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Archive for the 'Rants' Category

Siege

Friday, June 15th, 2007

Make it stop. Read more.

Adobe “Customer Service”

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

Customer disservice. Read more.

Company are Doing Stuff

Thursday, July 6th, 2006

I are smart. Read more.

Font Resource

Friday, June 10th, 2005

Over at FileFormat.info there is a pretty cool resource for finding Unicode characters. For example: the inverted Ohm sign. They’ve got character codes, a Java reference, raster and vector files of the character, and more. That’s a lot of data for just one character.
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Leakage

Thursday, March 31st, 2005

How did the web seep so far into e-mail? Read more.

Memorex Black CD-R Changes

Sunday, February 6th, 2005

Bad idea. Read more.

State Speed Limit

Saturday, June 12th, 2004

Somebody explain this to me. Read more.

Unemployment Starts at Home

Sunday, December 21st, 2003

I’ve just read yet another article on US outsourcing to Asia for more and more IT jobs. Specifically, Corporate America’s Silent Partner: India, via Slashdot. From the article:
True, corporations likely won’t feel comfortable about openly talking about their offshore activities until job growth returns to the U.S.
Job growth? In the US? This is in an [...] Read more.

The Word is “Excess”

Wednesday, August 6th, 2003

We have a new resident in the University Commons parking lot. Read more.

On Bragging

Sunday, July 13th, 2003

I twitch. Read more.

Dock Annoyances

Sunday, June 29th, 2003

“An application should always present a window when its Dock icon is clicked.” Does anyone else find this feature slightly annoying? Read more.