Rants
20 postsDo 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.
Read postThe 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.
Read postA 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.
Read postHow 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.
Read postBEWARE! ShareMouse, MaxiVista, Bartels Media == Crapwear
Rant about ShareMouse and Bartels Media selling crapware that disables itself behind a paywall after you set it up.
Read postWhy I hate TeamViewer
Why I stopped paying for TeamViewer after version 6 was bricked by forced upgrades, and what I switched to.
Read postHost gator has bad security and sucks.
HostGator emailed back my forgotten password in plain text, proving they store credentials unhashed in their billing database.
Read postTranslink sucks in Vancouver
Complaint number 25 to TransLink this year after the 2568 bus rolled past stop 58125 with riders waving at it.
Read postRental Guide are bad people, and suck.
A warning about Vancouver's Rental Guide, who advertise fake listings and sell a craigslist-rescraping service.
Read postHow 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.
Read postPing and pong
A short note on why the ping and pong handshake is a quietly beautiful piece of network design.
Read postAbluestar.com privacy statment
A blunt parody privacy statement for Abluestar.com that says all data is collected, kept, and sold on request.
Read postInkPop.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.
Read postNetburner 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.
Read postA 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.
Read postSkullcandy 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.
Read postOur 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.
Read postAnther reason why paypal sucks
PayPal froze the Flux Foundation donation account after five months, blocking funds raised for the Temple of Flux art project.
Read postWhy 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.
Read postUPS 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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