For all the brouhaha about Internet search companies maintaining the secrecy of their customer’s surfing history, there is one company that publishes their customer’s online habits for all the world to see: TinyURL.com Go ahead, type a random string into TinyURL and see what people have tiny-ized. For example, apparently whoever created tinyurl.com started life [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2007
Lazy Programmers
September 4, 2007 – 9:02 pm
From Microsoft Excel for Mac: I sure love being told that the programmers knew exactly what I was trying to do, but decided they weren’t going to bother doing it for me.
Even scumbags can have a sense of humor
September 1, 2007 – 12:11 pm
The following phone conversation just occurred: Elizabeth: Hello? Phone Scamming Scumbag: [Spoken smoothly and officially.] Hello, we are conducting market research today. Are you over the age of 18? E: Yes. PSS: What is your income level: over 15,000 a year, over— E: —I’m sorry, I don’t feel comfortable telling you my income level. What [...]