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Two recent posts I’ve read, this one from Jeff Balke and this one from TicketStumbler, got me curious about the fees that Ticketmaster charges. Very telling indeed are quotes like these from Jeff: But, $8.60 PER TICKET for “convenience charges???” What the hell is convenient about that? and this one from the TicketStumbler article: But, [...] Found this article from one of the people I follow on Twitter. The Telegraph ran a story about an office worker fired for using all caps in e-mail. Vicki Walker, a New Zealand native, was let go from a job at a health care company after complaints from co-workers about “shouty” and confrontational e-mails, including [...] This post is overdue, but I still think it needs to be written. Starting on 2009-01-02 and ending back about a month ago or so, I did a 365 Days self-portraits photography project. I still have about two months’ worth of pictures that need posting on Flickr, and I still intend to post them. Most [...] Wired reports on Sony’s decision to side with Google in a highly contentious lawsuit between Google and rivals Microsoft, Yahoo, and Amazon. The lawsuit centers around privacy concerns and the fact it would give Google monopoly-like status on book rights that would be impossible for other companies to acquire without their own lawsuit. Worse for [...] A recent LA Times article and a recent New York Times article detail some rather horrifying abuses by the CIA from a long-secret CIA report released this week. The specific acts in question include: Brandishing of weapons, including a gun and a power drill, during interrogation sessions; Firing a gun in the room next door [...] When the Free Software Foundation scores a hit, it’s usually a home run. This one literally hasn’t landed yet. Their latest campaign, Windows 7 Sins, is a brutal, gloves-are-off-now attack on Microsoft’s well-known monopolistic and anti-consumer tactics. Some of them are pretty damning. I’ll go through each of the 7 sins and reply with my [...] The Blade has a recent entry on the Google Voice application for the iPhone. The FCC inquired about the rejection to all three companies involved: Apple, Google, and AT&T (which has an exclusivity arrangement with Apple for the iPhone in the US market). The interesting part here is the reaction from each company. AT&T denies [...] A recent UPI story details the case of Mark Guard, charged with stealing electricity in London. The taxpayers will have to pay over £5,000 (US$8,200) for the two separate hearings before the case was dropped. Mark was filming a documentary about crime and the homeless. During the filming squatters entered a vacant building, setting off [...] |
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