November 29th, 2011, by The Angry Drunk 
My brother in arms Peter Cohen on the push back against telecommuting: I’m perfectly willing to compromise on pay and a cushy workplace if it means I’m able to stay home and work at my pace in my environment. But expect me to work for coolie wages and drive to the office every day? You must be joking. I couldn’t agree more. A few companies ago I spent three years working from home after the local office closed. Those were the three most productive years of my career. In that time we rebuilt a Quality Assurance department from the ground up, including developing new QA and Customer Satisfaction capture, evaluation and reporting systems from whole cloth. My current company, however, refuses to allow telecommuting even though I have a 25 mile one-way commute, I’m the sole person in my office in my department and the rest of my team is on another continent. It’s fucking insane.
November 29th, 2011, by The Angry Drunk 
I guess it’s time for yet another “generation” of tech workers to wake up to the fact that the bosses are lying. We aren’t special snowflakes whose precious skills are transforming the world. In reality we’re just as much cogs in the machine as the Chinese saps assembling our iPhones. I remember when I had that epiphany. It was in 1999 at the height of that tech boom when my boss flipped out because I had the audacity to leave when my shift was over. I told the crack-addled prick, “You pay me by the hour, I work by the hour. Take your bean-bag-chairs, foozeball tables and subdued lighting and shove it up your ass.” Life is too short and too special to waste making some other asshole rich.
November 29th, 2011, by The Angry Drunk
Jonathan Liu at Wired’s GeekDad blog breaks down the 5 greatest toys of all time. And by all time, for once, they don’t actually mean “since 2002″. The downside is that now we’re sure to see a Doctor Who branded “Geek (hipster) Approved”® Box for sale at ThinkGeek by Christmas.
November 28th, 2011, by The Angry Drunk
My learned colleague Harry Marks on noted imbecile Violet Blue’s opinion of the iPad vs. Kindle Fire as presented as part of one of ZDNet’s idiotic “Great Debates”: Question for Violet Blue: Have you actually used a Kindle Fire, or done some basic research? Hell, a quick Google search would’ve nullified most of your arguments in the time it probably took you to write this tripe. I would suggest a slightly different possibility. In its never-ending quest to slake its unquenchable thirst for page-views ZDNet has contrived yet another pointless “debate” about two products that compete with each other only in the febrile imaginations of delusional tech “journalists”. As to why Violet has taken the position she has — well, Steve Jobs was mean to her once…
November 22nd, 2011, by The Angry Drunk 
Warning: No actual political content ahead. Woah there hippy…slow down…read past the headline…this post isn’t quite what you think it is. You see, I’m pretty much in agreement with the Occupy movement. Unfortunately there is a dark, insidious, and frankly evil thing that has come out of the Occupy movement that needs to be squashed like the fucking cockroach it is. I’m referring to the sudden fetish of shit-bag “journalists” and lame-ass “hacktivists” to slap the word “occupy” in front of every gods damned thing that happens to annoy them. Case in point, two recent “movements” Occupy Flash and Occupy HTML (links both courtesy of Daring Fireball). Look, I don’t care what your position is on Flash or HTML “purity” (hint, Flash sucks crusty hobo dick). Something that all right-thinking people can agree on is that neither one of them needs to be fucking “occupied”. Come on people, we lost the war over “-gate”. Now we have to endure shitty headline after shitty headline about “Glassgate” and “Antennagate” and “My-Chalupa-Didn’t-Have-Enough-Fucking-Meat-In-It-Fucking-Gate”. It’s time we said enough is enough. Let’s take a stand and let these shit-birds know that we’re not going to take this lazy bullshit
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November 15th, 2011, by The Angry Drunk 
Yesterday Google posted an article on their blog with the wonderfully Orwellian title Greater choice for wireless access point owners. Addressing the persistent concerns over Google’s practice of gathering data on publicly accessible WiFi routers in order to bolster their location database Google has proposed a solution. Of course this being Google it’s an opt-out solution that 99% of the consumers purchasing a router will never know about. Worse yet, the “solution” is positively insulting to those who do know about it: We’re introducing a method that lets you opt out of having your wireless access point included in the Google Location Server. To opt out, visit your access point’s settings and change the wireless network name (or SSID) so that it ends with “_nomap.” For example, if your SSID is “Network,” you‘d need to change it to “Network_nomap.” That’s right, in order to protect the privacy of our personal networks Google wants us to modify the network name to conform to their arbitrary standards. I think that tonight I’ll be changing my network’s SSID to “Fuck you Google you arrogant assholes”.
November 15th, 2011, by The Angry Drunk
I’m somewhat amused by the members of the chattering class who’ve insisted from the outset that Apple’s primary, if not only, motivation for iTunes Match was extract $25 from people to “legitimize” their ill-gotten music collections who have now gone on to write reviews of iTunes Match showcasing their vast collection of non-iTunes Store media. So what you’re saying is…
November 9th, 2011, by The Angry Drunk
Jim Dalrymple at The Loop writing about his philosophy as a journalist: I believe that for me to be successful, my readers have to trust that what I write and post is honest. If I gain their trust, they will come back. If I’m constantly proven wrong, they won’t. If only more so-called “journalists” believed this.
November 9th, 2011, by The Angry Drunk
Warning: Political Content Ahead Booyah! My friends over in Mesa actually did the right thing and booted out the fascist piece of human garbage Russell Pearce. Combine that with Democrat Greg Stanton defeating Tea Party friendly Wes Gullet in the Phoenix mayoral election and this is a decent day for Arizona politics. Combine that with the wins in Mississippi, Ohio, Maine and elsewhere and it’s a pretty good day for sanity overall.
October 31st, 2011, by The Angry Drunk
Once again Harry Marks brings the pain so I don’t have to. Responding to the terminally atrocious Zack Whittaker at ZDNet and his pathetic attempt to whip up a new Apple “-gate” Harry writes: Forget the linkbaiting, I’d be happy if you just accepted your innate flaws in forming cohesive thoughts, logical arguments and properly constructed sentences. Truer words have never been spoken. I’ve come to the conclusion that Zack is absolutely the worst fucking writer in ZDNet’s stable of shit-bags — and I’m including the Tellarite in that assessment. Any self-respecting journalistic outfit would have shit-canned his ass long ago. Fuck, the very least they should do is buy him copies of “Logic for Fuctards” and “Grammar for Simpletons”.
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