Things i hate
To my chain letter loving “friends”
Chain letters are not new, they exist for a long time, even before computers were invented. They had a specific target audience and didn’t really bothered that many people. But now when every monkey has a computer and has access to Facebook or an IM application they’re starting to become annoying. Just few minutes ago [...]
Why the internet isn’t a safe source of information
Because there are people out there writing articles like this. Lacking any kind of logic and mixing apples with oranges, the autor does a very poor job of showing the public why Ruby may be better then PHP. Let’s see my ideas about his rants 1) Human-readable code – this mostly depends on developers, as [...]
About iPad and the army of mindless drones
From time to time we see how a product is marketed as something unique, something revolutionary. An expectation for the product is created with careful selection of information that is allowed to leak into the media. People read about the product, they write about the product. A product that doesn’t even hit the stores. But [...]
How to turn off Google Buzz
Google Buzz arrived in our Gmail accounts this week. I must say i’m not a fan of this thing. I like Gmail because it has a fairly good spam filter and because i can easily filter and categorize my mail. My email is very important to me so i like to keep it organized and [...]
Facebook and Farmville. Give me a break
I would like to see all those people who send me Farmville gift requests working one week at a farm! I bet they wouldn’t like farming so interesting anymore. When you have to work all day long on the crop fields or have to clean the crap of the farm animals (btw farmville fans … [...]
Yahoo just lost a friend
Yahoo Messenger is the IM software i use most often, not that i really like it but here everyone is using it. So if i want to talk to someone i have to use it. Two days ago it asked me if i want it to automatically update itself. I said why not, lets make [...]
How to make a brand hated, with newsletters
The newsletter is a good marketing and promotional tool. If used correctly. If not it can lead to adverse effects, like a deep disgust to your brand from the users part. Thats the result of tricking users to subscribe to your newsletter, if you abuse sending newsletters (send many) and provide no means for the [...]
The most annoying website plugin
Some people believe that they can add value to their site just by adding plugins to the page that disturbs the users. For example a plugin provided by snap.com which displays a snapshot of the link you are hovering. For me this is the most disturbing thing that happens when i’m browsing. I frequently hover [...]
