March 2010
14 posts
A Clear follow-up
Okay, so after my rants about Clear being rather a joke, and several tweets about dealing with customer service and the need of sending out a tech to my home before considering any sort of refund, I have to say this: Honestly, they’re not that bad.
I’ve had far more headaches with customer service, tech support and the like from Comcast than my little circus with Clear resulted in....
February 2010
16 posts
The Decemberists Covers Archive →
maniacalrage:
56 (56!) live covers from various Decemberists shows over the past few years. I wish, wish, wish I could download some of these.
When they broke out into Crazy About You (here in Heart’s neighborhood) last summer, people went apeshit.
“What’s urgently needed at Mountain View are senior strategic designers with...”
– Buzz launch wasn’t flawed, Google’s intentions are « counternotions
The Attack of Momputing →
viafrank:
Computer nerds got a sneak peek at a largely still world that has never made contact with the “higher web,” the silent majority. The ones that don’t know a browser from the internet or what the address bar does, the ones whose web experience is pre-determined by what their homepage is set to. The ones that disregard most information in a desperate attempt to just find...
Things people try to log into →
mrgan:
The amount of information-ignoring necessary to go from 1. to 5. here is just stunning. The degree of faith people put in Google’s top result makes Catholics look like hippies.
I don’t really blame anyone here and I have no clue what the solution is. My only takeaway is that I’m terrified of dealing with technologies of this level of popularity.
While Facebook...
Logging in to Facebook and the reflection on how...
When Marco mentioned people mistaking an article about Facebook for the real deal, it took several readings of the actual page for it to sink in what was actually happening. Gruber distills the essence nicely:
Fascinating. ReadWriteWeb has a weblog post that ranks highly in Google’s search results for “Facebook login”. The comments on the post are filled with complaints from confused people who...
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A very long short conversation with Clear
We’re in the process of cutting the cable TV ties and switching to an ala carte internet streaming/Netflix/over-air HDTV setup for viewing pleasures. In the midst of the switch, I got the harebrained idea of just canceling my Comcast (er, Xfinity) accounts all together, and switch to a different internet provider. I wasn’t keen on getting DSL (don’t think our place even has a...
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Brainvasion
A year ago, today (5 Feb), someone cracked open my skull and looked at my brain. They then cut out an invader, and stapled me shut.
That may sound a bit insane, and in reality overly simplistic, but I’m being entirely honest. On 5 Feb 2009, doctors at Swedish Medical Center - Cherry Hill performed a craniotomy to remove a mysterious growth that was pushing into my left temporal lobe,...
Go easy on the "page flip" animations, though →
sourjayne-ux:
We know this is on a screen, right? That we’re not limited by the boundaries of a physical sheet of paper, that we don’t need to pick up a piece of paper and flip it over to continue reading content on a screen?
Great points about adding shiny for the sake of shiny. I think the iPad page flip looks cool, and I’d imagine the stack of “pages to go”...
