Yesterday, my wife went to get a prescription filled. She'd purposely had the prescription written up for a "generic" version of the drug to keep costs down. When she went to pick it up, the pharmacy told her that IHC wouldn't pay for the generic, so we had the option of paying for it ourselves...
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It's not often that I get really angry, and I usually calm down before telling the world about it when I do. So it was a few days ago when Comcast disconnected my cable (including high speed internet and thus my Vonage telephone) four and a half days earlier at my old address than they...
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Back in June, Blogger busted itself slightly by starting to insert divs at the top and bottom of each entry body to clear floats. I'm guessing they did it to be sure that entries with floated images in them don't end up stacked next to each other. The problem is that I (and some others,...
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Advertising doesn't lie! Or at least when a company advertises their own products' weaknesses, you can believe they're at least as bad as they say they are. So I guess Toyotas must be busted.

The ad I'm referring to is the one where they brag that they have nine models that get better than 30...
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Today, a Comcast broadband customer tried to sign up on one of my websites. After they submitted the registration form, our system sent them an email, but it appears that Comcast's spam filter misidentified and blocked it. The customer emailed me, and I got their account activated. I'd guess that we've lost a number of...
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The "runaway bride" that cost taxpayers who knows how much money has sold the rights to her story for $500,000. Is she going to have to pay for all the efforts that went into searching for her? I would be in favor of laws that allowed the government to increase fines charged to people who...
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I don't know how long it's been since they fixed this, but I check again this morning and discovered that enabling comments on Blogger-generated blogs that publish to PHP, ASP, SHTML, etc. powered sites is now safe! Back at the end of March, I posted a message on Bugtraq outlining a vulnerability that I'd reported...
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Wired 13.05: VIEW: "I searched for the stupidest, most dysfunctional US industry I could find. The automotive and energy industries - beset by entrenched interests, sclerotic management, and stifling oversight - were tempting. But the worst has to be health care. Health care has every quality Christensen lists as dangerous: crippling regulation, overcharged customers, enraged...
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Google Toolbar Keeps Controversial Linking Feature: "Google executives have stressed that they are only giving users more choice. AutoLink does not add links unless a user clicks on a toolbar button to initiate the feature."

I hadn't realized at first that AutoLink had to be activated by clicking a button each time the user arrives...
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I just got a letter from IHC notifying me of the following changes to my family's health insurance:

50% increase in family medical deductable

50% increase in family out of pocket maximum

60% increase in prescription deductable

166% increase in cost of non-participating emergency room treatment

400% increase in cost of participating emergency room treatment...
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