Wed, 17 Nov 2010
Slerm Phlogging Script
I've added some more updates to my version of the excellent 'germ' phlogging script as created by wt@sdf, and renamed it 'slerm' to differentiate it. The main change from the previous version is the ability to receive email alerts on post comments.
More details and links below, as well as a couple of helper utilities.
posted at: 10:22 | path: / | permalink |
Tue, 16 Nov 2010
Highly Annoying Habits of Non-Geeks
Posted without comment, annoying habits of the non-geek:
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'Attaching' anything to an email by:
- Pasting into a word/excel/powerpoint and sending you the word/excel powerpoint doc as an attachment
- Worse, pasting into a word doc and converting to a PDF, then sending you the PDF
- Successfully attaching an actual image, but it's a 20MB BMP
- Sending blank emails with only a TNEF attachment
- Replying to an earlier email of yours from two months ago, but on a completely new subject.
- Top-posting
- HTML emails, especially those with no text component
- Sending outlines via email where the various outline levels are only delineated by font size/color/style
- Sending project specs as 18 pages of scanned, hand-written notes in PDF format
- Sending 132 images via email, either as one huge zipfile, or individual attachments
- Further, said zipfile contains 132 images and no containing directory
- Filenames with spaces AND/OR ALL CAPITAL LETTERS
- Referring you to Facebook for anything
- Asking for help in the least precise way possible 'Help, my internet is down!', also, see below.
- Conflating Google/Facebook/web browser/email client with the internet
- Referring to filetypes by brand names "Then the internet said I needed Adobe before I could access my bank."
posted at: 16:10 | path: / | permalink | annoyances, geek, humor, wtf