Saturday, October 13, 2012

F1 and Speed to split

This is upsetting news. I've been an ardent follower of Steve Matchett , David Hobbs and Bob Varsha. Their knowledge of the sport is wonderful, their teamwork is top notch and they have just enough sarcasm and wit sprinkled into the broadcast to keep it interesting without making it silly. I sincerely hope that whatever NBC does with the broadcasts we don't end up with an entire season of time shifted nonsense. Back a few years ago when Fox broadcast a few of the races in time shifted fashion they changed broadcast crews, and they were terrible.

Friday, October 05, 2012

mint.com - Hello and Goodbye in 24 hours - Ads gone wild

Yesterday I tried mint.com. Today I deleted my account. Quicken was asking that I upgrade to the 2013 version for $60, but mint.com was free to try and could be lower ongoing, with a better interface to iPad. My account is now deleted for the following reasons:
  1. Unable to set goals - I loaded all my accounts, everything, including mortgage. When setting up the goal to payoff my mortgage the tool was unable to recognize that I had a loan. LOSE
  2. Too many ads - Switched to the iPad to see if perhaps it was better. Unfortunately, all that happened was a boatload of ads.
    • I see you paid an ATM fee, here's a bank that doesn't charge those
    • I see you are a good saver, ING has a great rate I have an ING account so that is a pointless ad
    • Quicken loans has great rates on your mortgage, perhaps we can save you money
Goodbye!