Wednesday, March 19, 2014

The Folly of Gym Specials

(CAUTION: There is sarcasm in this post)

I love gyms that spend an inordinate amount of time promoting specials to get your friends and family to sign up. They promote these special as if they're something good for existing members. The only true winner is the gym.
Stop acting you're being my best friend and give me something for my loyalty. Otherwise, it just seems fake.
Don't get me wrong, I like my gym (LA Fitness), but they pound these specials into our heads constantly.
They're not the only ones. It only pays to be a new Comcast customer, not an old one. Same thing with AT&T, etc.

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Mashable uses poor headline for iOS critque


Tech journalism site Mashable posted a decent article about the pros and cons of iOS 7.1. Unfortunately, the headline is a tad misleading.There is some discussion at the end the article about "what's wrong?" but it is far outweighed by praise for the new OS changes.

Looking for links, Mashable?

Ironically, the article didn't mention the confusing changes to the shift key on the virtual keyboard. They missed the boat there.