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I Will Never Fly United Again
Tuesday, June 10, 2008 2:24 PM

Mental note: Never fly United ever, ever again. Please cancel my United frequent flyer membership and flush all my miles down the proverbial toilet on one of your crappy planes. We all know how bad off the airline industry is. They are limping along, or at best, trying to ‘reinvent’ themselves in to some kind of relevancy while slowly stripping us of benefits... Read More...

by Chris Haaker | 2 comment(s)

Filed under: Rants, Misc

Boycott the RIAA in March
Saturday, February 24, 2007 10:32 AM

Gizmodo is proposing March as "Boycott the RIAA Month." I, for one, am happy to join in. There arent many groups I am in disagreement with when it comes to trying to increase their revenue income, but the MPAA and RIAA have been so blind to making a system for fair digital consumption of their respective media for America that it boggles the mind! They could... Read More...

by Chris Haaker | with no comments

Filed under: Rants, Misc

And Now Back to Exchange ...
Friday, December 29, 2006 1:53 PM

A week out of the blogosphere feels good - and a refreshing way to recharge the batteries! Of course, now I have to wade through 700+ news items. I have not removed my laptop from its bag since December 22nd. It was hard at times, but I made it. I noticed a lot of people are getting their blogs in a knot over Microsoft giving out some review laptops loaded with... Read More...

by Chris Haaker | 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Exchange, Rants, Blogging

Flickr Down and Out
Wednesday, December 13, 2006 11:39 AM

Something weird is going on over at Flickr. Could just be a blip, perhaps something has crashed? All the photos in my blog linked to my Flickr account cannot be viewed and when I sign in I get the resulting screenshot . . . odd. Technorati tags: Flickr , Flickr Outage Share this post: Read More...

by Chris Haaker | with no comments

Filed under: Rants, Misc, Blogging

Michigan is No. 2 - So What?
Wednesday, November 22, 2006 10:18 AM

Disclaimer: I am a die-hard Ohio State Buckeyes fan. Everyone in the country who loves college football is talking about this and yet, I feel compelled to put my two cents in. It is most likely due to this being the day before Thanksgiving - who wants to actually work? I wont recount every argument I have heard on ESPN , ESPN Radio and in the press. There is... Read More...

by Chris Haaker | with no comments

Filed under: Ohio State Football, Rants

Goodbye RSS Bandit, Hello FeedDemon
Tuesday, November 21, 2006 5:09 PM

Now that I have made the switch to Windows Vista full time I have had to re-think my RSS reader. I originally switched to RSS Bandit after being a long time FeedDemon user one day when FeedDemon pushed me over the edge with its activation. I work as a consultant and systems engineer and I love to beta test software and generally experiment. As such, I rebuild... Read More...

by Chris Haaker | 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Rants, Blogging

WTF - Podcast Management in Zune
Thursday, November 16, 2006 5:40 PM

I know, I ranted on the Zune already, but how the heck did the Zune team overlook building in some kick-butt pod\blogcast management and subscription tools in to the Zune player and software? It seems glaringly apparent to me that the only qualification for being on the team for this device was a love of obscure indie music and the color brown. Pod\blogcasts... Read More...

by Chris Haaker | with no comments

Filed under: Rants, Misc, Podcasting

More Live Writer Experiences
Tuesday, August 22, 2006 2:52 PM

Well, the Live Writer experience continues. I know - beta software! And even more beta are the community developed plug-ins. The FLICKR plug-in fails to work for me. It just churns and churns after I select my tag to search on and hit the magnifying glass. If I click on the window at any point after that - I get a crash - and I have sent it off to the beta team... Read More...

by Chris Haaker | with no comments

Filed under: Rants

One Live Writer Nit
Monday, August 21, 2006 2:44 PM

Maybe I am overlooking it - but I dont see where I can set my default font in Live Writer. I have to compose in Trebuchet MS each time and then convert to another font before posting .... Share this post: Read More...

by Chris Haaker | 2 comment(s)

Filed under: Rants