Category: Random
Asinine Browser Requirements
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My buddy Roger just posted about stupid browser requirements. If you’re not going to read it here the short story is that an employee portal was launched in the last 6 months that only works with IE8 and lower. So he called tech support for the company that he works with.. And after they remote…
Sensationalist Reporting by The Verge – again
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This type of crap is exactly why I never read The Verge. The only way I get to their articles is by coming across them in Flipboard. They have a hands on with a IPhone mockup. I admit I never watched the video, I was too busy sighing and rolling my eyes at the stupidity…
My Legs should be Charged with Murder
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Well it seems my ongoing saga with wheel breakage continues. Wednesday August 22 2012 I managed to destroy a 3 month old Mavic Akaiim rear wheel accelerating off a stop sign turning a corner. To add to the mayhem, I was in my largest cassette cog and the wheel got so warped that after 2…
App.net is Only Viable in a post Twitter World
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While writing about Twitter recently I was easily led in to wondering about the possible success of App.net. At one point there were Twitter clones all over the place. I was a member of the now defunct Blellow. I was even active enough that I got a free t-shirt out if it. All of the…
DHH: Speaking Again and Making Way to Many Assumptions
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So DHH dropped another smug blog post on us, this time about business formality. Formality is like a virus that infects the productive tissue of an organization. The symptoms are stiffness, stuffiness, and inflexibility – its origin never with those who do but with those that don’t. DHH is making 2 mistaken assumptions and totally…
Cloaking Rudeness as Telling the Truth
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Lately I’ve noticed a disturbing trend on Twitter, people are downright rude to each other. Now I know the internet is not the shining example of human decency, but I’ve been watching people pass off being rude as ‘just telling the truth’. As if some flippant statement about being a truth teller can absolve them…
A Primer on Recovering as an Athlete
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This year I’m way faster on the bike that I was last year. I’m not talking a few seconds, I’m talking minutes faster with lower effort on the same hills. Here’s the funnier part, I’m training with less focus this year than I was last year. I’m mainly just riding my bike for fun. I…
RadioShack Nissan Trek does have an Adult Athlete Employed
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I’ve written more than once about the woes of RadioShack Nissan Trek. Ultimately it has seemed that there really aren’t any adults on the team. Adults do things like talk to those they have issues with, instead of running to the media to tell about their issues. Well it does seem like they have an…
Lenovo Steps Up
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Hot on the heals of the child like complaining from Acer we have Lenovo with a totally different response. “Although we don’t like Microsoft providing hardware, for us, it just adds one more competitor,” Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing said during the conference call in response to analyst’s question. “[They’re] just one of our many competitors.…
Acer Whines
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So Acer is complaining that surface is competing directly with them (and it is) and threatens that they’ll look at alternatives to Windows. I can certainly see that they’d be upset, but what alternatives are there? Apple won’t license OSX and the general consumer isn’t interested in Linux (despite how rock solid it is now).…