Archive for the ‘Annoying’ Category
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Unfortunately, many websites that collect email addresses do so without your best wishes in mind. Case and point: I decided to help meetup.com this evening by clicking on one of their sponsored ads. Because of the way Google AdWords/AdSense works, the ad hoster may not get any revenue ...
Posted in Ads, Annoying, Depressing, Ridiculous, Software, Web Development | 4 Comments »
Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Dictionary.com defines dominate in the following ways:
1) to rule over; govern; control.
2) to tower above; overlook; overshadow
As I was racing today, I owned one of the longer races by completing it in 5:17. The "time to beat" in order to gain domination status was 5:38. It seems to ...
Posted in Annoying, Bugs, Depressing, Entertainment, Gaming, Programming, Ridiculous, Software, Sports | No Comments »
Monday, October 20th, 2008
Me too.
While writing a JavaScript countdown timer the other day I ran into a very peculiar issue. Every time I refreshed the page, the countdown had 0 hours, 59 minutes, and 59 seconds remaining, regardless of the current time, but it had the correct number of days.
To set the ...
Posted in Annoying, Bugs, Depressing, JavaScript, Programming, Ridiculous, Web Development | No Comments »
Sunday, September 28th, 2008
I decided to give Google Chrome another chance today, hoping there would be an update to fix the scrolling issue I previously discovered.
The following steps produce the following error message—if you can call it that.
Using Google Chrome, navigate to http://www.google.com/chrome/
Click "Download Google ...
Posted in Annoying, Bugs, Depressing, Google, IT, Programming, Software, Technology, Web Development | No Comments »
Monday, September 8th, 2008
After much enthusiasm from the geeks at work about Google's new browser, Chrome, I decided to give it a shot. So far I'm impressed and depressed. Chrome's speed is almost unrivaled. Unfortunately, one of the most important features to me, scrolling, does not work properly.
I have a ...
Posted in Annoying, Bugs, Depressing, Google, IT, Reviews, Ridiculous, Software, Web Development | 11 Comments »
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Kara and I currently have GEICO insurance, but after I saw this Mrs. Butter-worth commercial today I am seriously considering switching.
This must be one of the world's worst commercials.No related posts.
Posted in Ads, Annoying, Depressing, Ridiculous | 2 Comments »
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
What? Creating a new new isn't useful to you, either?
Microsoft...after over 15 years of GUI OSs I would expect better from you. Guess I'm just insane to keep buying your software time after time and expecting different results.
No related posts.
Posted in Annoying, Depressing, IT, Microsoft Vista, Programming, Ridiculous, Software, Technology | No Comments »
Sunday, July 20th, 2008
I have a Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop with Windows Vista. From day one I've had problems using Windows Explorer to navigate the contents. Anytime I double-click on the drive it tells me to format the disc and asks for the disc label even if there is content on ...
Posted in Annoying, Customer Service, Depressing, IT, Ridiculous, Software, Technology | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
I upgraded my laptop hard drive from 160GB to 200GB. In the process I was left with a chunk of 40GB of unallocated space. For the past 4 months I've ignored this space because Windows Vista's built-in partition manager couldn't do anything with it due to Dell's crazy ...
Posted in Amazing, Annoying, Depressing, DIY, IT, Programming, Reviews, Ridiculous, Software | No Comments »
Monday, July 7th, 2008
So I'm trying to debug my PHP script and the error stays the same no matter what I add to the end. Hmm...let me check the PHP manual for trigger_error.
It turns out that trigger_error automatically truncates messages to 1024 characters. That's not very helpful!
Source: PHP Manual - trigger_error()No ...
Posted in Annoying, Depressing, PHP, Programming, Ridiculous | No Comments »
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