Gordon's Notes

Gabapentin  was developed as a focal seizure medication and has been found to be effective for neuropathic pain syndromes in diabetic neurop...

I wrote this for Facebook friends but I keep seeing people praising the "Free Tax" program and dissing Turbo Tax -- without any ac...

[Update 3/6/2022: After I exposed this scam I revisited our purchase history and the listing for the scam subscription had changed. Instead ...

We’ve been using Quicken for Mac for the past year. I’m satisfied with the software, but I no longer trust their pricing and renewal. We pa...

Amazon reviews have long been helpful to me, and were once a big part of Amazon’s value proposition. That is no longer true. Amazon is filt...

Around 2:30pm Amex.app tells me a $1.00 authorization charge has been placed for Priceline. Which I didn’t do.  I’m in a meeting so I figur...

It’s a human thing. Something insane happens and we try to figure out “why now?”. We did a lot of that in the fall of 2001. Today I looked b...

Fourteen  months ago I wrote that Trump was a sign of a healthy democracy . That one might rank up with my Peak Oil prediction . I’m really...

More than 90% of ‘genuine’ Apple chargers & cables sold on Amazon are fake, says Apple . Finally. Sold “Direct from Amazon” mind you. A...

The New York Times did a superb series this fall on how large corporations changed American law to neutralize a major consumer protection — ...

The health insurance industry is consolidating. Aetna acquired Humana and Anthem bought Cigna . That leaves UnitedHealth, Aetna and Anthem ...

WaPo has a delightfully meta-subversive headline for an article about the failings of 21st century capitalism:  This Kardashian headline sho...

I’ve been digging into thunderbolt 2 lately. It’s an orphan technology — sure looks like Apple has given up on it. In retrospect either App...

I got this AT&T text message the other day... Except, of course, I never requested paperless billing. I suppose I should have for pure...

Today the NYT reported on a flood of “counterfeit” bike parts out of China . The parentheses are there because the article mixes up true cou...

Happy accident frauds are emergent frauds — nobody needs to plan them. Don’t put your Disability Claims office on the fifth floor of a bui...

Brad DeLong , as best I can tell, does not lead the Washington Center for Equitable growth . Along with Nick Bunker he does, however, prod...

In the spirit of the season, which science tells us is Scrooge before his psychotic break, a call out to Amazon, Pottermore, and Apple. To ...

Nick Heer described AT&T’s customer activity tracking best … AT&T Stops Using Undeletable Phone Tracking IDs — Pixel Envy … Here...

I missed this last year, but it’s worth knowing about. The usual suspects are exploiting weak security on tax returns ; they steal identitie...