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 »
An article I read recently claimed it’s dumb to buy refurbished hard drives for your NAS because “refurbished drives were returned because they weren’t working, so why would you want your precious data stored on them.” This is dumb. Let’s talk about why.
The printer I got from Printronix was terrible, the company was unable to resolve any of the issues with it, I ended up returning it for a full refund (part of which I was only able to obtain via a credit card dispute), and I discourage anyone who stumbles across this blog posting from doing business with this company. I didn’t think a printer company could annoy me more than HP does nowadays, but Printronix succeeded.
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 »
Sometimes Synology Drive Client just stops synchronizing files down from the server without telling you that there’s anything wrong. This is bad.
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 »
The TIME article contains two substantive errors, several minor errors, and a curious omission.