I realize I’m probably way late to the game here, but for whatever reason I did not notice this problem until today. Comcast has started responding to bogus DNS requests, sending people to some crap-tastic search portal.
Up until now Comcast hasn’t given me too much to complain about. The service is reliable, the speed is [...]

The spreadsheet that manages to turn this CSV field:
“Foo \”Bar\”"
into:
Foo \Bar\”"
??? I guess the “standard” way to quote a ” is with another “, but even so, how did it manage to mangle the text like this?
Argh. I see that Wordpress and/or Firefox smarted up my quotes. I just can’t win today.

T-Mobile made the unfathomable choice to discontinue e-mail support, instead requiring users to go to live chat. However, you wouldn’t know this when visiting their support page:

Chat with Customer Care Specialist >
Fill out a quick form to chat live with one of our specialists. If all agents are busy, you can even send us an [...]

They keep calling our office, every line we have. I guess they’re some anti-fraud service, but they use telemarketing, which makes them scum. Double scum for trying to reach us like this four times today. (Of course, when you pick up the line, there’s nobody on the other end, so it’s completely ineffective anyway.)
(AKA: MeucciSolutions, [...]

A pox on Apple MagSafe designers. MagSafe is pretty awesome in general, but Apple uses the same plug for both their 60W and 85W power supplies. Unbeknownst to me, I had been using a 60W power supply from a Macbook to power my MBP. It wasn’t until I saw scorch marks on the power cable [...]

First, Paypal wouldn’t let Esther add her credit card to her account. She and I both have the same card number (of course).
So, I called Paypal. They have one of those horrible voice activated systems. They ask you to enter or say your phone number (even though you’re calling from a phone and they could [...]

Seen while attempting to repair a disk…
2008-08-09 16:19:15 -0700: Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed.2008-08-09 16:19:15 -0700:
2008-08-09 16:19:15 -0700: Disk Utility stopped repairing “disk1s3” because the following error was encountered:
Filesystem verify or repair failed.
2008-08-09 16:19:15 -0700:
That was the entire error, datestamps scattered around exactly like that. Steve Jobs would be rolling over in his [...]

One of the more annoying things to come about in the Linux/open source world is the use of “info” pages, replacing the old workhorse standard of “man” pages. In doing so, developers often ignore documenting crucial elements in a man page, instead leaving this gem at the end:
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