To keep the Internet meme going, here’s my contribution to the rash of FAIL blog pictures I’ve been seeing everywhere.
German FAIL:
Captured from this site. Perhaps this is why it’s a free program…
Spotted on an eBay auction page:
How many vintage items? ALL OF TEHM!!11oneone
From Microsoft’s Partner Program today:
On August 27, 2008, Microsoft released Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 in English, German, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese. We will release Beta 2 in an additional 21 languages* within a month. Because you’re actively engaged in developing and maintaining websites, Microsoft wants to make you aware of a display issue related to Internet Explorer 8. Upon initial release, browsing in default Internet Explorer 8 Standards mode may cause content written for previous versions of Internet Explorer to display differently than intended. To enable existing content to display as expected, Microsoft is providing a compatibility tag that you can add to sites that might be affected. This tag instructs Internet Explorer 8 to display site content as if it were in Internet Explorer 7. This option helps ensure that existing content will continue to display seamlessly in Internet Explorer 8 without requiring any additional code changes.
A compatibility tag for IE 7? Wow, what a great idea.
How about sticking to published Internet standards, instead? Biznatches.
Thanks to Richard Bartle’s post about Beijing pronunciation, it sparked me to make my own comment about something that’s been bothering me since the opening ceremonies.
SAY THE J!
It’s bay jing, not bei zhing!
In America it seems common to make fun of Asian people because they can’t pronounce ‘L’s and ‘R’s properly, but every hour on the news they can’t say the ‘j’!
I don’t understand why this is so hard! Nobody calls me ‘Zhacob,’ why can’t they pronounce Beijing?
Please don’t display a dialog box for me to interact with if you aren’t ready to receive input.
Thank you.
Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of motorcycles on the roads. With the rising price of gasoline, it’s not terribly surprising. My wife and I are leaving for the U.K. on Friday and are preparing ourselves for the even higher price we’ll pay there with our rental car.
That said, this is something I just can’t understand:
Hastings is a book, CD, and DVD rental/sale store. The bag hanging off the handlebars is from there. With the riders’ recent purchase, no doubt. Now I’m all for believing in the general kindness of mankind, but trusting the general public not to walk away with your new movie is just a bit too much for me.
Surprisingly, this is not the craziest part of the picture. What you can’t see is where it’s parked—at Costco, a warehouse food and goods store. What possible item you can purchase there and still be able to take home on a motorcycle I cannot ken.
Last night around 9pm I got on the I-90 freeway to make my short way home. Unfortunately, it wasn’t as short as it should have been. Just after the last exit (too late to get off the freeway), I rounded a turn and saw backed up cars as far as there was freeway to see. After coming to a complete stop, I began the slow creep forward. It was so slow going I had to adjust the way I think of freeway speed. I was doing almost 11 minutes per mile. It took me 32 minutes to travel 3 miles.
About 3/4 of a mile from the next exit sat a sign that said Left land closed 2 miles ahead. Whoever placed that sign has no idea of distance, because the lane ended at the exit, less than a mile away. In fact, had the sign actually been 2 miles back the traffic may have been a little better. Only thanks to the trucker heroes that block lanes, though. I saw several jackasses drive through the rest stop and out the other side to get ahead of a bunch of cars, and one car that did this and continued up along the shoulder as long as he could. He cut off the car right in front of me, too. At no point did I ever see any police or traffic directors.
Today as Lorien and I were buying some new tank buddies for Steve, our goldfish, the lady at the fish section told us to hold the bag up high when we walked out of the store, because the tall pylons you walk by that sense stolen goods send out an electrical field that shocks the fish.
WTF? On our way out, I told Lorien I bet the have a security camera pointed on the entrance just to watch for people holding up their fish purchases so they can have a good laugh.
McGruff the crime dog has his own blog. He blogs about as often as, well, a dog can blog. Which is to say, about once int he last year:
blog text—nice!
Yesterday I wrote about my new fluorescent fixture and its bad instructions. This is what I’m talking about:
If you follow the picture, you can’t lose—everything works great. If you read the step, it tells you something totally different about connecting the left ballast’s wires to the holes on the left side and so on. I knew there was a reason I’ve always called them destructions and not instructions.
I’m trying to download a file for one of my servers. Since I don’t have a lot of room on the main drive (c:), I’m saving it to my d: drive. The problem is, all the downloaded bits are stored on c: until the entire file is completed, which is retarded. There isn’t enough room, so I can’t download the file, even though I have 600Gb free on d:
This kind of behavior is asinine If I want a file saved to a different location, why can’t the temporary file go there too?
Google Reader just reversed their logic for reading RSS feeds—instead of the Mark as Read checkbox at the bottom of each item, now it says Keep Unread. The problem is unless you click on the text of the article somewhere, it never gets marked as read in the first place.
I hate stupid UI changes.
We’re getting even more snow as I write this. Looks like at least an inch today.
I recently noticed I was being hotlinked from some retards on MySpace. I now rewrite all requests with myspace in the HTTP_REFERER header to a special image, as you can see below:
When will people learn that my Internet skillz are madder than theirs?
Thanks to CoronaLucas for the newer, shiny image that is now in place:
You can see the results on this retarded myspace death metal band’s website.
I understand how a blog would want to have some convenient links to other services, but this is plain ridiculous:
What purpose does it serve? This kind of icon overload is exactly what’s wrong with so much of the In-tar-web. It is “teh suxor.”