Jeff Potter, author of the forthcoming (O’Reilly, June 2010) Cooking for Geeks and creator of out of service now has his own web site. (Yes, This post is mostly for Google.)
Category Archives: miscellaneous
Photos make it all better
“She would only have sex with me when her ex-boyfriend was taking pictures.” “It wasn’t cheating as long as someone was taking pictures.” From Porchlight‘s La Petite Mort, February 19, 2010.
Don’t cancel
Liz Danzico wrote a great little essay on two flaws in our culture: Saying things we don’t mean to be “polite” (“Let’s get together soon”) Agreeing to do something and then cancelling on the person The post is concise and thoughtful — read the whole thing — and concludes with this: 4. Don’t cancel Ever. …
There’s a reason he was denied bail
From the January 9, 2010 Herald Sun:
I’d rather you be right
Jeff Ello wrote an interesting article for Computerworld about managing geeks. Here’s the heart of it: While everyone would like to work for a nice person who is always right, IT pros will prefer a jerk who is always right over a nice person who is always wrong. Wrong creates unnecessary work, impossible situations and …
One Less Torture Advocate
I can’t really say this any better than The New Republic already did. Seems right-wing radio shock jock Eric Muller lasted all of seven seconds of waterboarding before he gave up and admitted it was torture: Turns out the stunt wasn’t so funny. Witnesses said Muller thrashed on the table, and even instantly threw the …
Credit card companies whine to press
Yesterday’s New York Times covers changes to credit cards. They spoke with David Robertson, publisher of the Nilson Report, which tracks the credit card business. Robertston lays it on thick: People who routinely pay off their credit card balances have been enjoying the equivalent of a free ride, he said, because many have not had …
Weird jobspam of the day
Why am I getting recruited to be a physical therapist? Return-Path: From: [email protected] Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 12:32:21 -0400 Subject: Nationwide Physical Therapist Search Reply-To: [email protected] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: [email protected] Hello! My name is Tonya Greene and I am currently conducting a nationwide search for Physical Therapist. RCI is …
Sabre doesn’t get it
NBC in Dallas ran a piece called “Airlines Rethinking Customer Care. In the piece, they talk about airlines using customer data to personalize the customer experience. Yawn. Places like OpenTable and Wyndham have been doing this for years. Great restaurants kept detailed notes on their best customers with pen and paper. The anonymous talking head …