End of Silence

I heard about this on Marketplace and All Things Considered on the way home tonight. The original article is from the LA Times and the NY Times is carrying it as well. Apparently, the Pentagon is using contractors like Lincoln Group to pay Iraqi newspapers to publish positive stories that the Pentagon has written about [...]

MC Host, my current web hosting company, has the worst customer service on the planet. I’ve had multiple problems with them over the past couple of years and my irritation with them has just about pushed me past the pain of moving 5-10 sites to another host. I’ve been having billing problems with them on [...]

Just saw this on BoingBoing, Link Wray passed away over the weekend. I was first introduced to him in college when I was working at Sound Warehouse and many of his songs have shown up in films over the past 20 years. “Rumble” is featured during the “uncomfortable silence” scene in Pulp Fiction. Don’t know [...]

I’ve got two data points from the past couple of weeks that prove that Amazon has kick ass customer service.
First, I ordered a DVD and had it delivered to work. I obsessively check tracking information and, on the day that it was supposedly delivered, I found nothing. I waited a day, checked with all the [...]

Stepan informs me that the title of one of my past posts has broken my RSS feed. My apologies to my vast RSS subscription base. I’ll dig in there and fix it this weekend or see if phpNuke fixed it already and I’m just behind on updates.

Read this because it’s funny and scary (via DruBlood).