Yahoo Finance message boards

… has to be the biggest waste of space on the interwebs. Clearly Yahoo doesn’t give a shit about them since they are not policed in the slightest and riddled with spam, trolls, and crazies. There are absolutely no insightful conversations going on for any stock. I wonder why they even bother keeping them around.

Commerce Bank’s huge security failure

My checking account is part of Commerce Bank which about a year ago was bought out by TD Bank. Up until this summer their site http://www.commerceonline.com still worked for all my online banking. The theme had changed on the site but all the same login functionality was there. Then September 20th rolled around and . . . → Read More: Commerce Bank’s huge security failure

Sound pollution

I must finally reveal to the world my secret for the solution to help curb NYC sound pollution and hope someone out there somehow finds a way to get this done. The solution… ::drumroll:: is to track taxi cab horn usage and impose fines based on excessive horn use. I know , I know . . . → Read More: Sound pollution

smokeping’s whacky source

I’ll first start off by saying I think smokeping is a great program and Tobi Oetiker is a great programmer whose contributions to the community have been great and in no way could I ever create MRTG or RRDTool. But…. After downloading the source to smokeping today and trying to configure it to run, . . . → Read More: smokeping’s whacky source

Instruction booklets for furniture

Since moving into the city I’ve had to assemble a lot of furniture from ikea and other various places. Today while putting together snack tables from bed bath & beyond I believe I discovered my source of why I hate putting this crap together, the instructions.

You see in order to save money on . . . → Read More: Instruction booklets for furniture