Sunday, July 30th, 2006
... than websites that start making noise without you clicking on something?
The site that prompted this post was the Texas Rangers home site. Before they started advertising crappy ESPN content on their page, it was my favorite homepage for a sports team that I follow.
Ok.. there are things more annoying, ...
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Sunday, June 25th, 2006
Maybe they are in a bad patch, but is there anything so worthless as the quotations that google is squeezing out on their quote of the day section of the personalized homepage?
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I was going to add a few, but todays aren't so bad... and I can't get at the previous ...
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Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
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Wednesday, June 14th, 2006
So, I have a washer and dryer now. I can do laundry at any time, and all it costs me is the electricity.
After 4 years of doing laundry about 2x a semester and once each at christmas and over summer break, my clothes (about 90% are the same ones I ...
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Tuesday, May 30th, 2006
What is the point of even letting me download for OS X something called "Real Player" or "Window Media Player" from your respective sites when 9 times out of 10 they do not play Real or Windows media?
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Saturday, May 27th, 2006
Ok... I have recently bought a few books for my MA-Christian Outreach classes on Amazon.com.
Their search is not very good at all... There have been two books that I had to put the ISBN in to get them. Putting the Author and Title should be sufficient to at least get ...
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Thursday, May 11th, 2006
I am not a fan, not a fan at all.
This is a technique in digital (I'm assuming, maybe you can do it film-wise) photography where you take a picture at 3 or 4 different exposures (i.e. changing the size the aperture opens while the picture is taken) and combine them ...
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Monday, January 30th, 2006
When you search Google for "Dwight Knoll" right now they put the post that contains my imaginary obituary. I don't know if that is because that is the last time they cached my site, or what, but I hope that people aren't freaked out by it...
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Monday, January 2nd, 2006
to Angels and Demons for those who have read Da Vinci Code:
da Vinci == Galileo
Knights Templar == Illuminati
Opus Dei == Hassasin
Langdon == Idiot
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Thursday, December 8th, 2005
I got to experience the first 3-4 seconds of what it feels like to have your car stolen. I was sure I parked my car there... where is it... hmm... maybe it was stolen... no, I just parked it somewhere else... but I know I parked it right there... I ...
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2005
I was pretty excited about the new The Big Lebowski special edition. I've never owned a copy of this movie, and I've watched it about a million times, so I figured I'd go get this awesome "special edition." I never really wanted to buy the DVD before because it just ...
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Monday, September 5th, 2005
MS Word is one of the most infuriating programs on the face of the planet. I've said it before, but this auto-crap has got to go.
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Tuesday, August 30th, 2005
So I tried to invite some people who have gmail to the new google talk, and some went through, but the rest bounced... Then today, I go to look at my contacts, and something weird happened to them. Somehow, a bunch of the emails that Google Talk sent went to ...
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Monday, May 30th, 2005
I was really excited when Google came out with Google Maps, but I'm sticking with Mapquest until Google improves. Twice I have had trouble with Google directions and I have never had trouble with Mapquest.For all direction services, please get rid of the "slight left 0.0 miles" and crud like ...
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Tuesday, February 1st, 2005
I hope my "thumbdown curse" is as effective as it was on Bill Gates and Larry Brown. AOL charged me for a free trial that I thought I had cancelled. That's not so bad as the run around they gave me on the phone trying to rectify it. I would ...
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Thursday, January 6th, 2005
Bill Gates on Apple:They had a hit with the Apple II, they had a hit with the Macintosh, and they have a hit with the iPod, so this is a company that's had three hits...***Edit***You may remember this post where I said:This [icon ()] is [for]when I hand out a ...
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Monday, October 11th, 2004
Jesus Seminar raises controversial issues: "'There is an enormous gap between what scholars know and assume and what lay people know and assume,' Patterson said. 'Most people, not just conservative Christians, assume that what the Bible says happened actually happened.'"
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Monday, September 6th, 2004
There used to be a link to an article here, which I thought was interesting at first glance, but after reading the whole thing, I realized that the language at the beginning of the article which I agreed with was actually sarcasm.... stuff like:"For those of you in the secular ...
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Saturday, August 21st, 2004
This isn't just because Donnie is President of Basketball Operations for my favorite team...When pressed by a reporter Thursday about why Team USA's coaching staff doesn't include someone with more international experience, someone like Mavericks president of basketball operations Donnie Nelson, Larry Brown took offense."He has enough trouble coaching ...
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Thursday, August 19th, 2004
My iDisk has stopped working completely, and in so doing has brought to the forefront of my mind one of the annoying things I find in using OS X.All the time I click on a button, or select a menu, and get no feedback at all. I have to ...
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