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There is a significant non-zero chance that my work laptop is going to be accidentally dropped into a bathtub or the toilet before it is life-cycled next August. With every [un]docking turning into an exercise in willing the video driver to not BSOD I’m just about ready to hasten its demise.
This crap doesn’t happen with my MacBook running linux. Just sayin’.
I don’t know how they did it, but Canonical turned the normally frustrating and inane Eclipse environment set up into a god damn dog’s breakfast rotting on the steps to the portal of hell.
I used to want to do a little brushing up on my Eclipse/Struts/Ajax skills but now I mostly just want to punch holes in walls.
I jokingly called Mirriam-Webster [1] a tool of the descriptivists in the middle of a grammar war. And then someone literally made my brain asplode.
[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/
[2] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally
What I love about XAML: Magic glue and event routing.
What I hate about XAML: Magic glue and event routing.
When it all works it’s really slick. When it doesn’t, finding out what bits of magic need tweaking really sucks. As in a full work day of suck.
At least there’s home made chicken pot pie in my future.
I don’t think I’ve expressed much love for MLB since 1994. I enjoy the game of baseball. I like some of the teams and players. I just absolutely hate the governing body of professional baseball.
A lot.
Another exhibit in the bottomless stack of reasons why I hate MLB is this bit of spam I receive at least once a week detailing ostensibly single fans of baseball in my geographical proximity. It is just plain wrong on so many levels and it shits me to no end. Yet every week there’s this:
I like to make snarky comments to the spam email I receive. It must be some vestigial thing left over from the days before email spam—when every email you received had been laboriously typed by someone you had a reasonable expectation to be corresponding with. Like there’s someone on the other side of this who gives a rat’s ass what I think about whatever intrusion they’re precipitating in my inbox.
Yet it doesn’t stop me.
And so it goes as I walk through my inbox.
Dumping ice water on your head is good and all but when my Facebook feed is >40% ice water challenge videos I’m going to say this feels a little played out. Let me know when the meme morphs into the bukkake challenge for HIV research.
I refuse to play your silly reindeer games, Starbucks. It’s small, medium, and large. Your faux Italian bullshit doesn’t fly with me.
Ding dong the witch is dead. The wicked witch is dead!
Windows Aero’s Shake “feature” [1] has to be the single most annoying GUI behavior I’ve ever run across. In fact it took more than a year to figure out why, sometimes, my desktop would immediately minimize every window except for one. Eventually I got fed up enough to employ DuckDuckGo [2] to find an explanation.
Turns out my usage habits have run headlong into Microsoft’s everything is a mobile app strategy. While on a phone a shake might be a useful gesture, it sucks for people like my when ported to the desktop. I have a habit of grabbing the chrome of the window I’m actively reading from. I also like to highlight text as I read it. All of this distracted clicking and dragging behavior while intently reading something gets interpreted by Aero as a desire to minimize every other freaking window on my desktop.
And for someone who has a great many windows open and positionally sorted, this goes beyond a rude interruption.
So I spent a few minutes after that looking for a way to disable this behavior via personal settings or the control panel or any other number of ways in which Microsoft scatters configuration across the operating system. All to no avail.
Today I did a bit more DuckDuckGoing [3] and discovered a registry entry that stops this insanity [4]. On the one hand–hooray! On the other, why is it that difficult to turn off a terribly unwelcome and intrusive behavior?
So endeth today’s sermon as to why Microsoft sucketh…in my humble opinion.
For what it’s worth, Apple isn’t any great shakes in this arena either.
[1] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/features/shake
[2] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=why+does+every+window+except+the+active+one+minimize
[3] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how%20to%20disable%20windows%20aero%20shake
[4] http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-7/disable-aero-shake-in-windows-7/
I don’t listen to a lot of commercial broadcast radio so maybe this has been a thing for a long time. But, still, this is new to me. Apparently a certain segment of the vaping/e-cigarette crowd is anti-government. I heard a commercial about every seven minutes today suggesting that vaping is, amongst other awesome things, a tax dodge.
Stick it to the man and his obscene taxes on tobacco–vape instead of smoke!
And Tea Partyists believe they are a political group instead of a marketing demographic.