On superfluous mailings

Email: Save ten bucks!
Sent to old customer list?
I already haz!


My third email this week telling me about a sale on software I already purchased! I do not understand the point!

Internet Radio

Last FM plays nice
With Android, which is nice buuuuuut....
It could use a pause!


Seriously, who makes an internet radio program that works like terrestrial radio? I have Play, Stop and Next. What am I supposed to do if I like the song, but want to watch a youtube video, or go pee, or discuss the flaws of mathematics with coworkers? I'm screwed!

On disappointing freeware

Freeware: hit or miss.
You get just what you pay for.
Sometimes even less.

I don't expect free software to be perfect, but most of the time it seems like nobody even bothered to make sure it worked before publishing it. And why is it that the uninstaller never completely gets rid of it?

On 4-verse soap-boxes

Some definition
of "stuff works" - they'll never be
hardcore dev boxes!

Nevermind little
niggling things like software:
complete lack thereof.

And one button mice?
Not "revolutionary
UI," just a pain.

I can rant all day -
at least dual boot XP
for some appeasement.

On Misinformation

Why do you call me?
I'm not part of app support -
never have nor will.

How did you even
get a hold of my number?
Lisa is baffled ;_;

Somehow my freaking cell phone number has ended up in the support DB for the application I develop for. No idea how. The result is that I keep getting calls from hotel managers asking me where to find things and wanting to know why they can't log in. Sooo very confused.

I didn't want to save that anyway...

Oh, Test Director!
I mean Quality Center...
new name, but no change.

Copious lockups,
random eating of my text -
makes me want to scream.

Is it ironic that a defect-tracking software has so many defects of its own?