Archive for May, 2009

Webex home page has no LOGIN button

Cough up 40 bucks or so for webex…and then try to figure out where to login. Yeah, people can claim that ‘Host A Meeting’ is the login button, but why not say that? 

Google Search Engine goes nuts

Much has been said about Google having some kind of algorithm that predicts when employees will quit. There were 83 articles on this at Google News. But this is really not that big a deal. Google has thousands of employees, it gives them surveys, questionnaires, etc., and feeds that info into a data warehouse. Then, after [...]

Chrysler Dealers whine and whine

I have been laid off before. I didn’t go crying to my mamma afterwards. I accepted it as a fact of life, and moved on.
But I am very annoyed by the constant whining of the car dealers who are losing their precious franchises. I looked at the list for Los Angeles, and it is mostly [...]

General Electric CEO gets no love

America is crying out for high-tech investment. Please, please, please build a factory, a design center, an assembly line, ANYTHING, in America. We need jobs. Mr. Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO of GE, goes ahead and does exactly that, invests half a billion dollars.
So what thanks does he gets? An ugly, ugly photograph in the NY [...]

More Edyukayshun please

A pet peeve of mine is the country lists on websites…someone went to the United Nations website and compiled a list of all the countries, and everyone blindly uses those lists. Here is another example of how websites blindly copy other websites. In this case, it is even stupider, because this Kern County Community College [...]

Make your YouTube video titles stand out

Youtube only shows you the first x letters of the title, so they all look the same. They need renaming.