Posts Tagged ‘rant’
Dear Valued Customer, Since we bought out your bank that you liked and gave you a bank you never asked for in the first place, we have found that you are not giving us enough of your money. Effective in two months we will begin soaking your formerly free checking account with a $6 monthly [...]
I was looking online for my AT&T statement (which closed on Monday) and found this bit of information: it may take 8-10 days before invoice details are accessible for your online account. Please allow ample time for your bill to be available online. Eight to ten days? For what? Data fermentation? This isn’t a fine [...]
I have a 200 KB MS Word document and insert a 800 KB MS Visio document into it, giving me an 8500 KB MS Word document. I’ll update this post if I ever find out what the other 7500 KB was needed for.
* Handling fee of $8.99 – $10.99 applies. What the big print giveth, the small print taketh away…
Here is a three question quiz to see if you’ve got what it takes to be my former insurance agent. Trick Question 1 – A Word Problem Randy has five insurance policies. Randy informs his insurance agent that he will not be renewing his policies when they expire. How many policies should the insurance agent [...]
According to Jing, Simple is Beautiful. How about making your “free” software even simpler by NOT requiring me to sign up for an account to use it. Or, at least tell me, before I take the time to do it, that setting up an account on an unrelated service is required. Don’t waste your time. [...]
I keep reading in the news that Yahoo! is continuing to lose ground to Google. I can understand why. Today when my wife called to find showtimes for a theater, I remembered that Yahoo! Movies always used to have good information. So I filtered on her location, by the movie she wanted to see, and [...]
I do not understand why so many people like having a two button trackpad on their laptop. I am forever clicking the right button. Perhaps it is just the training of having a single button for so long that has convinced my thumb to rest there.
When we bought our house, we were told that the owner had done quite a bit of work to it and “he never did anything halfway.” Both of these statements are true. Unfortunately, he also never quite figured out exactly what he was doing. Like in the dining room. When his family expanded, they had [...]
Since I tend to use the mantra of trashing an email once I have dealt with it, I quite often run into needing to forward or reply to a message that I have already trashed. Most email programs handle this fairly nicely: Switch to Trash folder Find message Click Forward (or Reply) Apparently this is [...]