In the process now of re-installing Windows following an inconveniently timed hard drive crash, just mopping up…
There is a right way and a wrong way to ‘name’ your website’s home page. When I make a bookmark or favorite of it I want it to say “what it is” FIRST (alphabetically).
Right way: www.quartertothree.com/fp/ = “Quarter to Three”
Right way: espn.go.com = “ESPN - The Worldwide Leader in Sports”
Right way: www.fitocracy.com/home/ = “Fitocracy - Home”
I do NOT want a sentence about your home page, I do NOT want added descriptions unless they come afterward and I do NOT need it to start with words like “Home” or “Welcome”. GAH!
Wrong way: www.grantland.com = “Sports and Pop Culture from Bill Simmons and our rotating cast of writers - Grantland”
Wrong way: www.redbox.com = “Rent Movies Online - DVDs, Blu-Ray™ & Games | Movie Rentals at Redbox”
Wrong way: www.sdge.com = “Home | San Diego Gas & Electric”
sinnick
2703
That’s a SEO thing. I hate it too.
Shall I school you guys? ;-)
Omniscia
2707
It’s a cute film. Not one of Woody’s best, in my opinion, and certainly not worth raving about, but definitely better than almost anything else he’s done over the last decade or so. ________ Wilson (I can’t tell them apart) is too pretty to be a passable stand-in for the Woodman, though.
For some reason I really get annoyed at posters who consistently dump a superfluous image in their posts. Teiman, Rachel Brown, Foxstab – sorry guys, I can’t stand it.
What’s weird is I usually love the deadpan joke posts that are nothing but an image, assuming it’s from someone who’s effective at it. It’s the text plus useless image that makes me nerd rage.
WarrenM
2709
Smart phone zombies. People who, if they aren’t actively engaged in a conversation or task, are constantly staring into their phones and slowly flicking their thumbs. It becomes their default state.
I bet we see a wide spread problem in 20 years from people with smart phone neck injuries. “Well, I looked down at my phone for 6 hours a day for 20 years, so…”
jason
2710
“Why are you always looking at your phone?”
“Because it’s more interesting than you.”
Seriously, though, if I didn’t need a smart phone for work, I probably would have whatever the cheapest most solid “it only makes phone calls” phones they make. Sadly, though, the smart phone zombies are probably flicking their way through twitter and other social media, because as if tabloids weren’t enough for celebrity-addition, now you can follow them and see what they are eating when they are eating it!
WarrenM
2711
It honestly feels like it’s becoming an addiction. People can’t disconnect from their email. They just can’t.
Damn fucking security questions that assume we’re all 21 and therefore trivial shit from well before we were grown is somehow important enough to us to hold in perpetuity to maintain access to our accounts. I just had to answer three security questions for Apple, but I couldn’t just type in my own questions to answer. Nooooooo. Instead I had to pick from their contrived dipshit list. No, I have no clue who my first teacher was, sorry. Also I don’t remember the model of my first car (It was a hand-me-down from my parents… so some unmemorable sedan). City where I was first kissed? WTF, am I a 14 year old girl? Really?
And those are the -questions- I can even remember. There was probably some other stupid bullshit ones like my favorite sports team or my preferred brand of tennis shoes or something else that has exactly zero resonance with me. Maybe I’m just odd but none of these were significant enough events in my life that I believe they’ll crowd out the everpresent flow of the here and now when I eventually muck up my password and they ask me one of those asinine questions to prove I am me.
I guess the idea is to keep the account safe by picking minutia so obscure that even I can’t remember it, so there’s no way someone else is going to guess it.
Amen to this. I can’t remember when I’ve found security questions so … precious. Or infuriating.
RichVR
2714
Agreed. I have a list of answers to these questions that I use. The answer has nothing to do with the question but it works for me.
Just answer every security question, no matter the question, with “fuckingthatchicken” or something similar and you’ll never sweat out a security question again. Bonus, if anyone at Apple or whereever actually ever looks at your questions/answers they’ll have a laugh.
jason
2716
“Where did you have your first kiss?”
The Enchantment Under the Sea dance.
I have to admit, when I’m forced to set up questions that I will be asked over the phone to verify my identity, and they allow me to write my own question, I always make the question embarrassing or silly to ask. “Who’s tha masta?” “Sho’nuff!”
I just email myself all the questions / answers.
WHERE’S YOUR SECURITY NOW, APPLE?
That was a quality nerdrant, mouselock.
This. It appears to be infecting more people as time goes by. Rage.
Funny that. I was corrected, and learned to used it properly, on this very forum.
