My workplace has installed Dyson Airblade hand dryers in the bathrooms. The Airblade claims to be “the fastest, most hygienic hand dryer.” In fact, the Airblade does a bad job of drying my hands, it isn’t significantly faster than the Xlerator, and it’s not particularly hygienic.
According to the AP and many other news outlets, Clarence Thomas’s wife, Virginia Thomas, recently left a voicemail message for Anita Hill in which she asked Hill to consider apologizing for “what you did with my husband.” When asked about it, Virginia Thomas said she was “extending an olive branch to her after all these… Read More »
I use Vonage telephone service and Fedora Linux. My Fedora box is the router for my network. Vonage recommends letting its box sit between the Internet and my computer, so that its traffic always gets priority. However, there’s no way I’m going to give Vonage control of Internet connection, so I have it plugged into… Read More »
Zombie botnet connection attempts to my mail server have gone down by 51% in the past four and a half months. I’ve posted more about this on my spam page, but a picture is worth a thousand words: It looks like the good guys are successfully shutting down some big botnets!
I have to confess that at this point it seems like posting examples of Citizens Bank incompetency is sort of like beating a dead horse, but here’s one that might amuse a few people. (Stay tuned for a future post about the >$300 in fees that Citizens Bank stole from me, which I’m holding off… Read More »
UPDATE [August 30, 2011]: Tony Mitchell has threatened to sue me for criticizing him on my blog. Read all the details here, and please consider chipping in a few bucks to help cover my legal defense. Thanks! UPDATE [February 7, 2011]: As others have noted, they’re now making calls under a third name, “Vandell Communications”. I can confirm that’s… Read More »
[Read the whole series of postings about Winters Plumbing here.] I posted a while back about a bogus “free safety inspection” Winters Plumbing convinced us to have, where “safety inspection” actually meant “excuse for one of our plumbers to get into your house so he can try to convince you to buy all kinds of… Read More »
Today’s update (maybe the last?) in the IsraelSims.com saga…
The parental controls built into the Mac OS X Mail client can be easily bypassed by anyone who knows the email address of the child and his/her parent. The Mail client can be fooled into adding any address to the child’s whitelist (i.e., the list of addresses with whom the child is allowed to correspond),… Read More »
Dear Terry Gross, I am a huge fan of Fresh Air. I listen to every episode. I greatly admire your interviewing skill and your obvious in-depth preparation for every interview. Having said that, I was extremely disappointed by your interview with Lawrence Wright.