Entries from October 2005

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

Dear Financial Services Company

You suck. No, you REALLY suck. Your website sucks. Your phone service sucks. The fact that I have a problem with your website and your “customer service” is automated and keeps telling me to go back to it sucks. Why on earth would I ever give you another dime of my money? I could tell [...]

Sunday, October 23rd, 2005

A classic example of crappy web design

or rather, form over function This is the website for LaVita É Bella, a restaurant in Seattle. find their hours.

Saturday, October 22nd, 2005

Jakob Nielsen has written a top ten list of blog mistakes

and like his top ten web mistakes, this is a must read. Here is the article on alertbox As usual, there are some things I agree with and will think about doing: Author Biography and photo Classic hits are buried Mixing topics Some things that don’t work for me: nondescript titles (this makes sense for [...]

Saturday, October 22nd, 2005

Damn you spammers are good

I love seeing the new spammers techniques I’ve had the same e-mail address for 10+ years now. I had it long before the first spam was ever sent and while I’ve added new secret and non-published e-mail addresses over the years, I still read mail at my old address which has become a spam honey [...]

Saturday, October 22nd, 2005

The failure of the Bush administration

what will damn the Bush administration in the history books This week the numbers revealed that one of George Bush’s main policy initiatives, The No Child Left Behind Act, was making school performance worse, not better. Add to this his fiscal policy which has resulted in causing a debt that will take decades to repay [...]

Wednesday, October 19th, 2005

In the world of humorous punk… one band is often overlooked

Schlong! Their Punk Side Story album and Tumours 7″ are absolutely worth tracking down. Punk Side Story is, of course, West Side Story done punk-style. Tumours is the entire Fleetwood Mac Rumours album done in a 7″. Remember when bands used to do fun things like that? What the hell happened to that?

Wednesday, October 19th, 2005

iTunes 6

a humble review I’ve been a happy iTunes user for years now. When iTunes 4.9 came out, I ditched iPodderX because even though iTunes wasn’t as powerful, it was nicely integrated. Then iTunes 5 came out with the Nano and it looked ugly and didn’t have anything of interest to me, plus there were lots [...]

Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

A blog motto?

I’ve been thinking about adding a blog motto to my pages… How is: “Sarcasm and vitriol wrapped in a twee bow”

Sunday, October 16th, 2005

The worst part about spammers spoofing your domain

is as you see each bounced message you realize that someone new has probably blacklisted you. Thanks a bunch, jackasses.

Thursday, October 13th, 2005

Apple’s big announcement

some observations… I’m surprised that they aren’t selling the remote and Front Row software as part of iLife. The eMac has disappeared. The iMac is really being pushed at the high school/college/graduated-but-living-in-a-studio-apartment set. I was surprised that they didn’t add a TV-in to the iMac as well. I think some of the fake video iPod [...]