We have covered this before, right? I am pretty sure that we have.
One of my biggest annoyances is getting asked for my opinion or assitance, only to have that opinion or assistance questioned or not taken. Made even more super-extra-hyper annoying when I invest a sizable chunk of my day to the endeavor. Sizeable chunk here would be 10 minutes or more.
Instead of laying down a huge rant this time, I thought instead of sharing a few suggestions to assist you in wasting less of my, or anyone else’, time.
If you have run through any of the options that do not require my interaction and are still stuck, then repeat steps 1-5 above one more time. Still stuck?
Whoa there turbo. Don’t go all question askin’ on me yet. Before you do, take a minute to think about the possible answer you are going to get from your askee. Do you think you will like the answer? Do you think you will take the advice? Or, will you ask the question, question the answer and do what you first thought you would anyway?
If you are 90% sure you will take the advice, then go ahead and ask.
If, however, your mission is to be a douche bag and ignore or question any advice given by your askee, then keep it to yourself.
Accountability. I think it’s very easy. But that’s where I am, yet again, wrong. It’s also the main topic of this weeks wtf video hour. Hidden after the jump for a reason, this one isn’t terribly safe for work.
I’m trying to get some work done. The last bit of a project that is turning out to be larger than I thought (again) and I’m doing for about 100% less than I should be (again). It’s cool, but I’m having to stop and tell you all something right now.
I am done with the iPhone.
Did you see the period? Did you see the word done? This is to serve as your official notice that I will not listen to anything anyone says about the iPhone. I will no longer read posts that contain the word iPhone in them. I will no longer listen to podcasts that spend too much time on the iPhone. I’m going to stop following people on twitter that talk about the iPhone too much. After this post, I will no longer use the term iPhone on my blog or any site I work on unless I am paid to do so.
If all I had to listen to or read about was how awesome the phone is, then I probably wouldn’t be too upset. But that’s not all.
It’s the people that complain about it. That jailbreak it. That, for all intensive purposes, hate it. Yet they still carry the damned thing even though they get bad signal or have to jailbreak it to work the way they need it to, or have more problems than should be allowed by law. I don’t care.
I’m done. You can comment here about iPhones one last time. Go ahead, get it out of your system. After that, I’m done.
I’m probably going to switch back to Windows too, but that’s for another post.
I posted something like this over at pressd yesterday and, frankly, I’m astounded.
Why are you people still trying to support software that is almost 10 years old?
By supporting it, you are slowing down the migration to something better, safer and more stable. Whether its IE7 on XP/Vista or getting those last Win2K folks to migrate to Firefox, you are, in effect, encouraging people to not update.
I’m not sure when IE6 goes EOL, but it can’t happen soon enough.
As I’ve mentioned, I have pretty much already stopped supporting it. This is primarily because I don’t have anywhere to run it.
If you are stuck on IE6 (still?) for any reason, especially if it’s at your work place, it’s really time to start bugging the system admins to upgrade. Really. And, if you are stuck on Win2K, then it’s seriously time to start thinking about moving up to XP. If that’s not possible, then someone at your organization needs to research Firefox for your everyday browsing.
I know those .net guys need components in IE6 for their stuff to work, but that doesn’t mean you have to be stuck with it for browsing.
Ok ok ok already. I know I am the only person on the planet to not have an iPhone or iPod touch now. That might be a big part of my annoyance.
You see, just about everything I read anymore has the word iPhone in it. Post after post after post after mother f’ing post is about the iPhone. Testing a new app in the iPhone or just doing something that is tagged uploaded/posted/tested/lovingly created on my iPhone.
It’s annoying. I know y’all have a brand new shiny toy to play with, so I’ll try to be understanding. But honest to robot ninjas gang if it keeps up much longer it’s going to be a whole lot easier to go through my feeds every morning, and my iPod will be practically devoid of podcasts.
It’s a cool device to be sure. I’ll give you that. Just hurry up and get used to it already won’t you? I’m honestly tired of hearing about it.
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