Daily Archive: November 18, 2012

120,000 Petition President For Secession of Texas From United States

Oh how wonderful is the internet? Everything is bigger in Texas, and that includes their online petition to secede from the union on the president’s We The People Site ( Basically Yahoo answers- except all of the answers come from the Whitehouse, and all of the questions need 25,000 askers). Over 114,000 people signed on to the petition, but I’m willing to bet that at least...

HP Support (Or Lack There Of)- A Look Back At My HORRIBLE Experience With HP Customer Service

Meg Whitman is one of my favorite tech executives, and HP seems to be making a recovery, but I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to look at an HP product again without thinking of my horrible experience with HP Customer Support a few months ago. I wrote thoroughly about it then, but I wanted to cover it again today in hopes that you...

Am I the Only One that Hates Speakers That Look Like Pencil Sharpeners?

Maybe I’m just a design snob, but I like my speakers classy, and looking like dog excrement an electric pencil sharpener is not a plus from a design standpoint. Here are four of the best and the worst designed speakers I’ve ever seen. Some of them show you that speakers can in fact be beautiful, and some burn your eyes. [slideshow gallery_id=”2″]