The professor for one of my MBA classes assigned partial chapters from a book from McGraw Hill and the experience was absolutely horrid.  It then occurred to me that McGraw Hill has the same dimwitted executives that Kodak has and I can only imagine the discussions going on in the board room. What happened at…
Month: January 2012
Who Came Up With Those STUPID Security Questions? Why I Don’t Shop at Your Website!
I have been fed up with all the username/password combination for websites for quite some time. I literally have hundreds of usernames and passwords but what’s now annoying me even more are the moronic security questions websites now make you use for self-service password reset. Who was the idiot that came up with this idea?…
Is AT&T Ripping Subscribers Off?
I have three stories about my AT&T uverse cancellation adventure. First, it took four hours on the phone with over half a dozen people to cancel my account. I was on hold for 10 to 30 minutes at a time when I got disconnected or transferred to a dead phone. When I finally got to…
How To Cancel That Cable Subscription And Still Watch TV: Roku + Netflix + HuluPlus + Amazon Prime = TV Bliss
This week I will be canceling my AT&T Uverse subscription as I have found alternative methods of watching TV at home and on the road making cable subscription obsolete. This is also because I gave my kids an ultimatum, “you need to pick between iPhones or TV” and the kids chose iPhones. I will still…
How The TSA Damages The Economy But Amazon Helps Improve It
Over the holidays I had the pleasure of doing some personal travel and one of our stops was San Francisco.  We did a bit of site seeing and we did take in the vineyard country and I can sadly say that despite finding some really great wines, I did not bring any back. Why?  Well…