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The Five People You Meet in Web 2.0 Hell

May 7th, 2008 · No Comments · venting

38-year-old Eddie is convinced his digital life would be better upon meeting five types of people and showing them the unexpected negative impact they have on others:
The Under-Tagger – This guy would spend a week going through old video cassettes, finding the amazing CNN footage from 1983 he was looking for, but upon uploading it [...]

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Yahoo Rewards Sarcasm

February 8th, 2008 · No Comments · 100% vent free

A year ago I wasted some time answering questions on Yahoo! Answers. It is a fun system that lets people ask questions and get answers from their peers. You can gain points if your answer is chosen as Best Answer by the person who asked the question, or else if it is voted as such by [...]

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Ode to My Browser – or – Why I Love My Opera

January 17th, 2008 · No Comments · 100% vent free

Vincent: You know what the funniest thing about Europe is?
Jules: What?
Vincent: It’s the little differences. I mean they got the same shit over there that they got here, but it’s just - it’s just there it’s a little different.
– Vincent Vega (John Travolta), Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) – Pulp Fiction (1994)
I was going to [...]

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Why frgdr.com Changed Its Hosting Provider from Yahoo to GoDaddy - Follow-up #1

January 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment · venting

I recently transferred my hosting from Yahoo to GoDaddy and elaborated on the reasons that led me to this inevitable move after a couple of years of gradually increasing disappointments from the Sunnyvale company.
As somewhat of a computer geek, I never thought I would need assistance from the customer support department, and never thought it [...]

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