Gripes
Posted on August 15th, 2007 05:16 PM | Comments (2) | Pings (0)On the topic of things I’m not happy with, two more.
The following entries were written in the Business category:
Parking
Posted on March 15th, 2007 04:10 PM | Comments (2) | Pings (0)I wanted to write this down in case Google should send anyone considering living at Graduate Hills and Gardens my way. These are the graduate apartments owned by the University of Maryland and operated by the (evil) Southern Management Corporation.
Dead Like Me
Posted on December 13th, 2005 12:51 AMPings (0)Watching some TV the other day, Simon noticed that two of the actors from Dead Like Me are now in drug commercials. Both Mandy Patinkin and Greg Kean have been showing up in drug commercials talking to the camera while they wander about an abstract set. Doesn’t this seem a bit strange? Can the other Dead Like Me stars be far behind?
The Grokster Ruling
Posted on June 28th, 2005 06:46 PMPings (0)When I heard last night that the Supreme Court had made a ruling in favor of MGM in the Grokster case, I was pretty upset. This is clearly an issue of a technology that has enormous potential for legal uses, and is therefore covered by the 1984 Sony decision. As it turns out, that’s what the court of appeals thought, too, and it’s rather irrelevant in this case.
Nikon is fucking up big time on this RAW debacle. The refuse to engage the community of their users, and it’s utterly frustrating. Engadget’s recent interview with Steve Heiner, head of Nikon’s DSLR group, had an obnoxious cut-in by Nikon public relations trying to avoid saying anything at all about the RAW issue, or Adobe’s DNG format.
Cellular Switch
Posted on November 27th, 2004 10:29 PMPings (0)Goodbye AT&T, hello T-Mobile.
Credit Cards
Posted on September 1st, 2004 03:09 AMPings (0)Credit card companies are evil.
I hate AT&T. They have become an obstacle to my continued happiness….
More economy news
Posted on September 25th, 2002 11:57 AMPings (0)Ah. How comforting to see that the NASDAQ has reverted to levels not seen since before I started working in 1996. It’s as if the whole dot-com thing was just a memory….
The New Economy
Posted on September 23rd, 2002 05:01 AMPings (0)I just logged into My Yahoo! for the first time in a great while, and thought it was funny that of all the stock symbols I used to track daily, a significant number of them do not exist anymore. Granted,…