Posts Tagged ‘rant’

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 […]

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 at 16:32 | 0 comments
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According to [Jing](http://www.jingproject.com/), 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. […]

Sunday, May 16th, 2010 at 22:03 | 0 comments
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I keep reading in the news that [Yahoo!][1] is continuing to lose ground to [Google][2]. I can understand why. Today when my wife called to find showtimes for a theater, I remembered that [Yahoo! Movies][3] always used to have good information. So I filtered on her location, by the movie she wanted to see, and […]

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 at 17:36 | 0 comments
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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.

Thursday, March 26th, 2009 at 14:12 | 0 comments
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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 […]

Monday, February 16th, 2009 at 19:01 | 0 comments
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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: 1. Switch to Trash folder 2. Find message 3. Click Forward (or Reply) […]

Thursday, February 5th, 2009 at 09:48 | 0 comments
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While the [Citibank][0] Credit Card website does have a few good features (like being able to download PDFs of your statements), it does have one thing that I absolutely hate. Enough so that I complained about it to their customer service: > The “Select a Payment Date” portion of making an online payment is misleading […]

Saturday, January 31st, 2009 at 20:22 | 0 comments
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There was a new edict dropped in my work e-mail mailbox this morning: > As part of our strategy to reduce costs and protect the environment, all color Xerox multi-function devices at the site are now set by default to print in black and white. If we limit our printing to only those documents we […]

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 at 08:10 | 0 comments
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[This guy][2] is mad because his car (he bought used) is out of warranty and GM wants to charge him to fix it. I would try to point out the logical flaws in his argument, but he doesn’t provide any logic. The customer is not always right and you sir, are an idiot. _Response to […]

Saturday, January 24th, 2009 at 08:02 | 0 comments
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Microsoft Word has a way of making disk space magically disappear: 1. Start with an `89 KB` Word Document. 2. Insert an object, a `3675 KB` Visio Document. 3. End with a `22,380 KB` Word Document. Amazing!

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 at 08:32 | 0 comments
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