Category Archives: Rants

Review: What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson

By Jacob Allred | Published: November 19, 2009

I’ve had some bad luck with books lately. First, I finished What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson. Aside from the horrible writing style (oh wo is us! the after life for bad people is soooo horrible you just can’t even imagine. like seriously. its really really awful!), the doctrine it tries to teach is [...]

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Swaptree backs down

By Jacob Allred | Published: September 29, 2009

I’m a huge fan of BookMooch, an free book trading website. The website lets you put your old books up for trade. If someone requests a book, you send it to them at your own expense and receive a credit to get a book from another user. When you request a book from someone else, [...]

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Hard Candy, V for Vendetta, Dodgeball, and the US Movie Rating System

By Jacob Allred | Published: August 1, 2006

Let’s start with the US movie rating system. For those of you unfamiliar, there are a few basic ratings: G – General Audiences. Suited for people of any age. Normally like mellow historical movies or documentaries. And Disney movies (although most Disney movies nowadays are PG or PG-13). PG – Parental Guidance Suggested. Kids should [...]

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My new keyboard arrived!

By Jacob Allred | Published: July 26, 2006

Hurray! A new keyboard! And I almost entirely like it! It has a few quirks that I don’t entirely enjoy, but overall it is pretty good. Again, this is the Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard 4000. Things I like: The black and silver and very sharp looking. Even the “Do Not Remove – Safety Information” tag is [...]

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Yodlee OnCenter

By Jacob Allred | Published: July 24, 2006

So I’ve been using Yodlee for YEARS and recently they decided to rollout a new and “improved” version. It sucks. Really really really bad. Its horrible. They took one of the most useful pieces of technology available on the internet and took out everything wonderful about it and threw in a few (many) handfuls of [...]

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