Archive for the ‘that sucks’ Category

Credit Card Information Sent Over AOL Instant Messenger (w/pic of receipt!)

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

Don't let this happen to you!  Be care what bozo's you give your credit card to :) I thought he was entering data on a Point-Of-Sale machine. Imagine my surprise when he showed me that my name, street, city, state, zip, credit card number and expiration date had just been ...

Oops! I poked a hole in it!

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Recently, Steve Wynn accidentally poked a hole in the Picasso painting "La Reve" ("The Dream"). He had just finalized a deal to sell the painting for a cool $139 million dollars. Good thing he is a bijillionaire or he might have been upset. Smack in the middle ... was a black ...

Not only is gambling illegal in Washington State…

Friday, June 16th, 2006

But apparently you can't even promote it now. According to this article on NWsource.com a Bellingham man got a cease and desist letter from the state for his site http://integritycasinoguide.com. I think the new law prohibiting online gambling is absolutely ridiculous in the first place, and I'm quite ...

How NOT to steal a SideKick II

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

An interesting collection of detective work going on trying to recover a friends stolen SideKick II. Chances of them actually getting it back are really slim, but the humiliation the thieves have and will go through won't be worth the cost of that phone! Oddly enough, I had a pager ...

Big blow to VOIP E911

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

People are already skeptical of ditching their land lines and moving to VOIP because of 911. And this certainly doesn't help. Vonage Puts VoIP 911 Caller on Hold, House Burns Down "I called 911 using Vonage broadband and they put us on hold," Veltkamp said when he was interviewed ...