Tag Archives: rant
Posted on 17-Sep-2007
I'm looking for a flexible (if not powerful) online gallery package. What are the free, preferably open source choices for online galleries? There are quite a few!
Wikipedia has a photo gallery comparison article. However, it's not comprehensive since it's a stub which needs cleanup (e.g., lists only basic features, and ...
Posted on 04-Apr-2007
I've been a Netflix customer for over six years. I had been pleased with their service, until a couple years ago when I noticed that they stopped Saturday shipments, as well as began throttling the delivery of the DVDs.
Needless to say, the newer, slower service disappointed me.
I heard about GreenCine ...
Posted on 19-Jan-2007
Some non-Apple applications ought to be singled out, in my opinion, if they've become necessary evils. Not because one would pay money for them, or because they're commercially produced, but because they've become an essential part of one's computer habits. Yet at the same time frustration reigns during actual use. ...
Posted on 29-Dec-2006
Is there really a good excuse to to interrupt —no, really, impede the user's experience with an involuntary, uninvited popup window blipping in front of what she's trying to view? No, I can't say there is.
Fortunately, web browsers like the Mozilla-based ones and Safari allow us to block the ones ...
Posted on 04-Sep-2000
Here is an old list of restaurants, now closed, where my tastebuds were abused. Yes, rather negative, but I wish to include this entry (from my old 1.0 site) for historical accuracy. (On the plus side, it is a really short list!) It would be rather amusing if the people ...
