Me: I get depressed about being alone
Doc: Everyone dies alone
It’s not the dieing alone part that sucks, it’s the living alone part I can’t stand.
Archive for the ‘cranky’ Category
You are not helping
Thursday, May 10th, 2012Think about your inputs
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012If, for example, you have a date input field, and you are going to automatically enter the separators between month, day, and year, just don’t allow the user to insert extras, only use the numeric keys entered, and ignore any extra key strokes. This is not rocket science people, seriously.
The end is here (for gmail)
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012The old look seems to have been well and truly kilt. While I have at least one account still signed in with the classic look, another account has been forced into the new look and no longer has the option of going back. Will there be a massive wailing and gnashing of teeth, or is this truly the non-issue that Larry thinks it is?
Ironically, for all the time they spent ‘fixing’ it before they forced it out, it’s still is broken and dysfunctional. Lines of text that are supposed to be at the bottom of the page, are instead showing up about 2/3′rds of the way down, leaving a massive ugly block of whitespace.
You’d think…
Wednesday, April 11th, 2012You’d think that if anyone would be extra careful about bothering to stop for pedestrians in a crosswalk, it would be an ambulance driver, but if that’s a Tri-Met ambulance, you’d be wrong apparently. Despite having tons of time to stop, and an unobstructed view for a hundred of yards in each direction, the driver refused to stop for a pedestrian already IN the crosswalk. He wasn’t on an emergency call, no lights or siren, just a careless indifference to human life. And maybe that’s it, in a sort of Nicholas Cage of Bringing Out the Dead kind of way, the driver just doesn’t care anymore, at least not until you are a patient.
Whatever his excuse, it was darned annoying, and proof that my habit of never trusting any driver (or cyclist for that matter), is the right one to have.
Disaster averted?
Monday, April 9th, 2012A few weeks ago, I finally got down to my bank to fill out the paperwork to switch to their ‘budget pay’ program, an every-other-Friday pay scheme that nets an extra payment per year, the kind of thing that adds up in the good direction, for a mortgage.
When I’m there, I ask the woman when they will start taking payments under the new scheme, and she assures me that it will start up this month. Except that by the end of last Friday, there was still no payment made. Looking at the paperwork, I’m now 99.999% certain she was wrong, and that if I hadn’t manually done a full month’s payment, I would have ended up ‘late’ before they notified me of their mistake.
Now I’m wishing I’d just left well-enough alone, and just done the extra payments on my own.
You are not helping
Thursday, April 5th, 2012Me: I need you to move this call to fnX(), because it calls GWT.create, into the view layer, instead of the presenter layer.
Dev: Here, I replaced the call to fnX() with a direct call to GWT.create, still in the presenter layer.
ah, work
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012me: So, this stuff I’m supposed to be testing, it doesn’t seem to actually do anything with permissions…
dev: yeah, we haven’t implemented any of that stuff yet.
me: OK, is there a design for how it will be implemented?
dev: Nope.
Choices
Monday, March 12th, 2012T-mobile says, “pay $200 now, or $320 over the next 6 months”. For a data service that never works, the choice is clear. And they wonder why they are losing the game.
UPDATE: Service cancelled on the tablet, only took a 5 minute call =) I wisely avoided leaving any opening for the retention rep to exploit, in my reasons for cancellation.