Category: Entertainment

Working with computers is easy. Working with people working with computers is hard.

All bloggers know that comment spam is an incredible time waster. It used to be that my comment spam involved only tried to promote pornographic and pharmaceutical web sites, and did so in a very explicit manner. Recently, a more pernicious form of comment spam has appeared. This takes the form of a seemingly harmless […]

I had to create a support ticket at Dreamhost. I like their style. Here are a couple of the questions they ask, along with the options available in the pop-down menu: I’m not sure how well these responses work for people whose first language is not English, but I definitely appreciated the effort.

The accidental severing of three undersea cables has led to a massive Internet slowdown in India. What do you think? More answers at http://www.theonion.com/content/node/73678.

This quiz is for the linguists among you. Can you guess the original language of the following product description? See comments for answer (sort of). What offers the Public SyncTool? Escalation inquiry: You will be asked, which data record you would like to use, if both data records (PC and Notebook) were changed. No inadvertent […]

WebHost4Life’s SharePoint hosting architecture seems to mirror that of Mail2Web. Both of these companies allow me to create a SharePoint site in a subdomain of a domain hosted elsewhere, unlike 1&1. Both WebHost4Life and Mail2Web allow me to access my site at a fixed IP address prior to creating an A record in my authoritative […]

The world can’t be a bad place if I can make myself look like this: Now you try!

My spam filtering service is very good, but I still get one or two spams a day. These generally end up in my Junk E-mail box in Outlook. Normally I pay no attention, but this one was so outlandish it made me laugh. Is this guy on a quest to find the most illiterate and […]

Microsoft programmers are responsible for all sorts of incomprehensible, unhelpful error and warning messages. But at least they usually get their spelling and grammar right. Look what I saw today: Microsoft, repeat after me: Don’t choose to loose.

I know Apple gets high marks for style and ergonomics in some quarters, but today I had a Nano freeze on me and I had no bloomin’ idea how to turn it off and on again. Where the hell is the reset button? How do I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete? I tried all the button combinations I […]