ChristianForums case study: Annabel Lee (2006/11/09)
I’m going to use an example here, but I have to give you a caveat first: One of the CF staff, some time after this, came out and gave a real apology for it. In a very real sense, this offense has been addressed.
[read more...]ChristianForums, 2002-2003 (2006/11/09)
It’s funny to imagine that this was the good old days. (And given how far back it is, and that no one realized back then how crucial it was to save everything in case it got deleted, I may have some subtle errors. Feel free to submit corrections, ideally with documentation. Alleged corrections submitted without supporting evidence will be remarked on, but not necessarily accepted as truth.) Throughout this article, there’s some references to “Erwin” – that’s Erwin Loh, founder of “Loh Enterprises”, which is the company that actually owns CF legally. Erwin is an Australian member of a Willow Creek church. His management of CF is often influenced by his lack of involvement with a lot of American politics.
[read more...]The saga of ChristianForums (2006/11/08)
So, ChristianForums. It’s this site I spent a lot of time at for a bit over four and a half years.
[read more...]Virtue is its own reward, but this is just awesome (2006/11/01)
When I was a kid, when I was really sick, there was no help for it but to pick up a 4-pack of “Jamaican Olde Tyme” ginger beer. Good ginger beer is something special; it’s sweet, but also genuinely spicy – spicy enough that you find yourself wanting a cold drink to wash it down with, sometimes. Unfortunately, so far as I can tell, the product is long gone.
[read more...]Windows, again. (2006/10/08)
So, Fireball’s computer is acting up. Can’t play videos. Research reveals that it can maybe play them with acceleration turned off, which leads to the discovery that the BIOS is not assigning an interrupt to the video card.
[read more...]NetBSD on an Intel-based Mac mini (2006/10/07)
Quick summary: NetBSD-current loads and runs beautifully on the Intel-based Mac mini.
[read more...]Integris Mortgage: Dumb and arrogant (2006/10/04)
This looks like it’s gonna be a fun one. Will we get the madness and intensity of another Source Lending? The incoherence and babbling lunacy of Complex Capital? Only time will tell.
[read more...]Junk faxes and "the little guy" (2006/09/30)
I just created a separate category for fax-related (and spam-related) articles in my blog. It’s been over three years now since I first sued a junk faxer.
[read more...]Satcom: We make up for incompetence with rudeness! (2006/09/14)
Okay, so, I did, sort of, get the call back from SatCom.
[read more...]Routing calls at its finest (2006/09/14)
So, we got some junk mail, which was interesting only in that, while it was addressed to my company, it was also addressed to our health benefits manager. By name.
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