• Orbitz… And Go Nowhere!™

    Trying to book a flight and hotel room on Orbitz is un-fucking-believably painful. My reservations have been inprocess (and unconfirmed) for going on three hours now. After an informational dry run last night, I went to Orbitz early this afternoon to make my bookings. I went through the search, and, from the list of available…

  • Quark Relaxes Infamously Miserly Licensing

    Adobe, Macromedia, even Microsoft permits installing a single copy of their software on two computers for the use of one person without additional licensing fees. These “dual-system/single-user” licensing allows professional or power users to maintain copies of software on their work desktop computers as well as on laptops or home computers for out-of-office work without…

  • Quark: Educational Promotion for QuarkXPress

    Announced at the same time as its newly free Dual Licensing, Quark launched a special promotion for educators and students. The promotion will allow educational users to purchase QuarkXPress 6 software with maximum convenience at an affordable price. Accredited schools with course offerings that require QuarkXPress can also purchase the software in a deeply discounted…

  • Child Creates Video Game To Fight Cancer

    Make a Wish kid makes a game to fight cancer – Joystiq “ Ben is a 4th grade kid who had cancer. His doctor told him to visualize the disease going away, so Ben and his mom came up with the idea of using Pac-Man. This Pac-Man would run around inside him and eat the…

  • Woman who got wrong sperm wins suit

    My god! Can you imagine the terror she must have felt for the following six months? That poor woman! Woman who got wrong sperm wins suit – PittsburghLIVE.com “ WILMINGTON, N.C. — A jury awarded $435,000 to a woman who was accidentally inseminated with unprepared sperm at a fertility clinic. The award to Kelly Chambliss…

  • A Little Customer Service Effort Goes A Long Way

    Over on Seth’s Blog is this interesting post: “ The thing is, every single person who walks into the Lost Baggage office is annoyed, disappointed, upset or angry. And the hurdle that American has to get over is trivial. “Hi, guys. You look like your luggage is lost. I’m really sorry. Would everyone in the…