Events in which I took part in or witnessed.
Ah, ineptitude.com. Just the name conjures up a certain… well, lack of something. And boy, does this website deliver on that promise! For those of you stumbling upon this digital wasteland for the first time, perhaps lured in by the intriguing name, let me offer a brief history. Back in the early 2000s, this domain was apparently intended to be a repository of things that…
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Searching for the phrase “search engine” within several popular search engines generates some surprising results. While I thought that each search engine would list themselves first within their results, that wasn’t necessarily the case. Below is a list of search engines along the first 5 results of searching for the phrase, “search engine”. The number following the search engine name is the position that search…
Everybody either knows somebody on a diet or is on a diet themselves. Why? Because the United States is one of the fattest countries on the block. While food labels have been standardized to make it easier to obtain nutritional information, I find them to be extremely deceptive and misleading, even if you are trying to do the right thing. When I go to to…
Privacy has being a very hot topic over the last several years. Every company has some sort of privacy policy which is supposed to protect us. But how well does it work and are they really protecting us? In addition, is the attempt to keep our information private helping to contribute to the destruction of the environment? A lot of paper is used to print…
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The phone rang and I answered by saying, “Hello.” Then again, “Hello… hello??” Finally, the silence that greeted me was interrupted by a Sprint salesperson. “Hi, I’m calling from Sprint. Don’t worry, this call is not using up any of your minutes and is completely free. We have reviewed your account and would like to let you know about special offers that you quality for.”…
Several restaurants are now printing a “suggested gratuity” right at the bottom of the check. However, if you take a close look, you’ll see that restaurants are trying to bump up the tip by calculating the suggestion on the check total, not the total minus tax. For instance, if the check total is $50, the suggestion claims the following: This seems to be correct at…
