Rape is certainly not a topic to make light of, but after my experiences with Hewlett Packard in recent times, it’s the word that comes to my mind. Perhaps ‘Fiscal Rape’ would be the best way to qualify it. It’s a nickle-and-diming attitude, but involves thousands of dollars. Here’s my story.

I got in to work today and was greeted by the following when trying to open my Gmail:

I’ve seen it before, not often though, and rarely for more than a minute or so. Today it’s been at least 30 minutes so far. I guess this is a good lead in to a post I’m going [...]

While working in a Google Doc on my Windows Vista computer, I noticed something new. It seems cut and paste doesn’t fully work. By ‘fully’ I mean that it works if you use keyboard shortcuts (ctrl-c, ctrl-v), or by choosing copy or paste from the Edit menu, but not if you right-click and choose copy [...]

I just looked at the website for Microsofts Windows Home Server. It has a character on screen that talks to you, much like my previously mentioned Ms. Dewey search engine (which is also a Microsoft product). Looks like Microsoft is leaning towards increasing the use of real characters that talk to you, a step up [...]

I was getting hit with spam pretty hard on this site, and my other site, ITsVISTA. I have Akismet installed, which does catch it all, but unfortunately it also catches many of my trackbacks. When you have a list of hundreds of spams in Akismet, it’s no longer practical to hunt through and find the [...]