I’m trying to book an AirTran flight to visit my company’s midwest office. I was just finishing my seat selections when the online reservation system errored out. Boom! Now I get to start all over. Thanks AirTran!
Ironically, AirTran’s slogan at the top of the page reads: “Go. There’s Nothing Stopping You.”
QUIT STOPPING [...]

Yesterday, we finally received our “government stimulus check” in the mail — a cool $1,200. In retrospect, I should have realized then that something bad was about to happen. It always does, you see, whenever we come into some large sum of money.
So today, naturally, we got our dose of karma-balancing payback. [...]

With gas costing a lot of money these days, we’re constantly regaled with the media’s so-called “brilliant ideas” about how we can all save money on gas. Their ideas, unfortunately, go directly against every safe driving practice in the book. You know how people talk about how we’re all going to see fewer [...]

As a web designer, I should be all over this new media stuff — the integration of rich content like audio and video into websites — right? Well, like any other media, even text or static images, there is an appropriate place and time for this stuff. Simply adding video for the sake [...]

Headline on CNN just now: “What if a hurricane hits… gas skyrockets to $10 a gallon and everything collapses? CNN investigates tonight, 8 ET.” I dunno…I’ll shoot myself? The media in this country is enough to inspire suicide as it is.

Over the last week, during which I have been extremely busy working with Windows night and day, I have repeatedly had the feeling that certain portions of this OS were designed by a bunch of toads.
I just did a search for some work-related files I haven’t used in a long time, because I need them [...]

I don’t often write about politics on this blog. Okay, to be more specific, I never do. One post does not a trend make, so I haven’t created a “Politics” category or anything, but this one post simply had to be written. And I’ll warn you upfront, it’s a long one.
For most [...]

This year, the Major League Baseball season opened in Tokyo, as it has several times now over the last decade. But Furman Bisher of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution doesn’t like it. Why? Maybe because — to him — it flies in the face of baseball tradition. Or maybe it’s because the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in [...]

“I was a producer of materiality and I am ashamed of this fact,” Starck told Die Zeit weekly newspaper. Starck, who is known for his interior design of hotels and Eurostar trains and mass consumption objects ranging from chairs to tooth brushes and lemon juice squeezers, went on to say that he believed that [...]

2008 is barely a month old (barely four days old if you live in China) and it’s already costing us a great deal of money.
First there were the rats in our attic. Well, more like rat, singular. Still, trapping, sealing off and baiting the place cost us $650. Since I run a [...]