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Timely Reminder

23 February, 2010 (03:00) | Rants, peeve | 1 comment

I migrated to the newer Microsoft Office Suite last fall, and it not only did not go particularly well (many things that should have been imported from the old version did not migrate), it’s still haunting me.
I discovered that a monthly task reminder had not “fired” — too late to help me, of course. [...]

Nits to Pick

15 February, 2010 (03:00) | peeve | 2 comments

Blogs and news stories which list the most recent comment first. This makes no sense to me. There are comments on comments, and you need to read these chronologically to make any sense of them.
Blog archives not using previous and next (or the equivalent) in a consistent fashion. On some, [...]

Outsourcing

25 September, 2008 (03:45) | Language, peeve |

Between reading blogs and watching sports on TV over the weekend, I was exposed to a few expressions that are, well, just wrong, dammit!
Walk the talk — no, it’s talk the talk vs walk the walk. The former is easier than the latter. If you walk the talk, aren’t you repeatedly putting your [...]

Hint: It’s Not a Verb

16 August, 2008 (05:24) | History, Language, Tech, peeve | 1 comment

Sat-nav for flappers
Sat-Nav wristwatches have been around since 1920.
OK, the idea of a small chart scrolling on one’s wrist is clever, but the “sat” part of “sat-nav” stands for satellite, as in artificial satellite. What artificial satellites are involved here?
Yes, I have a peeve about using acronyms and abbreviations where one obviously doesn’t know [...]

A Quantum Complaint

29 January, 2008 (12:14) | Physics, Rants, peeve | 1 comment

It’s not a big deal.
By that, I meant that “quantum” does not mean “big.” (This is a peeve of mine. Not so sure it’s a pet peeve. Perhaps a feral peeve?) I ran across a blog entry about the use of quantum that wasn’t wrong as it usually is. (But [...]

 

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