Rants on: Annoyances
Keith's Rants
Various general annoyances to rant about.
- Election Official Violates Election Ethics Rules
Montana Secretary of State Corey Stapleton Unethical
February 18, 2019
- Corey Stapleton, Montana Secretary of State, Doesn't Know His Department's Policies
Secretary Stapleton Can't Even Answer a Simple Question
April 22, 2018
- Letter to the Montana Secretary of State Corey Stapleton
Questions of Ethical and Professional Considerations of 2017 Policy Change
April 3, 2018
- CenturyLink Payment Incompetence
When Automation and Technology Provide a BAD Customer Experience
August 7, 2013
- On-Line Yellow Pages
More Trouble than They Are Worth?
October 6, 2010
- USAA's Reputation
What You Can Expect from USAA as a Client or a Claimant
July 30, 2009
- Texting While Driving
A Fedaral Law Banning Texting While Driving Is a Bad Idea
June 11, 2009
- Traffic Enforcement Cameras
Bad Usage of Technology and Misinformation to the Public Regarding Their Benefits
April 4, 2009
- Good Customer Service Is Sales
But Not If You Try to Screw It Up
December 14, 2008
- Another Recommended Rewrite
Yahoo!'s Automated Support Reply Is Not in Synch with Their Business Practices
February 24, 2008
- A Better Cookie Solution
Why the Proposed Do-Not-Track List Can't Have the Desired Result
November 4, 2007
- Opt-In vs. Opt-Out
You'd Think the Debate Over Whether or Not to Spam Would Be Over By Now
September 19, 2007
- Blocking Ads Is Not Evil
Nor Is It Theft
August 17, 2007
- Email Confidentiality Statements
A Great Way for System Administrators to Make Fools of Corporate Executives - At the Executives' Request
June 2, 2007
- Email Manners
What Ever Happened to Being Polite in the Professional World?
May 7, 2007
- Reporting Spam
Doing Your Part to Control Spam
January 10, 2007
- Another Recommended Rewrite
What Singnet.com.sg's Abuse Auto-Response Really Means
September 11, 2006
- Conrad Burns Won't Apologize for Lying
Apparently, Apologizing Is Unethical
July 14, 2006
- Senatorial Debate
Conrad Burns Just Doesn't Get It
June 25, 2006
- A Recommended Rewrite
AT&T Internet Services Security Auto-Response
June 20, 2006
- Montana Politics
Conrad Burns Demonstrating His Brilliance...
March 28, 2006
- Godaddy's Bad Page Design Loses Them Customers
And They're Proud of It
May 29, 2005
- How Does Earthlink Support Suck?
Let Me Count The Ways.
February 27, 2005
- Customer Dissatisfaction Is the Primary Goal
Talk About Bass-Akwards Product Development...
February 2, 2005
- Non-Secure Content on Secure Web Pages
An Internet Security Risk that Browsers Should Always Warn Users About
September 3, 2004
- Spam Crap
Isn't the YOU-CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 great?
August 24, 2004
- Don't You Hate It When...
Microsoft Demonstrates Their Stupidity to Confuse Computer Users
May 10, 2004
- Microsoft
Bill Gates Trying to Console Computer Users by Deliberately Misleading Them and Lying to Them
March 4, 2004
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Annoyances Rants (and Other Neat Stuff) Links (in alphabetical order)
Utah Yellow Pages firm accused of distribution fraud
A Utah company that produces Yellow Pages directories has defaulted on its debt amid accusations it shorted advertisers by secretly cutting the number of books it distributed locally and in other areas of the country.
Wrong numbers
A whistleblower calling out a possible fraud at a Yellow Pages publisher has gained allies in some advertisers who are charging that the company, Ziplocal, hasn’t been distributing the books.
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