OddThinking

My recent entry condemning unresponsive applications took me a long time to write. I knew I was frustrated with unexpected software slowness, but I couldn’t put my finger on why.

I realise now that I was confounding three separate problems: Unresponsiveness, Unexpected CPU Hogs and Outstaying Their Welcome.

Over the past 12 months, I have been getting more and more frustrated at how slow my machine sometimes gets. It has taken me a while to pin-point what my objection is.

Today I found the words.

I am as mad as hell about having a machine using only 10% CPU and 10% RAM being too busy to refresh its windows, and I’m not going to take it any more!

In which I continue to bitch about the Samsung D600 – but particularly about the PC calendar synching software that is bundled with it.

I am scared of people who wear clown noses.

Please understand why I would rather just give a donation than buy a nose on Red Nose Day. It is in support of a worthy charity, but leaves me shuddering slightly all day.

I found an iPod Shuffle last weekend. Just laying on the grass. Cool.

All timezone applications require you to specify what city you are in. I’ve never understood why you select the city rather than the state, province or country.

To: All of the airline passengers of the world.
Re: Baggage Collection, Process Clarification

Dear Fellow Passenger,

The following instruction is simple, and should be carried out with immediate effect.

A review of the Samsung D600 that focuses on things that Samsung doesn’t tell you.

Both the Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 developers gave some thought to people like me. They realised their weird hybrids were going to confuse me, and they warn me that I am being stupid…

Thanks very much for the thought, guys… but….

When read in Outlook, emails sent from WordPress are formatted poorly. I finally have a hypothesis to explain this behaviour.