Blogs of a bunch of friends

21 June 06 - 18:45Movietickets.com, oh how do you suck?

Let me count the ways...

1. If you don't accept cookies, and try to log in, you are simply redirected back to the mainpage with no sort of warning.
2. You can "sign in" by just providing an email address in their system. For example, go log in with the email address johnsmith@mailinator.com. If the email address isn't in the system, it will give you an error. Go ahead and try it some of your friends email addresses.
3. When you ask for your password hint to be mailed to you, it sends you the hint. That's it. No other text in the body of the email. No way to reset your password if the hint isn't enough.
4. A surcharge of $1 per ticket. Not per order, per TICKET!
5. When you are asked for your credit card information to complete a sale, it uses the name provided when the account is created. So I guess you can't use someone else's credit card.

You suck Movietickets.com

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13 June 06 - 15:34You suck Windows Media Player

So I am sitting here working on a newly installed Windows XP Pro setup and I double click on an audio file. As this was the first time I ran Windows Media Player, a dialog came up asking a couple of questions about basic settings. With those answered, I click the affirmative answer in the dialog and and am presented with Windows Media Player not playing the file I had asked for. It seems remembering what file I had initially asked for is too hard for Windows Media Player. You suck Windows Media Player.

Addendum: I moved your start menu entry for a reason. I really didn't need it to be restored to the original place. You continue to suck Windows Media Player.

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