Category Archives: web
Yelp hiding all reviews of Dr. David Shields
A week ago, I received this message from Yelp: Hi Paul, We’re writing to let you know about our decision to remove your review of Shields David S MD. Your review was flagged by the Yelp community, and our Yelp … Continue reading
Professor Larry Smith doesn’t understand the Internet
University of Waterloo economics professor Larry Smith doesn’t understand the Internet: This site is intended for the exclusive use of Larry Smith’s current and former students. Its use by other persons is expressly prohibited.
Another solution for WordPress’ “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”
Many WordPress users have run in to the error “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.” Sometimes, it is because you changed the table prefix and the solution is a database change. For other folks, it was … Continue reading
New AirPort base station?
The apple.com search engine seemed to have a spot of trouble with this one.
MAPLight’s awesome Money Near Votes tool
If you haven’t heard of MAPLight.org before, here’s what they do (which is fantastic): MAPLight.org, a groundbreaking public database, illuminates the connection between campaign donations and legislative votes in unprecedented ways. Elected officials collect large sums of money to run … Continue reading
Hey Chase bank — 1995 called, they want their user agreement back
Buried in my Amazon Chase Visa “This E-Sign Disclosure and Consent” was this gem: Hardware and Software Requirements. In order to access, view, respond to, and retain electronic Communications that we make available to you, you must have: an Internet … Continue reading
The US Congress doesn’t understand the Internet
Recently, I received an email from Nancy Pelosi: Apparently no one explained to her (despite representing Internet central), that scanning your letterhead and pasting it in to your email is a bad idea. It looks worse when it’s on a … Continue reading
Don’t hire Judi Newberry
Who needs an “SEO Mavin” anyway?
SXSW Interactive Panel Proposal: Abort? Retry? Failwhale? Making Error Messages Suck Less
I’ve proposed a panel for SXSW Interactive: Abort? Retry? Failwhale? Making Error Messages Suck Less. Here’s how I described it: An unknown error occurred. Call your system administrator. Abort/retry/fail? Bad errors are everywhere. Sure, complain on twitter. But how do … Continue reading
A Chrome funny
I’ve been playing with the prerelease version of Chrome for Mac OS X and found a rather amusing bug: