Category: Assorted Rants
On-Demand and Streaming TV Programming is a pain
The direction of On-Demand and Streaming TV Programming is really getting worse. I pay a couple hundred a month to comcast and now they want me to pay for a majority of on-demand shows… except for some of the most recent.Netflix is being used to market incomplete shows (just a…
Is Amazon’s new Kindle Unlimited doomed to fail
Amazon might say otherwise, but as near as I can tell, they have killed Kindle’s Prime Lending Library for the entirely unattractive $9.99 per month Kindle Unlimited (also coined unofficially as a Netflix For Books). Even their own lending library page has nothing but “KindleUnlimited” titles as far as I can tell (see…
NET NEUTRALITY, the open internet needs your support
What would you say if you Electric Company wanted to charge you more to power your TV than they charge to power your oven? What if the electricity you used for air conditioning was twice the price of the electricity used to power lighting? You would probably say electricity is…
Bad news: Comcast is planning to buy Time-Warner
Opinion Consumers will not benefit from a bigger Comcast and less competition. Frankly, I’m not sure I trust Comcast. They have always tried to help when I have issues, so I have to give their customer service a nod, but under load their connection speed always drops. I really don’t…
“No wonder CompSci grads are unemployed”
I liked this article “No wonder CompSci grads are unemployed” By Dominic Connor http://bit.ly/h3CygX It makes me also think of something a bit closer to home. We get a lot of kids with graphic design degrees and no web skills looking for jobs. We also have a lot inquiries from…
Open Letter to Godaddy
You need a good usability expert for your public facing website. The domain manager has improved greatly over the years (albeit somewhat slow). However, getting to the domain manager is a confusing and ever changing experience. Navigation should not be constantly changing depending on where you are in the site…