I am having the most aggravating time dealing with Videotron right now. Videotron is the television cable monopoly provider here in Montreal, for those who don’t know; and really, for people like me who don’t have either a private home or an apartment with a balcony facing South, they are the entertainment monopoly that has to be dealt with, for lack of alternatives. And boy, do they know it. Continue reading “The Opposite of Usability.”
A more direct link to the Reuters pic…
Steppin’ out. Whoever is in charge of handling Bush’s public demeanor is obviously out to lunch these days, or just plain on drugs. You’d think Laura would know better than to join him in this faux-pas, but you’d be wrong.
Once again President Bush sends a clear and unambiguous message.
If you had the maid coming in tomorrow, better cancel and have her come Wednesday instead.
The world will end because of nuclear war starting on Tuesday 9/12/06! Sure, doomsday rants have been said before, but then Yisrayl Hawkins is apparently not your average crackpot (which, I guess, makes him a special crackpot!). Not everyone agrees of course. Continue reading “If you had the maid coming in tomorrow, better cancel and have her come Wednesday instead.”
‘Well, I guess Gary Condit’s relieved…’
No matter how overwhelming an event is it will always be discussed by individuals with their own point of view that may tend towards making fun of tragedy (‘gallows humor’) or simply refuse to let outside events take precedence over their own personal concerns. On September 7th, 2002 Salon.com ran a featured called Forbidden Thoughts in which ideas were retold that either were overheard on 9/11 or reported by others. Apparently Salon got such a response from viewers adding their own inappropriate comments that they ran a followup feature based on the feedback, and ran it on September 11th 2002.
So you’re saying that 12 x 0 equals less than 1 x 1? How revolutionary!
The Idiocy of Crowds. It turns out that collaboration and groupthink have no inherent efficiency and that a single competent individual produces better work than a stable-full of people with less knowledge… a development that many are calling “obvious”. Hell, anyone who’s ever been to a meeting populated by yes-men and time-wasting boardroom jockeys already knew that.