Gmail
Gmail is almost unbearable for me to use on Firefox at work or at home. At home I get authentication popups every 10 - 15 seconds. Most clicks then become unresponsive. At work, closing gmail locks up my browser for about 8 seconds and just runs horribly slow. As of today clicking the reply button makes the reply box disappear on both machines. So I decided I would check my email in Internet Explorer instead. I got a JavaScript error while it loaded, rendering it useless. I had to settle with leaving an opera browser open all day to get email. My patience for gmail is slowly dwindling away. I noticed these problems only started when google upgraded to the newest version of gmail. Unfortunately its not easy to switch email services, everyone already has my email address and theres just no better alternative.

Wordpress
This wonderful blog is powered by wordpress. I think one of the reasons I don’t post as often as I would like is because of how fed up I am with this platform. To begin, tinyMCE is horrendous. We ended up using it at CollegeHumor for our article writer. We had to hack so much of the code up to get it to play nice with user input. Most of the problems came from copy and pasting from miscellaneous word/notepad applications. tinyMCE is now disabled on this blog, which solved a small portion of my problems. I have thought about switching to tumblr, but I’m too lazy to set that up and import everything here over. I also find their platform to be over simplified and lacking functionality.

Time Warner
My cable TV works 50% of the time, it skips, it freezes and it drops packets. In order to use on demand you have to unplug the box, wait 5 minutes for it to reboot and then order a video. The internet isn’t actually that bad. I get decent speeds (nothing compared to Optimum when I lived on Long Island) and its reliable for the most part. But they did something the other day they pissed me off. They high jacked the not found web addresses with a suggestion page full of text ads. How are these huge companies not getting the hint that this pisses customers off? Did no one learn anything when verisign did this? Fortunately I was able to change my preferences to prevent this from happening, but this should have been opt-in from the beginning. Did I mention I pay $130 a month for cable and internet? The only alternative is New York City is RCN, which raised their price $30 a month and caused me switch to Time Warner in the first place, but lets be honest RCN wasn’t much better.