Category: Peeves

Things that annoy me in general and in specific.

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    Dear Windows Vista,

    What the everloving what is going on here?

    I’m running a nice fancy powerful almost-new desktop PC, only a couple of running programs, plenty of free CPU cycles and gobs of available memory. And you’re telling me that it’s going to take most of three minutes to extract a ZIP file of less than three megabytes? What is this, the early 1990s?

    Seriously. Eat hot death.

    Yours In Servitude,

    – The Little Grey Duck

    (And it took even longer than the initial dialog display led me to believe. This is insanity. I’m going to install a 3rd-party archive handler and see if I can improve my simple archive extraction times.)

  • It is WORDs. That come beFORE.

    Let’s make this as clear as possible.

    The text you sometimes find before the actual beginning of the book? It’s not called a forward. It’s called a foreword.

    A great many otherwise-intelligent people keep making that mistake, and it keeps driving me crazy. So, stop it, everybody.

    Thank you.