Okay, Microsoft have officially gone too far now. That’s my C drive, it’s where I put my stuff. It’s mine. It is not, has never been and should never be a Windows system folder. Not to mention the fact that hiding files like this does not make the interface easier to use, it just introduces another mode that confuses users and makes users panic because they’re in some cryptic part of the OS that they shouldn’t be in. Fix the damn OS so it’s not so easy to inadvertantly break – don’t just hide the entire hard drive from the user.

Which OS are You?

Brian McCallister got me started on this. Apparently he’s slackware. I’m Palm and everything it says is so true it’s scary.

Update: I have to point out this:

if you ended up with GNU/HURD it means you didn’t answer all the questions.

While reading this article about The Producers, I noticed the following couple of paragraphs:

One of the producers of The Producers, John Frost, says they particularly wanted someone for the role of Max Bialystock, who had a vaudeville or musical background. “Unfortunately, we don’t breed that style of actors any more and we were very lucky with Reg Livermore in getting him for this role, because Reg is probably the last of that breed.” So what’s happened to all the talented musical actors? Have they all gone into television careers? I know Neighbours has a habit of snapping them up – the whole show is basically a stepping stone to move between musicals or pantomimes and a pop music career. It’s certainly quite true that a huge number of very talented stage actors are winding up in TV these days, it’s a shame it appears to be at the expense of the musicals. Fortunately, I haven’t seen the entertaining Simon Gallagher on TV other than in screening of musical productions and surely we can forgive Jon English for All Together Now by now right? Anyway, go out and see a musical – support this wonderful art form (but winge and moan suitably about the high ticket prices too). It would be such a shame to loose this art form.

And the RAM is taketh away again… My shiny new RAM arrived today. Unfortunately it appears to be the emporer’s RAM as it looks real, feels real, I assume it tastes real, but when you put it in my laptop Apple System Profiler reports the slot as completely empty. Needless to say, it’s being sent back. Unfortunately, since it came from Melbourne the replacement process will probably take most of next week. Sigh. I swear my computer was faster with the dead RAM stick in too.

I found the missing comment emails I referred to earlier. I have a spam filter on my email and it works wonders apparently. Probably should put in an exception for stuff that comes from the blog…..

Or not…. Anyway, my point was – why does everyone else get to play with GMail and I don’t? Bah, Ghumbug.

You know, Verdana is the kind of font that really grows on you. My boss has been madly changing every CSS file he sees to use “Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif” for the past month or so and considering that the content of those files (only default templates) are copied into the users document, it’s been a rather annoying obsession. I’ve got to admit though, I’m kind of getting to like it as you might note from the recent change to “Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif” around here.

Apparently, fears of an HIV epidemic are putting the breaks on porn production in the US for the next 2 months. Does this mean the spam will stop for 2 months too? On a side note, I’m almost afraid of what the “The Google Says” box over there on the right is going to contain for this entry….

For some reason my email notifications for comments have stopped working or at least are intermittent. While I wasn’t watching, a whole heap of spam comments snuck onto this blog. I’ve now installed MT-Blacklist to see if that can fix the problem (it certainly seems to have cleaned out the existing comments nicely). If not, I’ll be disabling comment entirely. It’s such a shame greedy, selfish people have to go and make life difficult for everyone. Let me make it very clear: I will most definitely not be buying my penis enlargement products from any of the company’s who spammed my blog. Hmm, I’m not sure that’s really going to make much difference to them….

The RAM is a coming, oh yeah…. Ordered another 512Mb of RAM for my shiny new powerbook (it currently has 256Mb). Strangely overnight delivery was $2 cheaper than standard delivery. So I should get a happy little package sometime tomorrow. Then I’ll really see what this little baby can do.

aka: Why people think Americans have no concept of the world outside the USA. Sometimes on this big intarweb thingy, we come into contact with people from different countries and they might have different ways of expressing things or even (shock horror), spelling things. Witness this slashdot posting (which has no particularly worthwhile content but a non-american spelling of “gaol”). Note the flamewar that ensues. The first response (regarding the nineteenth century wanting it’s spelling back) is naive yet funny. My response was pointed and uncalled for but providing a at least somewhat humorous correction. Then it all went downhill. How is it that Americans manage to so consistently portray this image of absolute ignorance towards anyone outside their own country (and no I don’t just mean on slashdot…)? It’s like all the support queries that come in at work after people discover we’re in Australia – they all start with “Good day mate!”. How is it that these people can’t learn to spell “Good day” in Australian properly (G’Day)? And don’t even get me started on American actors trying to do Australian accents…. Now if you’ll excuse me I’ve got to go wrestle a crocodile or two… Crikey!

Since my new laptop has bluetooth builtin, I’ve been using my MS bluetooth mouse a lot more. The extra buttons on the side are set up as the Expos� triggers and'7;m now completely addicted to using them. I honestly never thought anything would be able to replace my good old faithful, “Hide Application” method. Where I once used to have a completely clean screen, devoid of all windows but the ones I was specifically working on – I never have absolute chaos with every window I might ever need open. I can happily flick through them with just a twitch of the thumb and a flick of the wrist. Fabulous!