At long last, the folks over at Comics Kingdom have updated their web site to fully support all of their vintage comics. This means that the comics aggregator now supports the following additional Comics Kingdom comics: Just as a reminder, to view Comics Kingdom comics through the aggregator you need to pay for a subscription,… Read More: Comics aggregator: new vintage comic support, a couple comics removed »
Several years ago I worked for a company which outsourced management of their 401k to Human Interest. It was… not a positive experience. I don’t remember all the details—I’ve worked pretty hard to forget them since they were so unpleasant—but suffice it to say that it was my impression that they weren’t terribly good at… Read More: “Human Interest” is terrible »
GoComics just rolled out a completely new web site, which broke the integration with my comics aggregator. I’ve fixed it.
As of March 30, 2025, the Phoebe and her Unicorn comic strip has transitioned from daily to Sundays-only. See what the creator of the strip, Dana Simpson has to say about it here. The comics aggregator has been updated to reflect this.
Verizon’s website and their FIOS customer onboarding processes are full of problems and have been for at least a decade. I ran into nearly 30 of them just trying to complete the simple task of signing up for FIOS service. How do they get away with this?
This morning over at The Washington Post ([archive link]), Shira Ovide, Danielle Abril, and Hannah Natanson write about Signal use among federal workers. I’m the lede (funsies!). This is a great article capturing the mood among federal workers right now, and it makes relatively clear that while what Pete Hegseth et al are doing is… Read More: WaPo article about Signal use by feds with me as… »
Comcast sent me two intimidating letters and a bogus DMCA takedown notice in a misguided effort to get me to take down content they didn’t like because it has Comcast executive email addresses in it.
If you can make it go from taking 30 seconds to 30 minutes for a bad actor to find something private about you online, you’ll dramatically decrease the number of people willing to go through the effort. Think of it like putting an alarm-system sign on your lawn to encourage burglars to skip your house.
I wrote a self-service way for my family to tell my computer to stop hogging all the download bandwidth so they can do their online meetings or gaming.
Script to prevent Newegg from subscribing me to their spam against my will.