Dear Google, Stop it.
Dear Google,
Stop it.
Stop what, you ask? Stop being so damned arrogant. You’ve forgotten your own motto, “Don’t Be Evil” and you’ve missed sight of what made you the tech giant you are today.
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Oh, Comcast how I wish I could quit you
No, really, I wish I could quit you. Unfortunately, cable service is effectively a monopoly in most places. You’re the only company that can provide half way decent Internet speeds, and the only company that allows me to use a cable card for my MythTV setup.
Why, oh, why do you make it so painfully frustrating whenever you call in for any sort of issue? Your customer service people aren’t really trained to handle much more than telling people to reboot their cable boxes. And don’t even think about asking a question that isn’t answered by the script that they’re reading from.
Continue ReadingPHP Annotations are a Bad Idea
I’ve been writing code in PHP for a long time now, both for my own projects and as a freelancer. I’ve seen well written code and truly horrific code and everything in between. Much of the work I’ve done for my personal projects has been using a framework that I’ve built and …
Continue ReadingFedora 9 and KDE4 - I wanted to love them
I’ve been running Linux as my primary desktop since about 1996 (switching from OS/2 when IBM started dropping support for it), and running Linux servers since early 1994 (my first Slackware system was running Linux Kernel 0.99pl15). Over the years I’ve tried many of the various …
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