Rants

Dear Mr. Jobs. Please try to make the Finder in OS/X not suck so badly when dealing with mounted FTP sites. Multi-threaded my ass. Multi-tasking my ass. Thanks a bunch. Love, Alan

You know, even though I don’t use windows a huge amount, I’d think that I’d use other programs enough to bump Windows Update off my “most recently used” list in the start menu. Nope, it’s still there. Second from the bottom, but it’s still hanging in there. I’m happy to see yet another Windows Update,

No, not talking about me this time. I’ve been meaning to do a showcase of the idiots who comment on my blog and display some of the random mental giants who visit and leave comments (this for example). This one however got my goat enough to give it it’s own little space here.

In my dream world a wrong phone number call goes something like this: Me: “Hello?” Caller: “Is <random> there?” Me: “Sorry, I think you have the wrong number.” C: “Oh, terribly sorry, have a nice night.” M: “No problem, goodbye.” click Of course, real life is far different… Me: “Hello?” Caller: “HELLO???!!!!” [yes, he sounded

What the hell!?!?!? I try to save a file in MS Word OS/X version called “Content Management System Recommendations.doc” and it pops up a box telling me that “The file name you entered is too long: The file name cannot exceed 31 characters.” No limit like that on file folders, or files saved in textedit,

I’m all for breaking the rules when it makes sense to do so, but while playing with Access I found their method of handling windows, well, pretty stupid. I can see how it sort of make sense, if you’re going to be using the app a lot it sucks to have to CTRL-TAB through windows

If I have to hear that genious british reporter say one more time about how different this two room house is from Saddam’s royal palace I’m going to fucking scream. I’m not going to get into the obvious mention about how it’s pretty obvious that life in general is pretty different when you’re on the

http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2003/11/26.html#a5594

BIOS: definition: Basic Input Output System. This provides the basic instructions for a PC’s hardware, and is coded into the computer’s ROM (or Read Only Memory). The operating system (Windows 98, for instance) and applications access BIOS in order to enhance compatibility. Basic input output system. Why the hell do you need XML and TCP/IP

There was some discussion in the comments of Scoble‘s blog about HTML and email. Someone commented that they were dissapointed with Outlook 2003 because it wouldn’t allow you to set a preference to only ever send plaintext unless it is told to. Robert’s response? “Why?” Sadly this seems to be the Microsoftian (Microsoftie?) response. Not