I don’t mind mobile Safari much; I’d like a button to stop a page loading (like if I’ve fat-fingered a link and end up loading slow-ass Flickr or something), and I don’t like not being able to delete/re-order *all* of the bookmarks and folders, but overall, it’s okay. What I don’t like is that when […]

This is part of a screencap taken from some local news site. An unfortunate side effect of computer technology is that now any dumbass can tap out a bunch of words on a keyboard, run it through spellcheck and think it’s good. An editor–a real, live professional editor–would have picked up on the word “propel” […]

Is everyone in Finland slightly loony? I found this on a Finnish site along with some animation about fungus that featured singing cartoon worms on an alien planet, and the music for this one (I believe the genre is called “symphonic metal”) is Nightwish, “Ghost Love Score.” I am not entirely sure in which sense […]

Yay, me. I finally got around to fixing it so I can get the messages from my Charter account without getting piles of crappy spam. I’ve had the Charter address for eight years, and although I’d never give it out on any web site or to anyone I don’t know all that well, the combination […]

I finally got up the nerve to change some of the default iPhone and installed app icons that I didn’t like. I’d seen themes and knew I could change those, but there was always something about a theme that I didn’t like, and since it was usually some of the icons, it made just as […]

I have a Facebook account. I don’t use it, and indeed, it was created in a moment of semi-drunken weakness, years after L. told me I should have a Facebook. I’d known about Facebook since it was available only to students, but never saw the need to create an account. One night when I was […]

All wireless companies arse-rape their customers, but only in North America do they do it without even giving us a drop of Astroglide. When P. set my phone plan up for me, he knew exactly how I’d use an iPhone. He put limited minutes, unlimited data, and and a reasonable SMS plan on, knowing that […]

For the love of $deity, people–read, or I’m going to start billing you for the inhalers I need when your ridiculous mistakes cause a laughing fit that gives me trouble breathing. You might want to stop for a moment and think about, or perhaps do some research into, how diseases have ravished human populations for […]

I was a little concerned when I realised at 1815h that P. still hadn’t called to tell me he was on his way home. He always does that because we play a game with the cat. The cat loves daddy, so P. calls to tell me he’s on his way, then calls again just as […]

I feel sorry for the English language, since there is apparently no end to the ways that illiterate idiots are willing to assault it. The phrase is, “by accident,” you fools! “On accident” is something that little kids say when they’re trying to explain why the cupboard door is open and the kitchen floor is […]