USAA: Willful harassment and lies (2006/03/09)
One of my friends has the tragic misfortune to have a credit card with “USAA”, who are a business. Probably; there’s some debate about their legal status.
[read more...]The Dove Foundation: Lying telemarketers (2006/03/07)
So, we got a phone call from some lying telemarketer scum. They asked to speak to “the lady of the house”. (We don’t have one.) I told them not to call. A while later, they called again. We told them not to call.
[read more...]AMD processor goes belly-up zeroing memory (2006/03/07)
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Today's funny spam (2006/02/28)
Got this today, found it amusing:
[read more...]Please phish our customers, 'k? thx! lol (2006/02/26)
Citibank sent me something.
[read more...]Making sense of Fred Phelps (2006/02/25)
Everyone uses Fred Phelps as an example of conservative Christian bigotry and hatred. I even used to; he’s certainly walked the walk for many years.
[read more...]Yay! Free of Sprint's clutches at last! (2006/02/25)
Okay, so, long ago (1997, in fact), I decided that it was about time for me to consider a cell phone. I ended up going with Sprint PCS, one of the early competitors in the then-new digital phone market.
[read more...]You win. (2006/02/22)
Until such time as the comment spammers give up, or comment-spam-prevention improves, there are no comments on my blog.
[read more...]Source finished! (2006/02/16)
I sorta spaced off mentioning this. See, every time I come to my blog, it’s buried in unapproved comments, 99.5% of which are spam. I’m lucky to get one comment per two hundred which isn’t spam. Spam has random plausible names on it, and comment bodies like “Pending Very interesting site, beautiful design, thank.” (attributed to “Nelly”). I have to skim it and delete it ALL to find the one comment from an actual person.
[read more...]How to do backlash like an adult (2006/02/15)
So, as you’ve doubtless already heard, there’s been some anger about cartoons allegedly offensive to Muslims, and a large Iranian newspaper decided that the best way to get back at the Danes for not having clear policies against offending people was to, get this, have a contest for Holocaust cartoons. Because, you know, Denmark is almost entirely Jewish, or something.
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