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Innumeracy Part N

Posted in July 20th, 2008
by Mark Nelson in Snarkiness, Complaining

This isn’t the first time I’ve complained about innumeracy, and I’m sure it won’t be the last. Just to get off on the right foot, let me give the definition of the word from thesite innumeracy.com:
A term meant to convey a person’s inability to make sense of the numbers that run their lives. Innumeracy was […]

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I Trust American Express With My Money?

Posted in December 11th, 2007
by Mark in Business, Snarkiness, Complaining

If you’re going to use the web to perform a survey of your customer base, this report on a similar project from American Express should serve as a cautionary tale.

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Anchorage, we have a problem

Posted in May 20th, 2007
by Mark in Snarkiness

With the tight security at our nation’s airports, it’s kind of surprising to see a security warning from Windows show up on the Anchorage airport’s flight status screens!

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Cringley Refutation Takes a Couple of Years, But Satisfying Nonetheless

Posted in July 26th, 2006
by Mark in Snarkiness

The world is full of people making miraculous claims for video compression. For example, the hucksters at Euclid Discoveries have been leading their investors on with tales of incredible video compression for years now. No doubt that somebody, someday, might make a quantum leap in video compression, but for the past 25 years it’s […]

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