Category Archives: Rants

Maximized windows in OSX

Several months ago, I complained about how Mac OSX’s “zoom” button is extremely inconsistent, and how the internet is full of Apple fanboys who insist that non-maximizing is The One True Way to compute and that you should just live without it, and once you get used to it you’ll like it. From Apple’s OSX… Read More »

AT&T isn’t even trying…

A while back I posted a picture of the six (!) identical postcards I received from AT&T on the same day.  That proved AT&T doesn’t filter their snail-mail to remove unnecessary mailings.  Here’s proof that they’re not filtering their e-mail advertising either: There are three sections highlighted in red there. First, they claim, “Now it’s… Read More »

On consistency

Apple seems to think that nobody ever needs to maximize their application windows.  Instead, they provide a “zoom” button, which is supposed to toggle the window between “show as much content as possible” and a user-defined (manually set) size. The problem is that this “zoom” button (which doesn’t actually zoom anything) is extremely inconsistent in… Read More »

I wish this were an April Fool’s joke…

We went to sign the closing papers for our house this morning.  At 2:30 I was informed that my lender had funded the loan.  All that was left before our realtor could give us the keys was for the title company to get the recording numbers from the recording office at the county courthouse. At… Read More »

Mobile content fraud – part 2

I just called AT&T about these charges.  He refunded the $10.67 I was charged, and cancelled the subscription. He told me that the charge was added by Verisign – confirming my googled knowledge that Jamster is at least partially owned by Verisign.  So… yet another reason to dislike Verisign. He also added a purchase control… Read More »