Bad healthcare tech of the day: Boston Children’s Hospital patient portal
The user experience for registering for the portal and checking in for appointments is riddled with problems. We deserve better.
Category Archives: Internet
“Mother Goose & Grimm” fixed in the comics aggregator
The comic strip Mother Goose & Grimm stopped working in the comics aggregator about a week ago because the author stopped publishing new strips on grimmy.com. I’ve modified the aggregator to pull the strip from gocomics.com instead, so it’s working again. Thank you to the aggregator user who let me know about the problem so… Read More »
Any advice on dealing with a bogus trademark infringement claim sent to Google?
Someone told Google that my “LInkedIn Jobs Filterer” Chrome extension violates LinkedIn’s trademark. It doesn’t. What can I do about it, when I can’t afford to pay lawyers to defend a free, open-source extension?
Why is PayPal still so incredibly awful?
Even if you jump through all of PayPal’s hoops and give them all the information they ask for when creating an account, they may still decide to arbitrarily lock you out of your account and never restore your access.
Carolyn Hax live chat for July 28 fixed in comics aggregator
If you read Carolyn Hax through the comics aggregator (and you really should, she’s amazing!), you may have noticed that there was no live chat listed on July 28, or on July 29 if you read the one-day-delayed version of her feed (which you probably should, because it’s faster and more reliable). This is because… Read More »
“The Argyle Sweater” added to comics aggregator
At a reader’s request, I’ve added The Argyle Sweater from GoComics to the comics aggregator. I’d never heard of this comic before receiving this request, and when I went to look at it I laughed out loud at all of its five most recent comics, so I’ve also added it to my own daily comics… Read More »
How a bad password policy at Bank of America reduces security
When you force people to use hard-to-remember passwords, you’re actually forcing them to use bad passwords.
“Break of Day” added to comics aggregator
A new strip from Comics Kingdom, drawn by Nate Fakes.
“Comiclicious” added to comics aggregator
A new strip from Comics Kingdom, drawn by Olivera Vukovic.
“God’s Hands” and “The Planet Syndicate” added to comics aggregator, “Mara Llave” removed
A new strip from Comics Kingdom.