Category Archives: Rants

Grumble grumble grumble. Curmudgeonly postings, things that annoy me or piss me off.

This is supposed to be simple, right?

2007/02/22 – 02:22

So, I’ve been spending more time working on coming up with my own feed aggregator. I’ve learned some pretty interesting things so far, as well as just how FUBAR RSS and Atom happen to be. You’d think that this would all be somewhat simple, and in an ideal world, it probably would. [...]

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By emag | Also posted in Programming, Technology | Comments (2)

Package Tracking Sucks

2007/02/09 – 11:03

All the major package carriers, even the USPS, offers some form of package tracking. They all work slightly differently, and all have their plusses and minuses, but they all suck. Why? It doesn’t have to be that way, if only they’d make an effort to provide more visibility into routing information that [...]

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By emag | Also posted in General | Comments (6)