More oncall fun
Monday was a doozy of a day and the fun continued yesterday. First, the pager went off about 5 times during a meeting. Then when someone commented on it after the meeting, I jokingly pretended to give an OfficeSpace-style...
Category: Rants
English muffin rant
I love Thomas's English Muffins. I admit it, I can't get enough of those nooks and crannys, but why can't they just split the darn things in half? They're already sort of half-split with a fork or something - can't they finish...
Video blogging
Google is getting into video blogging. Oh great. We went from: crappy blogs -> crappy podcasts -> crappy video With each step, we move to something that needs more professionalism to be good, is more difficult to search, and...
accretive design => headaches
Somebody summed up my thoughts succintly today about a particular piece of software that I had been playing with: "accretive design => headaches". He also pointed out that "accretive design" is an oxymoron, which I also think...
I hate sites that break the Back button
One of the most irritating things a web site can do is to break the expected behavior of the Back button in my browser. So by using inappropriate caching settings, a site can make it so that the Back button refetches content,...