Soliciting Fame » Flaws

Here, Take My Personal Info, PLEASE!

Eric — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:21:11 +0000

Many people, and a lot of my friends, complain about their “private data” being made known to large companies. Facebook, Rogers, and other huge companies constantly get flak for collecting personal information about their clients. But they do this to make advertising and your overall user experience MORE RELEVANT. Sears however, sucks at this:

This is a prime example of why I don’t care if a company has my demographic information. It’s not even that personal. Hell, there needs to be some sort of “OpenCookie” standard where I can plant a cookie in my browser that says I’m 23, male, and from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada so that the next time I search for coffee equipment I’m not being hit with bra advertisements that are completely irrelevant to me.

Old Computers Think They Have IE7

Eric — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:30:27 +0000

Cleaning out my friend’s old HP Pavilion 522n required using ONLY the 8 recovery CD’s to reinstall Windows XP Home.

After an hour of just uninstalling the default crap I started up IE to go to Windows Update’s site and I was greeted with this.

Apparently Microsoft assumes that the only reason you will go to runonce.msn.com is if you are installing IE 7. IE 6 also claimed the site had errors on the page, lol.

Ubuntu thinks you’re behind

Eric — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:06:45 +0000

From http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu:

Ubuntu website screenshot

I went to download Ubuntu for an extra computer I have and I was presented with these options. Apparently Ubuntu thinks that ordering a CD and waiting 6-10 weeks is better than waiting for 700mb even on the slowest connection.