Entries from Geeky Baldisms tagged with 'annoyances'
The Rites of Fall
College football has sadly become quite boring and predictable. Let me give you the rundown on how this season will go: The (insert SEC team here) will have their adoring local sportswriters announce that the (insert fractional Louisiana team here)...
Tiger Woods Returns to the Masters...Duh!
The calculatedness of Tiger Woods is amazing. He knows just how many tournaments to play in in order to maximize his effectiveness for the majors. He also know what tournaments require his presence, for contractual reasons or for maximum public...
Michael Irvin and the Art of Slime
Well, at presstime, another woman has accused Michael Irvin of rape. Irvin has the following incidents on his record: March 1996: cocaine possession at a hotel party celebrating his 30th birthday. Irvin showing up to court in a full-length mink...
Oh My Dear Lord, What's Happened to Windows Server?
At my workplace, I've managed to integrate Linux and Active Directory so that I can use AD groups to control access to intranet sites. That was quite a breakthrough, allowing me to move my MySQL/PHP-driven apps onto Linux, where they...
Running Windows Server? I Admire Your Patience!
I run a Windows XP virtual machine (VMWare) that was living on a three-year-old Dell 2950 server with dual Xeons, six gigs of RAM, and Windows Server 2003. I say WAS. That machine was a dog. It was as slow...
Crappy Customer Service
Update: HSBC claims that I didn't request my credit balance to be mailed to me on 6/24/2009, the day I closed this account. In other words, they claim that I closed my account and, in essence, told them to keep...
The RIAA and the Art of Not Getting It
In 2007, The Consumerist held a poll and determined that the RIAA was the single most hated company in America. Gee, sue a few grandmothers and grade-school-age kids, and all of a sudden the world gets all testy about you....
The Microsoft Ship Begins to List
McDonald's is #1 in the fast food industry. They dominate, but not overwhelmingly so. Burger King made inroads several years back to knock the golden arches off of their perch at #1. During this time, they attacked McDonald's by name...
The Silverlight Blight
Problem: Flash sucks. Microsoft solution: create a proprietary standard that doesn't suck quite as much. It will work great on XP and Vista. Oh, and Mac has made some serious inroads on our desktop, we'd better make it play nice...
R.I.P. Dreamweaver
Dreamweaver, we hardly knew ye. Yes, you can still purchase a copy of Dreamweaver, currently the appropriately named version CS4, from its new owners, Adobe. But for all practical purposes, the web development package is dead. Macromedia's web editors and...
Joomla'ed Out
Joomla looked like the perfect contact management system for me. Back in 2006, I created a bonzer site for a Realtor based on Mamboserver. Its backend interface was weird beyond belief, but I was impressed with what I was able...
Four Annoying Things about Sports
I was a baseball fanatic when I was nine years old. And lately, my forty-year-old love for the St. Louis Cardinals has outweighed my contempt for the rest of the sport, although I must confess to actually watching my first...
Bad Sportswriting
[rant on] You know, nobody likes a whiner/complainer. That's why I'm really reluctant to make postings like this, because it's basically whining/complaining on my part. But sometimes I get good and mad and have to vent. Where I live, there...
Sue Microsoft for Spam Bots?
While reading the latest spam crisis report, a thought occurred to me. This world is incredibly litigation-happy. If some yutz injures himself doing something foolish and dangerous, he's liable to hire a lawyer and go after someone, and sure enough,...
AdBlock Plus vs. AdSense
I use Firefox exclusively.One of Firefox's most popular extensions is AdBlock plus. AdBlock plus, by default, blocks Google ads. That means that webmasters like myself, who allow text ads on their site (including Google AdSense) are now seeing their revenue...
Let's All Weep for Barry Bonds
Barry Bonds can't get a job. A recent Sports Illustrated article outlined the steroid user's travails in that no team wants him. His agent (who would apparently deal with the devil himself) is talking about investigating the possibility of collusion....
ZDNet, What's up with Ed Bott and His Comment Section?
Some of my earliest, happiest memories of computing involve the fine folks over at ZDNet. From the mega-cool PCMag utilities to the excellent informative journalism that is found in their print publications, my overall impression of this publishing house is...
Vista to Firefox: Thou Shalt Not!
A non-computer-literate (that sounds less harsh than computer-illiterate ;-) friend asked me for some advice yesterday. He told me that his virus scanner was popping up and bugging him for money to stay current. I told him I'd come over...
R.I.P. RIAA
When Hitler was in the midst of gaining world domination, he underestimated an enemy. Germany's rousing defeat at the hands of Russia during the winter of 1942-43 was the beginning of the end of the Nazi regime. The RIAA, a...
Will Microsoft Ever Figure this Out?
There are a smattering of I Love Windows Vista websites out there. However, these are dwarfed into insignificance by the legions of those who are unimpressed to a greater or lesser degree. I don't run Vista, I never intend to....
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