Archive for the 'Rants and Raves' Category

Cancelling Netflix

Thursday, June 16th, 2005

I’m trying to cancel my Netflix account. The website tells me to call customer service to cancel. The customer service recording tells me to cancel at the website. I’ve waited on hold for 30 minutes two separate times now. I can find no email address on Netflix’s site to complain.

Making it extremely hard to cancel […]

Favorite Mexican restaurant

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005

My favorite Mexican restaurant in Grand Rapids - possibly my favorite restaurant of any kind in Grand Rapids - is Caramba just off the corner of Leonard and Fuller. Jose is the owner, and he’s a great guy, but the food … oh the food!

My wife is from Texas, and Paula and I lived there […]

Great blogs: pluralsight.com

Monday, February 28th, 2005

There are only two blogs that I read on a daily basis. I’ve already mentioned Joel on Software. The other is pluralsight.com. I’m not exactly sure of their business model, but they have many of the best Windows minds in the industry (Don Box for example) writing on one aggregated feed. It’s top-notch reading […]

Thank you, Holiday Inn Atlanta North

Monday, February 28th, 2005

Coming back from vacation a couple of weeks ago, my family and I got stuck overnight in Atlanta. Since it was weather-related, the airlines only gave us a discount on a hotel, but at least it was a nice one. Like a dufus, I managed to leave my cell phone charger in the room. Such […]

The joys and sorrows of Yahoo! Store

Monday, February 28th, 2005

One of the quickest ways to get a web store up and running is to use Yahoo! Store - or as it is now called Yahoo! Small Business Merchant Solutions. They have very decent, web-based software for entering catalog items, managing sales, accepting credit cards, and all the other minor things that are necessary to […]

Cool site: CSS Zen Garden

Wednesday, January 12th, 2005

I really love this design site:

http://www.csszengarden.com

It shows how creative you can be with a website while still making it XHTML/CSS compliant. The resource guide it references is very useful for getting better at css.

Great site: Joel on Software

Sunday, January 9th, 2005

One of my favorite sites these days is joelonsoftware.com. Joel Spolsky is a Microsoft veteran and an outstanding writer who began blogging before it was called blogging. Joel also started his own company, Fog Creek Software, and he writes about it extensively on his site. His take on microeconomics is pretty darn funny and surprisingly […]