Wednesday, January 19, 2005
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Today, I have decided that I MUST complain about Microsoft's "Notepad" software included with Windows. For those of you who don't know, Notepad is a text-editor. No formatting features, no picture insertion, nothing. That is not the problem. There are a few more bigger issues that need worked out.
1. In the Win98 and Win95 versions of Notepad, one MUST use the mouse to save. The oh-so-standard "Ctrl+S" feature is NOT available.
2. It renames files. When I attempt to make a file for my website, I'll tell it to call the file something like "index.html" or "page2b.php". Unfortunately, Notepad decides that I MEANT to call it "index.html.txt" or "page2b.php.txt". While this feature could come in handy for new users of Windows who forget to put file extensions on their filenames, advanced users HATE this.
I needed to include something in a box like this...
FINAL VERDICT: Microsoft loses with a score of 0 to 1,000,000. Rather than trying again, just include a link to Download.com for me to download a better product than "Notepad".
1. In the Win98 and Win95 versions of Notepad, one MUST use the mouse to save. The oh-so-standard "Ctrl+S" feature is NOT available.
2. It renames files. When I attempt to make a file for my website, I'll tell it to call the file something like "index.html" or "page2b.php". Unfortunately, Notepad decides that I MEANT to call it "index.html.txt" or "page2b.php.txt". While this feature could come in handy for new users of Windows who forget to put file extensions on their filenames, advanced users HATE this.
I needed to include something in a box like this...
FINAL VERDICT: Microsoft loses with a score of 0 to 1,000,000. Rather than trying again, just include a link to Download.com for me to download a better product than "Notepad".
Saturday, January 01, 2005
2005: It happens again
I went months without posting before, and now I'm posting almost twice a month. Why is that? Because I'm bored. So let us begin.
It's that time of the year again. Some of you may have stayed up late partying, whereas others may have forgotten what season it was. But that doesn't change the fact that the new calendar year has begun. While this has no actual significance on anything, a lot of people think they have to make resolutions, thinking that the new year will somehow make it easier for them to improve their character flaws. To them I say: "You are all morons and should never reproduce." Allow me to explain something. Jan 01 was Julius Caesar's birthday. He CHANGED the calendar so that his birthday would mark the beginning of the year. Therefore, Jan 01 does not have any cosmic significance, it just shows some dead dude's cosmic ego.
My topic is NOT New Years, that's just an intro. I am NOT about to go on a tangent.
I guess, then, that horoscopes are also thrown off by my cosmic discovery. At least the monthly and yearly ones. We have no idea when the "true" month begins. Also, why would the planets and stars just happen to work in certain ways and predict certain things based on OUR calendar? I guess that throws out weekly horoscopes, also. And time zones prevent daily horoscopes from being any good. Put simply, horoscopes are a cosmic joke.
I'm listening to music while I write this.
Chain letters. They're fake. The fortune cookie will NOT appear after you forward the email to enough people, and the fact that you don't understand computers well enough to realize that it is impossible will not change it. There is no way of keeping track of email, so Microsoft/Bill Gates/Wal-Mart/The Government/Whatever will NOT donate money to some charity for circulating an email. Bad luck will not result from not sending copies of the snail-mail you receive, as there is no logical connection. LETTERS AND FORWARDING DO NOT HAVE ANY COMPLETELY UNRELATED EFFECT, EVER!
So, are you figuring out how this works, yet?
Okay, here's the last one. Tradition means nothing. It can be fun, but when it's too much of a hassle, just let it go. Unless the bride is bare, nothing bad can come from the groom seeing her before the wedding. Think of any tradition. Unless there's more to it than just tradition for the sake of keeping things the same, tradition can be ignored safely.
Okay, that was the last one. I'm almost done.
My point is, people need to incorporate simple logic into their everyday lives. Don't do or believe things just because people tell you to, do or believe it because it makes sense. It doesn't need to make sense scientifically (we have yet to learn so much that even what's considered to be laws could end up being wrong), just as long as there is SOME logic behind it. While there is no logic in galactic movement causing you to lose your job, there is logic in bowel movement causing it.
While there is no logic in a lot of stuff, there is a "cosmic" amount of logic in the fact that I'm posting this.
It's that time of the year again. Some of you may have stayed up late partying, whereas others may have forgotten what season it was. But that doesn't change the fact that the new calendar year has begun. While this has no actual significance on anything, a lot of people think they have to make resolutions, thinking that the new year will somehow make it easier for them to improve their character flaws. To them I say: "You are all morons and should never reproduce." Allow me to explain something. Jan 01 was Julius Caesar's birthday. He CHANGED the calendar so that his birthday would mark the beginning of the year. Therefore, Jan 01 does not have any cosmic significance, it just shows some dead dude's cosmic ego.
My topic is NOT New Years, that's just an intro. I am NOT about to go on a tangent.
I guess, then, that horoscopes are also thrown off by my cosmic discovery. At least the monthly and yearly ones. We have no idea when the "true" month begins. Also, why would the planets and stars just happen to work in certain ways and predict certain things based on OUR calendar? I guess that throws out weekly horoscopes, also. And time zones prevent daily horoscopes from being any good. Put simply, horoscopes are a cosmic joke.
I'm listening to music while I write this.
Chain letters. They're fake. The fortune cookie will NOT appear after you forward the email to enough people, and the fact that you don't understand computers well enough to realize that it is impossible will not change it. There is no way of keeping track of email, so Microsoft/Bill Gates/Wal-Mart/The Government/Whatever will NOT donate money to some charity for circulating an email. Bad luck will not result from not sending copies of the snail-mail you receive, as there is no logical connection. LETTERS AND FORWARDING DO NOT HAVE ANY COMPLETELY UNRELATED EFFECT, EVER!
So, are you figuring out how this works, yet?
Okay, here's the last one. Tradition means nothing. It can be fun, but when it's too much of a hassle, just let it go. Unless the bride is bare, nothing bad can come from the groom seeing her before the wedding. Think of any tradition. Unless there's more to it than just tradition for the sake of keeping things the same, tradition can be ignored safely.
Okay, that was the last one. I'm almost done.
My point is, people need to incorporate simple logic into their everyday lives. Don't do or believe things just because people tell you to, do or believe it because it makes sense. It doesn't need to make sense scientifically (we have yet to learn so much that even what's considered to be laws could end up being wrong), just as long as there is SOME logic behind it. While there is no logic in galactic movement causing you to lose your job, there is logic in bowel movement causing it.
While there is no logic in a lot of stuff, there is a "cosmic" amount of logic in the fact that I'm posting this.
