Tag: lame

  • Enough with the April Fools day jokes

    It used to be cute, but really, it is no longer even a little amusing. Google Nose? Ask Google for Suggestions (chrome spell check lameness) Slashdot’s ROT13 encryption? This idiocy must end.

  • GoDaddy can kiss my ass

    There are many valid reasons to hate GoDaddy web hosting, from their soft-porn advertisements, to their owner’s proclivity to go big game hunting in Africa, to the barrage of pushy marketing of their goods and services (no, I don’t want to add domains today). Today though, I will be complaining about their support and their…

  • We don’t give date estimates for bug fixes. Quit asking.

    As a long time product manager, one of my pet peeves is the bug/hotfix process. Stepping back, we have a well defined triage process, where a good team of dev, support, and support engineers (as well as myself) sit in a room, and agree on priority…

  • Travel Foibles: Part 3 (of many) – Rental car agencies

    You know how hard it is to get a compact or ecnomony car? First, the travel agent seems to guide me into a midsize. It is the “Corporate Standard”. Really? We have a standard class for rentals? Next, the jockey working at the counter says “An econ…