Posted in Rants on Oct 21st, 2010
Coffee drinkers tend to stick to the same type of coffee once they find something they like. I happen to be a Dunkin Donuts fan while my wife likes $tarbuck$. I’m not a heavy coffee drinker by any means; in fact I don’t have more then a half dozen cups a week. I usually just [...]
Posted in Rants on Sep 1st, 2010
About a week ago Digg.com unveiled its latest redesign (“version 4.0“) along with some changes in the way the site works. I first noticed this when I went to check Digg’s mobile website and saw that it looked like something was broken. Little did I know that the entire site had changed, and as many [...]
If you’re a regular visitor to msnbc.com you may or may not have noticed the recent changes to their website. At first it appears as if there were only minor cosmetic changes to the header of the page but upon closer inspection you’ll notice something else – a ridiculous choice of content placement. The first [...]
Posted in Rants on May 27th, 2010
Google released version 5 of Chrome this week which they claim is faster then ever. It also comes with a bunch of other updates like syncing bookmarks and preferences, incognito mode for extensions, and more HTML5 support to name a few. It’s lean, it’s mean and it works great. So why isn’t it my default [...]
Posted in Rants, Uncategorized on May 21st, 2010
Why is it that my stupid “smart” phone doesn’t have the brains to dial my own area code when I ‘m outside Verizon’s coverage circle? I work in an office that somehow lies about 100 yards outside Verizon’s coverage, and whenever I try to call a number in my contacts list that I didn’t enter [...]