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Wal-Mart employee fired for Christmas email http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/18/happy_holidays/ In a sphincters-held-tight culture such as this, little things mean a lot, so when the giant US big box retailer Wal-Mart recently changed a greeting from “Merry Christmas!” to “Happy Holidays!” it drew complaints. And here the troubles began. The emails duly arrived, and a customer-facing rep took […]

Avoid Household Mortgage (HSBC). I think the company is composed entirely of idiots. I have had issue after issue with them and they are really stupid issues. The loan will be payed off in the next three months so I thought I would make sure I write up a rant about them before I forgot. […]

Dana Epp has a blog that I like to follow, today she had a post on PSS frustration. PSS is Premier Support Services also sometimes known as Premium Support Services. This isn’t free support. You pay dearly for it. Her issue is that she had a problem and worked with PSS for 4 days prior […]

What do phones, beepers, and PDAs have in common? Well now a days lots of things and in fact one of any of those will function as the others. What I mean in particular is that people have enslaved themselves to those devices. When someone’s phone or beeper or PDA goes off do you see […]

So did the MTV awards suck this year or what? About the only cool thing was Green Day winning all of awards they won. Good for them, great band, great statement. Other than that that was one of the worst MTV Award shows I have seen. I hope they don’t ever bring Puff Daddy, or […]

If you put lipstick on a pig, it still oinks and probably still won’t be allowed into a nice 5-star eatery. Why do I say that? Because of a google news hit I saw this evening…. From the website www.newsday.com – “Bush re-ignites evolution debate“… Sounds like the burning bush is at it again…. Ok […]

As you will recall from my previous blog http://blog.joeware.net/2005/05/08/11/ I forecast that Tana lost due to how she treated her team. Call me Nostradamus or something, but if you saw the season finale of The Apprentice, she did indeed lose and it was all about how she treated her team. She knew she was losing […]

I went to Border’s tonight because my g/f wanted to pick up some books. So in the meanwhile I thought, hmm, let’s check out the computer selection. I walk around and what do I see but 3-4 shelves of books dedicated to Ebay shopping and selling. Do we *really* need 3-4 shelves worth of those […]

Watch The Apprentice? If so did you catch this last week’s episode? I think Tana lost. Whether she wins the show or not, she lost. Why? I expect people who work for the trump organization might be watching. They all got to see Tanna say to Carolyn something to the effect of “how about those […]

I spoke too soon on the ease of installing word press through POWWEB. Well it was easy… easy to install the wrong version. For some reason they install 1.2.2 and the current version is 1.5.0… So I figure this out when trying to turn on different themes. So I had to go out to the […]