Observe Business

So I tried to upload a pic to my twitter account…and it says that my tiny little favicon is too big. I expected more from a company that could have squeezed half a billion out of Facebook.

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? 

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

You are efilecabinet.com, one of many companies that are trying to get big and hit the big time so you can be bought out by Oracle or whichever sugar daddy happens to come along.
Now here you are, in a recession. Or a depression. Or a world-wide pandemic that will turn us all into zombies. Take [...]

I am on a redeye from LAX to NYC, desperate to score a window seat so I can try and get some sleep.
I go to the online app to see what seats are available. It’s nice that they have a seat map, and they helpfully mark out my seat for me. 

And then I scroll down [...]

I am convinced that the government is incompetent. Yes, I know, some parts of the government work well, and the US is pretty well governed as a whole, when compared with the rest of the world (except for Switzerland and Singapore).
But it is little nitwit things like this that drive me up a wall.
Los Angeles [...]

I read this headline like ten times and I couldn’t figure it out.

 
 
As a colleague of mine commented, “Undersea features are very important when looking for a mate.  I want to make sure she can hold her breath for 30 days when she’s laying eggs. “