In a letter to the editor in today’s Boston Herald, Harry Shuris of Winchester mocked the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission for forcing a recall of a novelty chair decorated with lead paint. His letter ended as follows: Message to the USCPSC: Pencils contain “excessive amounts of lead.” I would venture to say that at… Read More: Ignorance on parade in today’s Herald »
If you administer a GNU Mailman installation, you are probably aware that message footers don’t always work quite right: if a message submitted to a list is entirely plain text with no attachments, then the footer is fine, but if it’s formatted in HTML or has attachments, then the footer is added to the message… Read More: Solving the GNU Mailman MIME message footer problem »
Here’s what they printed: A loser’s game The condition of our economy proves the absurdity of John Stossel’s argument that gambling should be legal because, “People are responsible for the consequences of their bad habits” (“Is it your choice to gamble? You betcha!” May 14). We’re digging ourselves out of the worst recession since 1929… Read More: My letter about gambling in today’s Boston Herald »
As I commented following my recent posting about slimy recruiter High Tech Ventures, I filed a complaint with the BBB about them a month ago. According to the BBB, “We have written to the business two times on your behalf and we have failed to receive a response to your complaint.” Please, folks, do not… Read More: High Tech Ventures blows off the BBB »
Yet another chapter in the saga of the political spam I can’t seem to put a stop to, courtesy of ex-Congressman Robert Wexler. I’ve just been spammed by Scott Maddox, who is running for Florida Commissioner of Agriculture & Consumer Services. Like I care!
I recently rebuilt my workhorse PC at home after a contractor fried my old one by plugging a sheetrock saw into my UPS. One of the new components I bought was a Hitachi Deskstar 1TB hard drive. The drive comes with a three-year warranty. Less than six months later, the drive began to fail, and… Read More: Think twice before buying a Hitachi hard drive »
Movements are underway all over the world to ban the wearing in public of the burqa, the niqab, and other garments worn by some Muslim women. Most recently, the lower house of Belgium’s parliament has just passed a burqa ban, although it will not become law unless / until it is also passed by the… Read More: Banning the burka »
A few minutes ago, I got the following email message from Ed at High Tech Ventures, a recruiting firm I have trashed on my blog in the past: Subject: Company Name specs I placed the cto. He’s a great guy and asked me to help with a couple engineering roles. I’ve attached the job specs.… Read More: High Tech Ventures strikes again »
As I recently wrote, my wife and I have been shopping for mattresses at Jordan’s Furniture. We still haven’t settled on a mattress to buy, but one thing that was very obvious to us the first time we tried them out was that our old bed pillows were awful, and we walked out of Jordan’s… Read More: The Jordan’s king-size pillow that wasn’t »
[Read the whole series of postings about Winters Plumbing here.] We hired Winters Plumbing about six months ago to replace our heating system (old ducts in basement needed to be removed due to peeling asbestos, and while we were at it we went ahead and replaced the furnace as well). After the job was done,… Read More: Beware the “free safety inspection” from your plumber »