- iTunes is a virus.
- Norton Antivirus is a virus.
- WordPress is incessantly yelling at me to “Please update now.” I don’t want to have to update software every other day.
- I bought this little AA battery charger from Radio Shack. The “plug” prongs fold out from the back, such that the charger is flush against the wall. The prongs are positioned such that regardless of whether it’s plugged into the upper or lower outlet receptacle, the other receptacle is covered. ?!?!
- My mother-in-law recently purchased a large flatscreen TV. The “buttons” on the TV are touch-sensitive spots on the border of the screen. I know minimal interfaces are awesome these days, but with no tactile feedback, in the low-light conditions, when I try to turn off the TV, I usually succeed, but not until I’ve changed the channel, volume and input as well. Sometimes I sit there running my finger up and down the “button” area, changing all kinds of stuff before it turns off. Come on, GIVE ME SOME MANLY BUTTONS!
- Blogs are such a horrible format, to have become so popular. They usually are set by default to load a bazillion posts onto the index page, for a massively slow load time. And the navigations is more similar to sequential memory rather than random access, making posts hard to find.
- I used to think tag clouds were neat, until I realized they are very rarely useful to an actual end user. Who cares which words the author uses most frequently? Or what other people are searching for? Maybe 1%? Tag clouds are not made for someone looking for specific information, and pretty much everyone is looking for specific information.
- … hm, thought I had another one, but I’m out of whines.
Have a nice, positive day!
