Well, we moved in to our new house, unfortunately corporate scammers and the normal crap that makes life difficult and very expensive. Planning for Alice’s maternity leave looks like we may be eating a lot of no-name spam and no-name Kraft dinner…
ADT are a bunch of scam artists. We cancelled our monitoring only […]

…MMm hot saucy cake.

These things only cost a buck or so and can lead to so much enjoyment! Especially with Ice Cream!!
Anyway, things are getting hectic around here again. Christmas is coming which means all manner of nastiness for yours truly. We managed to buy a house! in South slope!! It’s […]

Here is a nasty story:
Guy gets hosed by Gateway
Interesting story. READ THE EULA! It looks like companies are having you waive all legal rights when buying their products. Because it is convenient to just click OK, they are banking on laziness. Please, don’t ever hesitate to return an item and […]

Here is a very interesting article testing what is meant by ‘no obligation’, ‘free offer’, ‘30 day free trial’ offers. It seems signing up is as easy as pie, but getting out of these offers may involve small claims court, or worse. Many companies will even charge you long after you cancel, leaving […]

The evidence is mounting that our current western lifestyle is contributing to the continued disruption of our environment. To me, the best evidence comes from the big players (tobacco, Oil, etc.) throwing their money behind bogus rigged or fake research, lies, testimonials from non-existant people and FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) trying to get […]

This is a sad story that just seems too nasty to be real. Could you imagine what it would be like if a law firm called you up for your opinion, then used that opinion to launch a law suite in your name? Then they spread your name all over the media so […]

Here is an interesting article highlighting the results when competition fails and monopolies rule:
Microsoft Licensing to Prevent all but Large Hardware Vendors Access to their Media Player Rights Management.
Nice to see Microsoft lock down and make their monopoly as rigid and controlled as possible. Nice to see technology that can *ONLY* be used as […]

My iPod Mini is having the infamous Menu button problem where the menu button no longer works. Flicking the hold switch 4-5 times while hitting the Menu button repeatedly will go back one menu (like it is supposed to).
Note to everyone: STAY AWAY FROM IPODS!!! The quality is one step away from shit, they […]

Here you go, if you managed to purchase one of the tainted nasty rootkit-enabled CD’s from SONY/BMG, you can get your money back/replace them with good old fashioned CD’s here:
SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT - cp.sonybmg.com/xcp
If you played one of these in your computer, and it screwed up your PC, not much you can do right […]

Freedom to Tinker - More on Sony copy protection and it’s malicious results
Looks like they are recalling some of the disks that have offending software. Interesting articles on this site show that this is not the first time Sony copy protection installs stuff on your computer without your consent. Not what I would […]