Software and web annoyances

I don’t mean to brag but I have ALOT of domain names. A. LOT. many of them at some point in my life have been used as email redirects - this is why when I illegally get put on someone douchebag mailing list about their rapey looking burlesque club - and the only way to get off their list it to reply with ‘unsubscribe’ in the title I want to go on a killing spree. But even WORSE is when they put you on their gaybag BCC list so I can’t even see which one of my 8 email addresses they have sent their pointless filth to.

You see, when I hit ‘reply’ the email address your going to see is a lot different to the one I used when I signed your mailing list at the height of some drug fueled ecstasy. So this system does. not. work. Please please can everyone start using managed mailing list software - OPT IN managed email software. Also if someone emails you, this does not mean they want to be on your dreary mailing list unless they say they want to be on your mailing list, unless that is the reason they are emailing you.

Since when did ‘do you want Firefox to remember this password?’ become a rhetorical question?

What I’m saying is it doesn’t remember passwords.

Of course it does, why wouldn’t it?

EVERY time I log into AOL I get pinged with a new message “Oh who could it be?” I think - is it my friend Paul from New York, perhaps it’s one of the guys from work - probably telling me to get to bed *chuckle* - my excitement soon turns to disgust as it dawns on me it’s my ol’ friend ‘AOL System Message’ gleefully notifying me of how I am logged in in 2 places and would I like to close the other session. I. DON’T. CARE. Please stop telling me about this. There may be some way of turning off this pointless notification in the AOL client but I won’t let any of their bastard software near my machine and neither iChat or Pidgin has a way to shut off this noise.

What is all this bloody net-nannying about passwords & security knocking about? JEESUS. ‘Your password must contain at least 8 characters long and contain 1 number’ I mean who on earth is going to guess my password is peniscolada, is it really going to be that much more difficult for them to guess p3niscolada in THREE ATTEMPTS. Ohh let’s see - ‘password’ - damn! ‘passw0rd’ - damn she’s good.. ‘peniscolada’ ACCESS GRANTED ! ftw! i suppose this all harks back to the days of those automated code breakers that scan through the dictionary but everything is CAPTCHA now, and anyway - if you really are stupid enough to chose a bloody easy password then you deserve to have your computer used as pornography server by russian hackers - and let that be a lesson to you. Best way to learn I say.

I am not kidding right:

username: leperisland
name: Caroline Clifford
password: p3niscolada
error: ‘password must not be too similar to username or full name’. I’m sorry Mrs Penis - your password is a terrible security risk.

And this was just for a del.icio.us account. Ohh no, please don’t hack into my social bookmarking site and say I like lolcatz when really I think its not that good. MY BOOKMARKS ARE MY IDENTITY!

This really has 2 layers of annoyance.

1. I have a user defined swatch library (palette) that I use on EVERY SINGLE BLOG I do and yet Illustrator has decided in its infinite wisdom that this is not worthy of the exclusive user defined swatch library list - however the wow and pizazz that is my brush library waltzed straight past the bouncers that guard the user defined brush library. I hate to play the race card, but my swatch library is coloured.

2. OK so I’ve come to terms with the fact my swatch library will never be welcomed at the user defined swatch library country club, so then why oh why must I always point the file browser back to my art folder again and again. I have actually had to MOVE my swatch file into the illustrator folder. Oh yeah Illustrator, no I totally don’t want to use my art folder like I have been every day for the last 8 years, you’re right - all my stuff is totally in the illustrator folder now - yup absolutely, good guess.

I have google reader watcher for firefox so when I have any new RSS items I know about it right away. Thing is there’s always at least a 5 minute delay between google reader detecting a new item and actually being able to read that item. Damnit I want my news NOW! Stupid having to wait.

Preview doesn’t preview a god darn thing. On my other hosted blog it previews the text but never the images. Way to test you guys!

Why have I been looking at the same 8 ‘recent items’ for the last 3 weeks? Why is that - why would I want that?