcast-filled ad banner (based on […]
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Aug202008
oh my freakin god F____ YOU COMCAST YOU F____ING IDIOT MUNGASSES!!!11!!
so right this very second I’m on hold with comcast, the 4th time I’ve called tonight. The idiot technician who came out to install the cable card without checking to see if it actually works. So, I call tonight, to see if they can fix that. Well, actually, I call four times: 1. I talk […]
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Aug122008
More Comcast rediculousness
….so I was all excited when the Comcast Blog Monitors found my rant, hoping that I would get some resolution out of it. But no, I sent them my account info, was told “someone would be contacting me”, and that was it. Although maybe they shamed “Mrs Jefferson” into actually doing something, because she called […]
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Aug102008
Comcast says, “we have no record of your Tivo request”
O RLY? – and here’s a close up: …so guy comes to my house to install the cable. I say to him, did you bring the cable cards for the tivo? He said no, it’s not on the work order (which he doesn’t let me see until he’s “done” and leaving). But he “calls” the […]
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Aug062008
Dear Objective C
It’s called “dot notation“, and it works really well. You should check it out.
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Jul152008
Gender Bias in the MEdia Mall
check out these actual menus from the “Games” section of the crappy Cingular/AT&T Media mall thing on my cellphone: New Releases Featured Games Most Popular Free This Week Her Favorites Wedding Dash Bejeweled Text Twist Turbo Cake Mania 2: Bake Off! Diner Dash 2 Midnight Bowling Super Mah Jong Quest (sic) Collapse! Chaos Slingo Quest […]
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Jul112008
Just for the record, my wife is *not* a carpet-bagging a-hole
Although you wouldn’t know it form reading her one line in this article, which I like to call, “Hey! Did You Know New Yorkers are Dickbags Where-ever They Go? Let’s Reinforce Some Regional Stereotypes!!” I just want it stated: Jessica talked to the author for 20 minutes about how great she thought Atlanta was, and […]
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Jul022008
Stupid IE6 and its iframe cookie idiocy needs a throat punch
…so let’s say you have a site, that has two versions, a.throat-punch.com and b.throat-punch.com. And Apache uses a cookie to determine which version you should be viewing, and sends a 302 redirect if you’re on the wrong domain. Now let’s say you want to access a page on this site from an <iframe> from an […]
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Feb262008
le racisme
..so I’ve just surfaced from a couple Kafka-esque evenings spent in xbox tech support limbo. I won’t bore you with the details of why (suffice to say, Microsoft’s policy of rewarding its long-time customers by deleting their access still has some kinks to work out), but I’ve gone from xbox tech support, to xbox level […]