Email disclaimers
Thursday, October 29th, 2009 Posted in Miscellaneous, Rants | No Comments »Today I got an email from an Australian company and noticed two things at the bottom of their email. The first was the ever-silly "Go Green - please consider the environment before printing this e-mail." line. Does putting this in ...
Google doesn’t trust us with our search queries anymore
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 Posted in Rants, Web products | 4 Comments »A trend I've noticed lately is that Google selectively ignores and "reimagines" my search terms. (actually, it also habitually drops my search entirely. There are bugs in both the new Google toolbar, and a bug in iGoogle that goes back at ...
How not to run customer support
Monday, September 15th, 2008 Posted in Consumer issues, Rants | No Comments »I just got back from vacation last week. It was a whirlwind tour of Norway, Denmark, Belgium and the UK. I had a great time, sampling a lot of beer and seeing a lot of cool places. At the start of ...
How to name a startup
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008 Posted in Rants, Web products | 1 Comment »Since I started working in the Silicon Valley, I've been exposed to a huge number of companies which would not normally show up on my radar. One thing I've noticed is the naming conventions seemingly followed by everyone. Startup ...
When geeks bite back
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted in Bay Area, Rants, Tech issues | 1 Comment »Very interesting article on news.com about Sarah Lacy's interview of Mark Zuckerberg, from Facebook. I've seen some pretty atrocious interviews, keynotes, panels and presentations in my time, but this is right up there when you think of the scope. ...
Google Reader and other Google products
Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Posted in Rants, Site recommendations | 1 Comment »Miles has been a long time fan of Google Reader, but it's only been recently that I converted to using it full time. I found that I was visiting the same blogs several times a day to see what was new. ...
Passengers to start getting fingerprinted at Heathrow
Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Posted in Consumer issues, Rants | No Comments »In another life I was an information security tutor. Security is such a fascinating topic, both to teach and learn. I can't get enough of it, and routinely end up taking part in security decisions at my company, ...
Steve Job’s cancer went unreported for 9 months
Thursday, March 6th, 2008 Posted in Rants | No Comments »Why? Because he was busy trying new age garbage to try and treat it. Guess how that worked out for him. It turns out that doctors found the the tumor in October of 2003 during a routine scan. While ...
Kicking myself over the new NIN album
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 Posted in Rants | No Comments »The other night I had the opportunity to buy the $300 superdeluxe edition of the new NIN album, Ghosts I-IV. I had my credit card details entered and everything: Deluxe edition plus a four-LP set on 180-gram vinyl, which is ...
Awful baby names
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 Posted in Rants | No Comments »One of my pet peeves is the terrible "unique" baby names people give their children, ensuring a lifetime of confusion and taunts. As much as I dislike linking to news.com.au (for reasons I am sure to go into in another ranty ...
