Wal-Mart and its cohorts are the most tempting, tantalizing, mouthwatering target for US trial lawyers. WM has a lot of money, does business in every state, and is a very labor-and-movement intensive business. So, here comes along this article (or here or here) that talks in detail about how hundreds of thousands of truckers and [...]
Browsing Posts published in August, 2008
Database mistakenly says woman bought condoms, prompting her to fight with boyfriend.
Egypt’s sphinx is in need of overhaul, Las Vegas has a better sphinx.
Ramada Inn website has elementary problems
So here we are at cheaptickets.com, where Virgin Atlantic has a special offer going on. Virgin flies from some major airports in the USA to London. So, since this webpage is a special Virgin offer, when you click on Airport Codes, you would expect to see the cities that Virgin flies from right? But here [...]
On this webpage we see a flight from Washington DC to the desert kingdom of Dubai. The flight a direct flight taking over 12 hours. So why does United show a section towards the end of the page that says that “This flight may be operated by xxx airlines”? These airlines will not provide this [...]
Times are hard right now…everyone holding back, trying to save a few nickels. Spending is down. Everyone wants to hunker down and ride out the storm with a safe (and hopefully cushy) job. So here comes Business Week with some advice…20 jobs to help you ride out the storm. Sounds nice, right? Except that EVERY [...]
I signed up for automatic payment on SoCal gas company and I received this reminder. Look at the area circled red. Instead of making me think whether I have to sign in and pay or whether it will be automatically taken out of my checking account, why not just tell me whether I am signed [...]
Why is Segway pricing same since 2001?
OK, that is overstating it. I missed the whole ‘locavore’ thing, which is where people try to eat what is grown locally. The word ‘locavore’ got so much traction in 2007 that it was named the Oxford Word of the Year for 2007. The locavore movement was a big thing in San Francisco, which is [...]
