Posts Tagged ‘ rant ’
I’m combining my commentary from these three recent stoies into one post, because they are all about Apple’s latest shenanigans and I don’t want to post three in a row. The first two are about yet more arbitrary iPhone app rejections. ZDNet’s The Apple Core blog reports on Apple taking out certain wi-fi discovery applications, on [ READ MORE ]
The DigitalBeat column on VentureBeat recently reported on a case where three critics of Facebook had their accounts mysteriously deactivated. Juan Faerman, an author in Argentina who wrote a book called Faceboom, the cover of which has the title rendered in a font which easily could be mistaken for Facebook’s official logo, had his profile deactivating [ READ MORE ]
This goes back to a spur-of-the-moment tweet I made yesterday. I still stand behind what I wrote even though some people almost certainly got the wrong idea: And for the record… I really, truly, could not care less who wins the Super Bowl. I just hope none of the players get hurt. A lot of people forget [ READ MORE ]
I know this is way old, but I’m running out of things I feel like writing about and I need to start clearing off some of these drafts. In early October, Techdirt reported on musicians lining up to take back their copyright from the record companies, in the wake of Jack Kirby’s heirs invoking the same [ READ MORE ]
I’ve let this sit here way too long. It’s time I post this and be done with it. This is a follow-up post to my original post on this story back in 2009 November, so just in case you have not already read it, you may wish to go back and read that one and get [ READ MORE ]
Okay, last ticket scalper/reseller post for a while, I swear. A recent page posted on the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo website (hslr.com) details the plight that the local rodeo has to deal with in regards to ticket scalpers. When I went last year, I did happen to notice that resale of rodeo tickets is [ READ MORE ]
This went over so well last time I tried it, I think I’ll do it again. Since this advice was given to me in private, via a series of text messages to my phone, I’m going to keep the author anonymous for now. I’m going to say a bit about the mystery author in the [ READ MORE ]
I’ve mentioned Quinn’s Big City (QBC) a couple of times here (“here” being this blog, if not this blog in its current location), mostly in passing. I try to keep most of my long drawn-out ranting here; the longer pieces on QBC I have referred to as “verbiage pieces” and I try to keep my [ READ MORE ]