Rantings of a New Yorker

The move to our new server and split with Loss of Privacy has gone well.  We should now be able to post more frequently and much more on topic.  Enjoy!

If you have some free time and want to see how much of the world’s geography you really know, then head on over to the The Traveler IQ Challenge and test yourself. I’ve already clocked in about 30 minutes of wasted time.  I need to go waste more because I can’t seem to get past [...]

This week, I’ve been wasting a bit of time surfing around the net and generally goofing off. These are some of the more interesting things I’ve looked at this week. Some are older sites, but who cares, they still wasted some time for me. A man, who has far more time to waste than I [...]

This morning, I came across a post from TechCrunch, discussing the emerging markets of free phone calls to many places in the world, particulary AllFreeCalls.net. The FCC has some very complicated laws, making it, at times, difficult to understand all the fees and loopholes that phone companies have. After some digging, I came across some [...]

This is pure rant. I’m pissed. When I leave for work in the morning, it’s still slightly dark outside. About three miles down the road, it’s light enough that you don’t need your headlights on. Still, the idiots out on the road think you do and most of them have their high beams on. I [...]

This post originally started out as a letter to my nephew, however, these are practical tips that just about everyone could learn from. When you first move out on your own, you think that you know everything and there’s nothing anyone can teach you. This often leads to traps and pitfalls that could have been [...]

Email me a question at rantingnewyorker(at)just-a-webpage.com and I’ll answer it for you. How do I uninstall google from my computer? From Kay in Omaha Well, Kay, you can’t. Google is a deep and evil thing that will track anything you do. The only thing you can do is to buy a new computer as google [...]