Category Archives: Rants

HULK SMASH, etc.

Youtube Crap

I have begun to really dislike YouTube and Google.
YouTube has been pulling videos left and right for a variety of dubious reasons, most often citing copyright infringement, even for parodies which are protected under copyright law. It seems that they pull videos without any actual thought or investigation into the legitimacy of the […]

Firefox 2.0.0.1

Anybody else using this?
Is it just me or is this thing slow as all hell? Ever since I upgraded to the 2.0 branch Firefox is slow and huge memory hog. If I get a couple of tabs open at once (normal browsing behavior for me) Firefox will be using 300mb ram easy, […]

Construction in Japan 2

NEWSFLASH!
Construction workers are crooked and lazy all over the world! (With a few notable exceptions, hi Jeff and that one other honest contractor somewhere in the world!)
I posted awhile back about the construction going on next door to me, but I have never actually posted on this site about the construction we had […]

Service PT 2, or maybe 1.5, oh and Japanese Pizza

Lately I have been reading a few places (including the wonderfully well-written Little Red Boat) about service and various reactions to it or lack there of, and I ranted a bit incoherently about it once or twice awhile back (must be something in the air? Is bad service airborne?), and then today I […]

More I hate Sony stuff

I did a late night rant awhile back about how and why I hate Sony and just found a new reason…
Sony hired one of those “viral” advertising agencies to do a campaign for them where some apparently illiterate wannabe rapping monkey posts videos to youtube of himself dancing around and “rapping” about […]

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