Tuesday, July 19, 2005
(7:41 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Tuesday Hatred 9
I hate it when applications open up separate windows for each document, but then when you click the big X for one of the windows, the entire application shuts down. Word, in which I most often have multiple documents open, is not like this, but strangely, Excel is, and so is Acrobat. I also hate it when programs that behave like Excel and Acrobat have a "parent" icon in the alt-tab line-up, which can often lead to alt-tabbing between two manifestations of the exact same document. This is especially a problem in Acrobat, where it doesn't prompt me to save changed documents (since I can't change them). I also hate how I usually end up working with the taskbar expanded to be twice its normal height, because it was either that or having application windows grouped together, so that I had to switch to, say, Word, then use ctrl-tab to switch among the windows. This alt-tab/ctrl-tab thing is obviously a huge struggle for me, and I'm still trying to come up with a satisfactory solution.I hate it when Firefox opens a separate window or tab as a "target" for downloads that don't open within Firefox -- most often .exe files, but also sometimes .wmv. I hate that I got a plugin that was supposed to prevent that behavior, but obviously it doesn't work. This also happens sometimes with .pdfs, because I have found that Acrobat support within Firefox is so buggy that I set it to open in a new window rather than in a new Firefox tab. I used to hate it when Acrobat opened inside of Firefox and made it so that absolutely none of the shortcut keys worked, so that I had to use the mouse to switch among tabs, rather than using ctrl-tab. But what I hate most of all about Acrobat is that I just can't seem to copy and paste out of Acrobat files -- so what I most often do is keep the Windows calculator running at all times, so that I can type the numbers I need into the calculator (which is small enough that I can still see them) and then paste it over from there.
I hate that when my Google Ads got cancelled because someone was apparently using fraudulent software, I had already reached the $100 mark by non-fraudulent means and almost certainly would have received a check by now. That $100 would have made a really big difference this month -- even though Google claimed in its terms of service that it would only cancel payment for fraudulent clicks, they just wiped out my whole balance. I also hate that when I tried to run a Google search on the page, they wouldn't run the search because unfortunately I don't comply with their terms of service -- I was able to alter the code in order to disconnect it from my now-dead Google Ads account, but it's embarrassing to think that people were getting that message for a while if they ran a site search.
I hate how unreliable Haloscan has been, and I hate how reluctant I am to say that it seems to be over, because as we all know, when we say something prematurely positive, it directly causes the opposite to happen.
Hate away, my dears.
UPDATE: I hate that apparently last night, when I had a "dream" that I was trying to talk to Anthony and got frustrated at failing to make myself understood, it was actually happening in real life. We're talking sleepwalking here.
