Nov 30
GW likes to take a couple people with him whenever he travels…
…as he should be doing. He’s the PRESIDENT for crying out loud. And some people say this is excessive.
Nov 16
EyelessWriter.com called Verizon Wireless 56 times and asked 2 simple questions. Out of all 56 people, only 1 actually answered both questions correctly. In fact, the reps were wrong 93% of the time. That’s a lot. I’m a Verizon Wireless customer and I’ve found them to make up numbers every once in a while, but this is ridiculous.
Actually, after thinking about this for a while it seems that the problem isn’t only that employees can be clueless, but that they were trained improperly. When the correct answer was $0.002 (2 tenths of a cent), most of the answers had a 2 and some zeros, but the decimal was in the wrong place. The reps who answered correctly said “point zero zero two dollars“. Perhaps that’s how they were trained to say it. But since the question was “how many cents” some of the reps probably messed up the decimal. I’m not trying to make excuses for them, though. 93% incorrect is absolutely horrible. Inexcusable. Horrendous. Substandard. Mediocre. Negligent. Incompetent. Yet strangely funny.
Nov 08
I didn’t make this but it’s still funny!
Oct 19
Oct 13
I don’t usually use Windows, but at school last Friday this thing popped up when I logged in. I took a quick screen shot and saved it to my flash drive. LOL. Nobody else around me got it, so I guess I have to explain this.
OpenOffice.org is a gnu (open-source) alternative to Microsoft Office. It was developed specifically to be free, and always will be. It runs on the Java platform, so obviously Sun (the company that develops Java) has decided to use it as promotional material. Just goes to show you how notoriously annoying Java can be. Its not that JRE (Java Runtime Enviroment) is bad, but I hate that every time it updates itself it installs a new version on a different place in my system without uninstalling the old one. You can even see this in action in the screenshot: there are two icons for 2 different running versions of JRE.
Aug 13
Two funny sites about cats:
KittenWar.com -
You see 2 pictures of different cats, then you click on the one you like better. Simple and gets boring fast, but worth a laugh to see the funny-looking kittens.
ICANHASCHEEZBURGER.com -
teh funstest. The best of lolzcats.com organized neatly in a easy to navigate blog. lolcatz make the funniest single-picture comics but its impossible to navigate their site. icanhascheeseburger is much better.
Aug 13
“You literally just click on the application’s icon and the programs opens right there for you on the screen… in a matter of minutes”
Ahhh yes. This kind of precision and dedication is exactly why I still use Windows 95. Yes, this is a prime example of how Microsoft is painstakingly porting last decade’s technology into our modern computers for our own enjoyment. Yes, MS Paint is the future.
Aug 06
Whoever is directing this, please, stop for a moment and think. Just think about it. Is the world really ready to end? Please, just stop. Do not make this movie. Please.
Jun 27
So the Apple iPhone is coming at 6pm this Saturday (June 29), and most people are pretty excited. Everywhere you look, iPhone, iPhone, iPhone; it’s inescapable.
Gizmodo.com was nice enough to make a list of the features the iPhone will NOT have.
- Songs as Ringtones
- Games
- Any flash support
- Instant Messaging
- Picture messages (MMS)
- Video recording
- Voice recognition or voice dialing
- Wireless Bluetooth Stereo Streaming (A2DP)
- One-size-fits-all headset jack (May have to buy an adapter for certain headphones)
Interesting. I’m just disappointed that the iPhone is AT&T only. I have Verizon, which is actually better service, but never has any of the really cool phones. But if it makes a call, I guess that’s all that counts, right? An iPhone would be nice, though. Seriously, though, didn’t Jobs promise when he first revealed the iPhone that it would have Adobe Flash and Java support? Whatever happened to that? and if it has a camera and the AT&T plan includes “visual voicemail” (whatever the heck that is), why can’t it record videos?