TechnoClippings

Sometimes you wonder why a company would make its users jump through hoops just to access its own site…

AT&T bought SBC recently and they emailed me stating that I had to change my username because it didn’t meet their “new guidelines”

Hello? How about changing your guidelines instead of making thousands of users update their usernames to remove the ‘@’ symbol? And what does AT&T say will happen if you don’t update your username? “If you do not change your User ID by May 11, 2006, you will not be able to sign on using your MySBC.com account. We apologize for any inconvenience.” How nice.

Of course, that doesn’t matter because I got this message after changing my username:

Sometimes you just can’t win :-)

Tags: username, stupid rules, at&t, att, sbc

When flying, you usually expect to pay more for greater distance. Flying from San Francisco to Los Angeles is a lot cheaper than to Tokyo. However, it seems that there’s a point at which you pay more the closer you get…

I was on United’s site and, just for the hell of it, priced out a flight from Oakland airport to San Francisco. I believe the distance between the two to be roughly 12 miles as the crow, I mean the jet, flies.

Those are some very expensive miles, check it out:

The perceptive among you will have noticed that, although the title states “Oakland to San Francisco”, the trip details actually have us flying from SFO to Sacramento (yes, that would be a bug). This is much more reasonable, after all SMF is a whopping 80miles away!

And I bet they don’t even serve drinks :-)

Tags: oak, sfo, smf, united, flying