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February 16, 2009

The San Jose city website is an exercise in horror and frustration. I defy anyone to figure out how to report a street light outage.

Oh, hello there!

Far back, in the mists of ancient time, there existed a technology for sharing one’s thoughts, musings, memes, and other nonsense. You may have heard of it, if you’re over 40. The web log, or blog. The [more...]

April 12, 2023

RT @LOLGOP: It’s going to be hard to explain to our grandkids that the great recession was so bad that people had to line up for the new iPhone.

September 22, 2012

The War with the Customer

Flat

You know how Ikea makes a big deal of their flat-packed furniture? They way they put huge 8-foot-high murals up in the store saying that it’s packed flat so you can take it home today? Yeah, right. Today I [more...]

June 6, 2005

General Annoyances

Google, Nest, and the value of your home’s energy profile

We have entered the era of metadata, folks. And you can infer a lot from it.

January 16, 2014

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