I don’t know if hotel pricing is as broken as airline pricing, but FareCast for hotels will be interesting regardless.
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Vote for my SXSW interactive panel proposal
My session is Putting the Quality in Quality Web Applications. Here’s the blurb: A misspelled word, stray pixel or errant semicolon can erase your data, confuse your customers or put you on the front page of the New York Times. Learn what’s important when it comes to web app quality and how to make your …
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Learn how to spell résumé
Attention people of the world. Please learn how to spell résumé. It has two accent aigus — one on each “e.” The HTML for this is résumé. If your computer/email program cannot handle accented characters reliably, “resume” is acceptable. However, “résume” and “resumé” are never correct. Thank you.
Lauren Catilin Upton’s new job
Following up on an earlier story, George Bush appointed Lauren Caitlin Upton as a foreign policy advisor. (credit: GH)
Lauren Caitlin Upton is an idiot
Apparently Lauren Upton is one of the 20% of Americans who don’t own maps. Or something. From the Miss Teen USA Pageant (24 August 2007): “Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can’t locate the U.S. on a world map. Why do you think this is?†Miss South Carolina, Lauren Caitlin Upton: “I personally …
State Farm Agent David Stewart sent me junk mail
Update: after this posting appeared, Mr. Stewart’s office contacted me. They tell me they have now removed my address from their mailing list. …but he is a spammer. We keep getting cards in the mail from him, despite repeated requests to be removed from his mailing list.
Your tax dollars at work
Sen. Barbara Boxer is having email problems:
Moving? Here’s where to change your address
I moved last year, and I had to change my address everywhere. As I did this, I kept track of where, hoping to make the process easier next time. Forgetting organizations is annoying. The list I’ve compiled is below the jump. Where possible, I’ve included a link to the web page where you can make …
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Best recruiter story. Ever.
Tony is a UI engineer. He gets a lot of recruiter spam. Usually it’s related to his skillset. This time, however, the recruiter was looking for a filesystems engineer. They had this hilarious exchange: Recruiter: We’re looking for somebody with 7-10 years of experience writing filesystems.Me: The only person I know with that level of …
The hidden cost of software bugs
If it costs you more in employee time to screen bug reports and mark them as duplicates than it would to actually fix the bug, fix the bug. Now.