Large-screen laptops with their touchpad and keyboard shoved way to the left. Who are the IDIOTS designing these things? It makes me uncomfortable just looking at them. The only people this could possibly be good for is Latent Lefties. You know, the kind that love them some right handed Ten-Key, but still dig using a touchpad pointing device with their left. What? You don't know any? Neither do I. When you design a computer to supposedly sit on someone's lap, it should keep the screen centered in front of you. Similarly, the keyboard should be centered, keeping your hands/arms/shoulders in a somewhat neutral position. I'm not saying you shouldn't try to throw a numeric keypad on a laptop. I love having one on hand, but make the keys slimmer OR SOMETHING, so that I'm not reminded of this nightmare:
Thanks for your "support."- Smartphone Facebook Apps. I don't know which foil hat to wear here, so help me out please. When it comes to my mobile phone, I'm a moderate texter. I subscribe to many twitter and facebook friends' updates and have noticed of late, as more of my friends are switching to smart phones, that it is getting harder to reply to or interact with updates from my friends because the "app" they are using doesn't actually update their "status". I can't reply to or "like" a post via SMS because facebook doesn't support that sort of function. I get a prompt reply from facebook saying that my friend has removed this status, so I can't like or comment on it. Horse-knockers, I say! Who is trying to push me away from using SMS messages? Are we talking about the whole conglomerated smart-phone syndicate, or just the wise-asses that think I would be better served by being just slightly more connected (and billable) to the internet?
- Website Content Summaries. There are a lot of things I like to read on the internet. Some are informational and newsy where I may pick and choose what I want to read, and others are posted by a friend or other acquaintance such that I would not want to miss gaps in their thought-stream. It is at the friends that have chosen to literarily cock-block my usage of an RSS news reader that I have to thumb my nose. Why would you want to limit my reading pleasure in this way? I shouldn't need to go to your website to hear what you have to say, if I have a tool that will allow me to read it wherever I go. You can even throw ads into your feed, so I won't miss out on that part either. When you block the full RSS feed, it makes me think you don't really want me to read it. Is that what you want? Well then FIX it!
- Tweeting ONLY to link somewhere else, and then having the audacity to follow other people. Dweebs, you are useless and unoriginal. There are many of you trolling for more followers with nothing to contribute. Please cease to exist.
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