Tag Archives: rant

Every day I get a bunch of application invitations on Facebook to join some new crazy little thing. There is a septillion of apps on facebook, and the funny thing is that half of them are the same exact thing, … Continue reading →

I used to be a happy subscriber to the good old analog cable from Comcast. I would simply plug my TV into the coax cable coming out of the wall and that would give me a bit under a hundred … Continue reading →

I noticed that a lot of people has this odd idea in their heads that the technology moves so fast we can barely keep up. The other day I was talking to someone who told me that he would never … Continue reading →

Here is another pet peeve of mine: artificially created ammunition scarcity in FPS games. It is a gameplay element a bit similar to the insurmountable waist height fence syndrome with respect to prevalence, annoyance factor and overall goal. What am … Continue reading →

I find it very odd when websites put strange restrictions on what your password can be. I keep noticing it because I tend to use long passwords or passphrases with spaces and special characters in them whenever I can. Some … Continue reading →

I noticed something interesting recently. Or rather I used to see this all the time when working with students and people around the office, but I never really understood what was going on. Now it finally clicked. Many users are … Continue reading →

I’m horrified by how many people do not even consider backing up their data on a regular basis as something they could do. Someone begs me for free tech support almost every day and I get asked about all kinds … Continue reading →

Every time I call Dell (and I do call them quite often) about a problematic laptop I feel like they follow a call flowchart that looks something like this: If the machine doesn’t boot, they will give you a new … Continue reading →

In the good old days of arcade games clearing the final stage was usually an accomplishment that you could brag about to your friends. The games were made impossibly difficult in order to make you put more quarters into the … Continue reading →

I came back home yesterday to find out that my cable was down. This meant no TV, and no internet until Saturday. Yup, you heard it! Saturday! Why? Because Shitcast Cable does not have any openings tomorrow and generally they … Continue reading →

I wonder when will the general public finally figure out that someone with a degree in Computer Science is not a computer technician. The fact that I can and will fix b0rken computers as a personal favor for close friends … Continue reading →

Let me paint you a story here. Imagine it’s 1944, D-Day +5 or +6 – you lost count by now. You were dropped somewhere in the middle of the France along with your paratrooper unit. Or at least that was … Continue reading →

I present to you what I call the GTFO UI Design Philosophy. There are many books written on designing good user interfaces, appropriate methodologies, approaches and techniques. People talk about different UI paradigms, styles and etc. To me UI design … Continue reading →

Apparently some adjuncts teaching CMPT-109 are telling students to create their web pages on Geocities. I’m sorry, but WTF? I didn’t even know that geocities even existed. Sure, they were a big contender back in the midst of .com boom, … Continue reading →

I’ve been getting hit by hot linking pretty hard lately. If the site has been slow and unresponsive lately, it might have been because of that. Apparently someone has been using some of the images hosted here in their post … Continue reading →

I love Google Reader. Especially now, after they added the long lost search feature and taught it to count to a thousand. It is awesomer (yes, awesomer is a word, and if you don’t like that GTFO) than ever, but … Continue reading →

I hate blackboard. I really, really hate blackboard. But it’s better than nothing. Anyone else has this sort of love/hate relationship with the world’s worst course management system? What is pissing me off about Blackboard today? It’s the grade book … Continue reading →

As you may or may not know, Facebook removed it’s course tracking application at the beginning of August. Apparently this was done in order to make more room for home-grown facebook apps. I didn’t notice it until yesterday when I … Continue reading →

I uploaded some new images to Flickr today and I saw this: Apparently Flickr now only displays your most recent 200 images. The rest of them gets tossed into some sort of limbo, until you pay up. Did they always … Continue reading →

You doubtlessly heard about the GTK# Ribbon implementation by now. If not, here is the scoop: someone develops a GTK widget using Mono. Is this awesome? Y/N Personally I think this is a bad idea for several reasons. Firstly, we … Continue reading →

Here is my pet peeve: stupid emails signatures. How do you know if your emails signature is stupid? I will explain below. First of all, here is what a non-stupid, useful email signature should look like. For unprofessional email it … Continue reading →

Here is a little rant, about a pet-peeve of mine. Those of the readers here who own windows boxen and indulge in the habit of PC gaming will probably be able to relate. By convention most software on windows gets … Continue reading →

Tumblr is giving me a headache today. Whenever I try to upload an image I get this lovely message: I get it with both the bookmarklet and a manual upload form. Posting text entries, chat quotes and etc still works … Continue reading →

Don’t you just love these kinds of conversations. I pick up the phone and I hear this: User: “I’m having a problem. I knocked off the computer and now the dell things comes up…” Working at a small accounting company … Continue reading →

Comcast saga continues. I thought this shit was over, but I was wrong. We haven’t had any issues with their service for months and all of a sudden we are back to square one. Since last Monday the connection has … Continue reading →