Showing posts with label UI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UI. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

On Load Balancing

Six elevators
Serving only 14 floors.
Short waits would be nice.

The elevator algorithm in the building here at work is nothing even -slightly- approaching efficient. I won't even start on how often the "floor beeps" get confused, or how often I hear the elevator whizzing by when I've been waiting forever. With such a high elevator-to-floor ration, I should NOT be having to wait 5 minutes. Srsly.

Friday, January 25, 2008

Office 2007

Hey office Oh Seven?
How many times must I say
DO NOT SHOW ME THIS?

No really. If I
Press CTRL-C twice... EVEN THEN
I do not want it

Yeah, that's right. The fucking "Copy Panel" or whatever the fuck they call it. Has anyone ever given two shits about the last 15 things they copied? Really? Do they care enough that even after explicitly turning it off by clicking "Do not show", "Do not copy behind the scenes", and "Do not make it appear if I press CTRL-C twice" that they still mysteriously want it to show up if I press CTRL-C twice? And if they, in a spirit of spitefulness turn off that option AGAIN, do you think they want it to do THE SAME FUCKING THING THE NEXT TIME THEY OPEN THE PROGRAM?

Do you think that, Office 2007? Do you really think that? Because I really really mean it. I don't care about this feature. I don't want to see it. EVER. Do I need to agree to some more Terms of Service before you'll believe me? Because I will. Just make this damn thing go away!

Thursday, January 24, 2008

More Google Griping

A keyboard shorcut:
'S' to share, how nice! And yet...
's' to star? The Fuck?

To those of you who subscribe to my shares... sorry about the 20 or 30 items that just appeared, many of them quite old. That would be because my habit of just hitting the S key to share an item only works if I'm also holding the fucking SHIFT key. It'd be one thing if there was any indication of what keyboard shortcuts do what, such as underling letters, but there isn't. Or! If the first letter in the phrase did the thing! Like Add Star and Share Item... but again, no. It's s and S. Obviously.