When you update your Facebook account and link your interests and activities to the new community pages, Facebook automatically assigns a picture to represent each interest. Sometimes that doesn’t work very well:
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Disc name as user interface
I recently installed Windows 7. Having installed Snow Leopard many times, I was curious to see how it would compare. Before you even get started, you see an example of the little details Apple pays attention to, but Microsoft is too lazy to care about. Insert the disc in to your drive. The Mac OS …
Xcode and the run-on sentence
Last night, I ran Software Update and updated Xcode. Here’s the description Apple provided: Xcode 3.2.2 is an update release of the developer tools for Mac OS X. This release provides bug fixes in gdb, Interface Builder, Instruments, llvm-gcc and Clang optimizer, Shark, and Xcode and must be installed on Mac OS X 10.6.2 Snow …
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 Support team has determined that it falls outside our Terms of Service (http://www.yelp.com/static?p=tos), specifically as …
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DNS weirdness
smokinhotprogressives.com was changed from 204.15.194.116 to .118. The change hadn’t propagated yet. $ host smokinhotprogressives.com smokinhotprogressives.com has address 204.15.194.116 smokinhotprogressives.com mail is handled by 50 shrub.ca. $ host secure.smokinhotprogressives.com secure.smokinhotprogressives.com is an alias for smokinhotprogressives.com. smokinhotprogressives.com has address 204.15.194.118 smokinhotprogressives.com mail is handled by 50 shrub.ca. $ host smokinhotprogressives.com smokinhotprogressives.com has address 204.15.194.118 smokinhotprogressives.com mail …
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.
Who is NAC SKI?
So the NAC SKI people try really hard to hide their contact information. There’s no phone number on the site or their Yelp page Why? Who knows. Update 2012-02-17: NAC SKI has now updated their Yelp page with contact information: 2635 N 1st St Ste 242 San Jose, CA 95131 (408) 922-0182 They even …
Webstaurant shipping fail
I was ordering some kitchen items from Webstaurant Store, my favourite online restaurant supply play (yes, really). All was fine until I hit the shipping page:
Good help is hard to find (or: Nancy Pelosi annexes Canada)
I wrote Nancy Pelosi, letting her know that electronic voting machines are problematic and voter-verified paper ballots are essential. She wrote me back: Like her colleague Diane Feinstein, she is having trouble finding competent correspondence staff. Note the key paragraph here: Senator Bill Nelson (D-NB) introduced the companion Senate bill, S. 1431, on July 9th, …
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New AirPort base station?
The apple.com search engine seemed to have a spot of trouble with this one.