I just had another horrible experience with AT&T customer support, and I know I’m not alone. They have to be one of the most hated companies on [...]
June 18, 2011
How Is AT&T Still In Business?
I Speak For The Trees
[continued from Part 1] After meeting with the contractor that Ameren dispatched to walk my property line and mark trees, he invited me to walk the line [...]
June 12, 2011
I Am The Lorax
I am not a fan of Ameren. Ever since I spent seven days without electricity in the throes of a St. Louis summer, there is very little that company can do [...]
June 11, 2011
Hey Airline Industry!
Recent surveys have indicated that the airlines are getting worse instead of better when it comes to customer satisfaction, one of the key areas being [...]
August 19, 2010
Missourah
This is addressed to those who routinely mispronounce the name of my home state. Some of you, inexplicably, are from this state and you still don’t [...]
June 15, 2010
Bye Bye DirecTV!
Earlier this year, I documented my Home Theater PC project. My primary motivation for this endeavor was to find a viable alternative, preferably less [...]
June 3, 2010
The Big Box Office Bamboozle
It looks like my prediction about Avatar is on track to come true, but the box office reports today reminded me just how pointless box office reports are. [...]
January 8, 2010
Spammers Have Ruined The Internet
If you’ve ever gone through the process of getting a new phone number, you know that the previous owner’s reputation and associations may haunt [...]
June 27, 2009
Whither Tobacco
This is the halfway point in this year’s 30 Days of Blog, and I thought I would devote at least one day responding to the man who started all of [...]
June 15, 2009
Adventures in Linux-Land
Look, I’m a software guy, okay? I’ve been banging around on computers since my first TRS-80 that my dad bought in 1982. I’m a software [...]
June 16, 2008
Wanna Play Monopoly?
As I write this, there are still over 500 people in the St. Louis area without electricity, according to AmerenUE‘s outage map. Granted, that number [...]
August 12, 2006
Why AOL Sucks
Almost exactly ten years ago I wrote my first rant on this web site entitled “Why AOL Sucks.” It is nice to finally have confirmation of this [...]
August 4, 2006
Take My Identity, Please
I just can’t win. Between my employer and the Veteran’s Administration, and their penchant for storing my personal data on easily-stolen laptop [...]
May 28, 2006
Why Movies Suck
So it’s been almost five years since I last ranted about this topic. But recent developments have forced me to reevaluate my own attitude towards the [...]
July 29, 2005
Why Netflix Sucks
In April of this year, I received an email from Netflix informing me that in June they would be raising their rates from $19.95 per month to $21.99 per [...]
October 25, 2004