07 Mar 2006
Steve writes in with the following gem after my little jibe at him about using a DVD player for CD-audio playback:
I worked with someone the other day who tried to use a DVD player for audio CDs at a show and I made them drive back to the warehouse and pick up a real CD player on the spot.
It’s just not good enough. Their insides and processing isn’t suited to reading and decoding CD audio, and they DO sound different (in a worse way).
*giggles*
06 Mar 2006
Consisting solely of the most BORING website possible. Flash animations and pictures of blinking servers are an automatic discriminator. Give me more mudanity (hence reliability + not template sites by myriad resellers), damn it!
03 Mar 2006
Arguably the bane of my existence (alongside JPEG logos and Home & Away DVD-cover design), Microsoft Word’s insistence on opening crap Outlook feeds it in reading-layout can in fact be disabled. There’s an Office Assistance article on how to do this.
I hate it because it effectively presumes no-one writes documents anymore. Undermining MS Office’s awesome collaboration features (I’m being serious), etc. Not that I ever write anything in MS Office myself, of course (except for proofing stuff other people send) — but still, it bugs me. Especially the way things wrap differently, copy differently, etc. Yuck.
01 Mar 2006
I think this table is nearly right. I parsed it manually with search+replace from tag-soup whilst rather tired…
01 Mar 2006
I used to enjoy them. Now I just enjoy the idea of them.
– Em Priestley