I have several subscriptions to Microsoft services, such as MSDN, TechNet, etc. I realized that they expect people to use their browser to access their site, but do they have to make it so other browsers can't access?
Case in point:
I hate local news. TV, newspaper, whatever. But more than anything else, this is what bothers me:
Nice job, Spokesman Review. This is what your site looks like in my browser.
People and pictures of poor grammar and/or misuse of apostrophes really amuse me. For example:
The part I enjoy most is both the appropriate and inappropriate use of the apostrophe. I see this truck around town from time to time. I finally had a camera handy and snapped a picture of it. I also submitted it to GrammarBlog.
Can someone tell me WHAT THE BLOODY HELL was going on with I90 this morning? Traffic was at a stand-still from Highway 41 in Post Falls all the way to the NW Blvd exit in Cd'A—which was blocked off! Note, the next exit is already closed, so who's brilliant mind was behind this move? If I treated my job the way these people do I wouldn't be working, that's all I have to say.
It never ceases to amaze me when a journalist uses the wrong word. I mean, it's their job to pick the right one, right?
Case in point: this article from a local paper.
A young man, Kyle Jarvis, taking a short cut to catch a bus found the truck in an abandoned barn. The barn’s door had been closed. Jarvis knew that was unusual and peaked inside.
So, as the Pacific plate slowly crashed into the North American plate, Mr. Jarvis was pushed to the highest altitude he had yet attained, thus he peaked inside the abandoned barn.
Even after leaving a sarcastic comment, it remains uncorrected.
I've been annoyed ever since I got an iPhone with the fact that iTunes doesn't pay any attention to the multimedia buttons on my laptop. I finally got around to Googling the issue and found a solution: Control iTunes with laptop media buttons
So as much as I wish my iPhone would die in a fire, at least now I can listen to some podcasts and stop/start them with the extra buttons like it should have worked all along.
PS Apple's Google-hating is really pissing me off. I will totally switch to an Android-based OS next chance I get…
Today I ran across this captcha:
I have no idea what that second word is (Channel, Chamfer, Champion?). This is one more example of how many things on the 'net are broken.
Take SMTP (RFC 821) for example. It was written in 1982 as a mechanism to deliver electronic mail. Despite being added to over the years, it's still basically the same, security-flawed protocol it's always been. Which is why we have email spam today. My corporate mail server processes around 15,000 emails per day, of which only about 2.5% actually gets delivered. That means about 97.5% of mail delivered to us is junk. What a colossal waste of resources!
I know there are a lot of stupid people out there, but everybody knows that crunchberries aren't real. Well, at least I thought everybody knew.
Alas, only in America would there be someone that not only didn't realize crunchberries weren't real, but also file a law suit about it.
Normally I don't have a problem with Dell, they take pretty good care of me, and I get a good discount on hardware.
This, however, is an exception:
(Sorry for the poor quality, came from my iPhone again—its close-up photography is teh s uck)
Let me clarify this picture. Those 12 screws were $1.99 each. Anything that sticks out at all will stop the device from being inserted into the server. And of course you need four per hard drive. Seriously, is that really necessary? This is a lot of goodwill lost over a stupidly cheap part, guys.
In case you don't know about this, now you will. And it will ruin all future road trips. Once you know about them, you'll see them all the time.
For some strange reason, there are a number of people that have a fear of stopping to relieve themselves while on the freeway. So they use a bottle. While they're driving. And since it's really gross to have a jug o' pee sitting around in your car, they then throw them out the window. Unbelievably, this happens all the time. Seriously, look at the sides of the road next time you're on a freeway.
To help raise awareness, the State of Washington has these plastered in the rest areas:
My problem with the whole thing is they're missing their target audience—those are the guys that aren't stopping at the rest areas in the first place!
PS: Ewww!
While taking a break and tweeting I noticed my browser was underlining a word it didn't recognize.
I can't believe that isn't in my local dictionary…
This is what pisses me off about ASP/VB. It's bad enough I have to write in it anyway, but come on! Dimensioning a variable to 5 should mean you can only have 5 elements, not 6!
Thanks for writing a Server.URLEncrypt function for ASP.
You really suck for not writing a URLDecrypt fuction.
I hate you. I love PHP.
The end.
A cow-orker recently entered a bug in our tracking software for an error message with our software security. Apparently it is formatted all wonky with a couple of random newlines.
The results were duplicated on two machines: both running Windows 7. Once the two of us responsible for correcting this "bug" realized this, we failed it with extreme prejudice. If you get weird results from a beta OS don't come crying to me…
I had my laptop running Linux overnight, and it synchronizes with NTP services to keep accurate time. It handled the Daylight Savings Time change perfectly. I rebooted in to Windows this morning and it added another hour to the clock because it didn't get to yet. Stupid Windows.