Archive for the ‘Annoying’ Category
Sunday, October 9th, 2011
The Issue
I don't mind reading Amazon Kindle books on my iPhone, but sometimes a bigger screen is nice. Thankfully Amazon has Kindle apps for PC, Mac, iOS, Android, etc. The issue I'm having is that my notes and highlights don't usually sync correctly from Kindle for Mac to Kindle for ...
Posted in Annoying, Depressing, IT, Ridiculous, Software, Technology | No Comments »
Saturday, September 11th, 2010
The following conversation took place with AT&T Sales via LivePerson chat on September 11, 2010 at 7:10 PM ET:
Jeremy Glover: When will the next iPhone be released?
Tausha: We do not have any information for that, the new iPhone 4 just came out in June.
Jeremy Glover: Why are they discontinuing the ...
Posted in Annoying, Apple, AT&T, Customer Service, Depressing, Hardware, Ridiculous, Software, Technology | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Part of my job entails working with multiple Excel spreadsheets simultaneously. You would think with four monitors I would have no trouble. For whatever reason, Microsoft decided that Excel will open all spreadsheets in the same instance of Excel, causing it to be nearly impossible to quickly glance back and ...
Posted in Annoying, DIY, IT, Microsoft, Software | 1 Comment »
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
A politically correct Christmas poem...sent by a friend.
Twas the month before Christmas
When all through our land,
Not a Christian was praying
Nor taking a stand.
See the PC Police had taken away
The reason for Christmas—no one could say.
The children were told by their schools not to sing,
About shepherds and wise men and angels ...
Posted in Annoying, Depressing, Life, Politics, Religion, Ridiculous, Scary | 3 Comments »
Saturday, June 13th, 2009
Regrettably, Dell has canceled your recent order for a Dell Nuvi 275T GPS or Nuvi 265WT GPS
Dear Customer,
This is to notify you that, regrettably, Dell has canceled your recent order for a Dell Nuvi 275T GPS or Nuvi 265WT GPS. Due to our error, the system was shown ...
Posted in Annoying, Bugs, Customer Service, Deals, Depressing, GPS, Hardware, Money, Ridiculous, Technology, Toys, Web Development | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
For my mother's birthday I purchased a TomTom One 130. The updated maps had the other half of my road, so I was happy it could navigate more efficiently. Tonight I stumbled across a new site called DealWaiter. I plugged in "Garmin Nuvi" and it had a few results but ...
Posted in Amazing, Annoying, Deals, Depressing, GPS, Hardware, Money, Ridiculous, Technology, Toys | 1 Comment »
Sunday, April 19th, 2009
My back yard is full of bare spots so I thought it was time to re-seed. Since Walmart is usually cheaper than the competition, I check there first when I need something. I searched for "grass seed" on Walmart.com and got results that couldn't have been more off.
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Posted in Annoying, Bugs, Depressing, Programming, Ridiculous, Software, Technology, Web Development | No Comments »
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
For some reason, Microsoft decided it would be fun to make it nearly impossible to view the HTML source of an email in Outlook.
Below are the convoluted steps to make it accessible. Most of the steps are for the initial setup which makes a new icon available ...
Posted in Annoying, Depressing, IT, Microsoft Outlook, Ridiculous, Software, Web Development | 2 Comments »
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
Viruses can be tricky. Even if your anti-virus software is kept up-to-date on a daily basis it may not catch the newest threats. What would you do if a virus infected your computer? That depends. Can you run a virus scan? Can you even login? I ran into that problem ...
Posted in Annoying, Depressing, IT, Software, Virus | No Comments »
Monday, March 16th, 2009
Do you have an economy-grade website host? Me too. BlueHost is great for only $6.95 per month but its response times and transfer rates are terrible. Fear not — Amazon S3 to the rescue. For pennies a day you can supplement your cheap website host using ...
Posted in Amazing, Annoying, Blog, Deals, DIY, Entertainment, Hardware, Hosting, IT, JavaScript, Programming, Ridiculous, Software, Technology, Web Development | 3 Comments »
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