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What bugs me about Google Docs

April 22, 2008 in peeves, technology with 2 Comments

I’ve been using Google Docs quite a bit lately.  It’s starting to grate on me a little.

If you are particular about how things look, you almost have to hack the HTML version.  Setting styles on text sometimes works, clearing formatting sometimes works, etc.

You’ll get in nested HTML tag hell pretty quickly just by doing basic text formatting — headings, bold, italics and so forth.

Don’t get me started on tables.  They’re even worse.

Why I hate Symantec products

April 20, 2008 in peeves, technology with 3 Comments

I’m a fairly content AT&T DSL subscriber. I’ve also been a loyal AVG Antivirus user since my last nightmare with Norton Antivirus 2004.  It turned out to be a chipset incompatibility with my model of Dell Dimension 4100 that caused the never-ending cycle of BSODs.

Old news.

I came downstairs to the computer the other morning to find an AVG ad on my screen.  Grrrr.  Any program installed on my machine that throws ads up on the screen is gonna to get uninstalled.

My co-workers kept raving about the Symantec AV that comes free with AT&T DSL.  I don’t know what I was thinking, but I thought I would give it a spin.

Stupid move.

I should have stopped when it required that I use IE instead of Firefox.  I had to set IE to my default browser.  The agony.

An hour and a half later, I’m beating my head against the brick wall of crap software that is Symantec Antivirus.  Here’s the lovely error message:

Problem is: There wasn’t a previous install or uninstall to be completed.  I did everything they told me.  I clicked here to resolve.  It didn’t.  I uninstalled AVG, Windows Defender, disabled my Windows Firewall, manually deleted my Temp files, etc, etc, etc, ad nauseum.  Four restarts later, I’m ranting right here.

Check out these moves:

Check, check, check and check.  Uninstall.  Yes, I’m sure.

Downloading the Norton Removal Tool.  Check.

Running…

Ahhhh…Freedom.

Sick:Oprah’s Theology

April 3, 2008 in church, peeves with 1 Comment


Makes me throw up in my mouth a little.

You knew you needed less Dial soap

November 11, 2007 in business, peeves with 0 Comments

[you’re screwed]

Looks like Dial wants you to buy less soap, literally.

I noticed the same thing with Kingsford charcoal a while back. They were decent enough to post somewhat believable scientific reasoning on their website.

Same thing with Tires Plus (no links for crappy companies), recently. We bought two new tires after a scary blow out up in MN. Their literature says “Free lifetime tire balancing.” Is it free? No, apparently we didn’t purchase the “Premium wheel balance.” How is that free again? Too bad the marketing isn’t true. Tires Plus won’t have to worry about me being a lifetime customer.

Yes, I really did want to explain to my 11 year-old daughter that sometimes companies use vague and deceptive marketing to up-sell you on something.

/rant

Wanna see a lame parade? Come to Blue Springs, MO

September 15, 2007 in peeves with 0 Comments

[thumbs down]

We all camped out at the annual Blue Springs Fall Fun Fest parade this morning…

Lame.

I’ve seen parades that were much better — in towns that are a small fraction of the size of Blue Springs.

Here are 10 things that I would change about the parade in Blue Springs:

  1. I know we have a history of good gymnasts that train(ed) in Blue Springs, but come on, 5 mobs of obnoxious dance troupes? Why?
  2. A middle school entry with no float and just a gang of kids? What’s up with that?
  3. Where are the Shriners? Combines, mini-cars, go-carts, motorcycles — they’ve got to be there. Not just one group either.
  4. The parade themes are lame — The Wild World of Sports?? I think I saw about two floats that even even made an attempt. I think some enforcement is required.
  5. No horses? C’mon. Gotta have lots of animals.
  6. More bicycles and skateboards. A freestyle bike act would be sweet.
  7. I love the John Deere tractors and the Model-As and Model-Ts. Where were the big tractors? Where were the muscle cars? Where were the power-breaking and the glass-packs? And the jacked-up monster trucks?
  8. Where were the pedal-powered contraptions — the crazy bikes and trikes?
  9. There’s gotta be some tricked out choppers and motorcycles in this town. We got a Harley plant in Kansas City, for cryin’ out loud.
  10. I think the Blue Springs Fall Fun Fest parade generally lacks forethought, imagination and creativity. It’s apparent to me in the parade entries and in the event planning.

Anyone else had enough of the Apple iPhone hype?

June 27, 2007 in peeves, technology with 0 Comments

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I’m sick of the iPhone blathering and all of the talk about Steve Jobs being a cult leader.

(Here’s a link to the 1984 video and the Office Lemmings one.  Here’s a nice interview explaining the Cult of Mac. )

Enough already.

For those of you that think that the iPhone will be “all that,” here’s some things that it’s not.

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