This is an archive of my shorter book reviews and notes, which historically have been posted over at the 50 Book Challenge on LiveJournal, but which I’m starting to move over here. I’m posting them with altered date-stamps, but they might show up in my LiveJournal cross-post anyway. Bear with me, please. Note: Many of […]
Personal(ish) update…
First, I’d like to quickly address the Kathy Sierra fiasco by expressing my support for living in a sane world where women do not feel like it’s perfectly normal to be threatened on a regular basis. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, then you’re not reading many blogs, and you’ll probably be a […]
New Blog Carnival: Carnival of Full-time RV’ing
Hi, all! I’m announcing the creation of a new blog carnival, hosted right here in my own blog: The Carnival of Full-time RV Travel. A blog carnival is a way to gather and distribute to a community several blog articles on a particular subject– in this case, RV travel. I hope that my friends and […]
Rejected: City Water
“City Water” was rejected from Cthulhu Sex Magazine. I got the rejection yesterday.
Businesses: Bad Customer Experiences are Always Your Fault
I would like to ask every company that charges for customer service calls what the hell you think you’re doing. In what universe do you have the moral high ground when you charge users for something that is entirely your fault? If you get a service call from a customer, and the customer says “It’s […]