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Rants

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Rants · 9 min

Do not buy from Dell

Why I will not buy from Dell again: a saga of failed cancellations, lost rewards, wrong shipping addresses, and useless chat support.

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Rants · 4 min

The problems with sending a lot of emails.

Notes on running EveryDayFiction.com: the cost and deliverability headache of sending 2 million daily story emails a month.

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Rants · 4 min

A response to Life tracking and Quantified Self movement.

My life-tracking setup: Google Calendar for every event, phone alarms for sleep, and a spreadsheet of daily habit points.

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Rants · 1 min

How a Greyhound employee stole alcohol from my checked luggage.

Open letter to Greyhound after a Seattle baggage checker confiscated two bottles of 12-year scotch from my checked luggage.

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Rants · 1 min

BEWARE! ShareMouse, MaxiVista, Bartels Media == Crapwear

Rant about ShareMouse and Bartels Media selling crapware that disables itself behind a paywall after you set it up.

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Rants · 2 min

Why I hate TeamViewer

Why I stopped paying for TeamViewer after version 6 was bricked by forced upgrades, and what I switched to.

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Rants · 1 min

Host gator has bad security and sucks.

HostGator emailed back my forgotten password in plain text, proving they store credentials unhashed in their billing database.

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Rants · 1 min

Translink sucks in Vancouver

Complaint number 25 to TransLink this year after the 2568 bus rolled past stop 58125 with riders waving at it.

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Rants · 1 min

Rental Guide are bad people, and suck.

A warning about Vancouver's Rental Guide, who advertise fake listings and sell a craigslist-rescraping service.

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Rants · 2 min

How to be distracted

A play-by-play of how one Facebook reply, a Wikipedia rabbit hole, and a game of Winbolo killed an entire day.

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Rants · 1 min

Ping and pong

A short note on why the ping and pong handshake is a quietly beautiful piece of network design.

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Rants · 2 min

Abluestar.com privacy statment

A blunt parody privacy statement for Abluestar.com that says all data is collected, kept, and sold on request.

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Rants · 3 min

InkPop.com, Are spammers and a security risk for their users. DONT USE THEM. They suck

Rant about InkPop.com sending repeat SEO pitch spam and storing user passwords in plain text.

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Rants · 1 min

Netburner http weird errors - Daily WTF

Fixing a batch of undefined-reference linker errors in a Netburner HTTP project by adding an /http/index.html file.

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Rants · 1 min

A perfect example of why you should use the same password on different websites.

Plenty of Fish stored passwords in plain text and got hacked, which is why reusing that password on Facebook is a bad idea.

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Rants · 2 min

Skullcandy head phones are not compatible...

Skullcandy support told me my Hesh headphones only work with iPhone 4 and Xbox 360, which is absurd for a wire and a speaker.

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Rants · 5 min

Our privacy policy: We sell your data. You get our content for free, Deal?

A blunt walkthrough of what a website operator can actually learn about you from HTTP headers, cookies, IPs, and user agents.

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Rants · 1 min

Anther reason why paypal sucks

PayPal froze the Flux Foundation donation account after five months, blocking funds raised for the Temple of Flux art project.

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Rants · 4 min

Why dont we have free phones yet?

A rant on Canadian carrier monopolies and a thought experiment about a mesh-networked open phone with no cell towers.

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Rants · 2 min

UPS vs FedEx

A cross-border shipping rant about a $13 UPS Ground order that turned into $53 once the brokerage fees landed at the door.

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