Take a look at http://www.trenchmice.com/. It’s a new site which I’d describe as an “enlightened” version of www.f*edcompany.com. One major difference is that people are encouraged to post about not only companies where bad things are happening, but also about companies where things are going well. Furthermore, there’s a clever community moderation system which keeps… Read More »
I’m hiring IT Engineers to work for me at Tamale Software. Tamale is a great place to work, with great people, a great product, and a great senior management team. If you’re smart and multi-talented, and your friends are always asking you to help them with their computer problems, then this may be the job for… Read More »
I recently needed to figure out how to make a Windows XP machine connect to a particular VPN automatically on reboot, before anyone logged into the machine. I eventually managed to assemble bits and pieces of information floating around the net into a working solution to the problem, but it wasn’t completely addressed in any… Read More »
Check out this site. This guy’s ex-girlfriend applied for various credit card accounts over the Web in his name while living with him for several years, grabbing the statements from the mail as they came in or signing up for paperless statements so he never found out about them, until she finally skipped town right… Read More »
To view someone else’s shared Snapfish album, you have to register as a snapfish user.
I’m trying to hire a senior software engineer for one of the teams I manage. Apparently, my standards are a bit high…
I just sent this complaint to Senator Edward Kennedy’s office through the form on his Web site:
The following is a letter I just sent to a customer support supervisor at Dell.
My wife and I finally caved in and bought a new computer for her, an iMac G5. Her old, slow PowerMac running Mac OS 9 just couldn’t cut it anymore. The slowness, crashes, hangs, and nondeterministic behavior just finally got to be too much to bear. Also, now that the kids are starting to use… Read More »
Updated 8/29/2015: And… They’re spamming me again. Now, it’s through the “salesforce marketing cloud.” I’ve unsubscribed using the link in today’s spam, and I also sent a complaint to SalesForce. We’ll see if anything comes of it (I doubt it). Updated 1/31/2006: I’ve put on-line the statement of claim I was intending to use to… Read More »