I’ve been using Google Docs quite a bit lately. It’s starting to grate on me a little.
If you are particular about how things look, you almost have to hack the HTML version. Setting styles on text sometimes works, clearing formatting sometimes works, etc.
You’ll get in nested HTML tag hell pretty quickly just by doing basic text formatting — headings, bold, italics and so forth.
Don’t get me started on tables. They’re even worse.
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I’m a fairly content AT&T DSL subscriber. I’ve also been a loyal AVG Antivirus user since my last nightmare with Norton Antivirus 2004. It turned out to be a chipset incompatibility with my model of Dell Dimension 4100 that caused the never-ending cycle of BSODs.
Old news.
I came downstairs to the computer the other morning to find an AVG ad on my screen. Grrrr. Any program installed on my machine that throws ads up on the screen is gonna to get uninstalled.
My co-workers kept raving about the Symantec AV that comes free with AT&T DSL. I don’t know what I was thinking, but I thought I would give it a spin.
Stupid move.
I should have stopped when it required that I use IE instead of Firefox. I had to set IE to my default browser. The agony.
An hour and a half later, I’m beating my head against the brick wall of crap software that is Symantec Antivirus. Here’s the lovely error message:
Problem is: There wasn’t a previous install or uninstall to be completed. I did everything they told me. I clicked here to resolve. It didn’t. I uninstalled AVG, Windows Defender, disabled my Windows Firewall, manually deleted my Temp files, etc, etc, etc, ad nauseum. Four restarts later, I’m ranting right here.
Check out these moves:
Check, check, check and check. Uninstall. Yes, I’m sure.
Downloading the Norton Removal Tool. Check.
Running…
Ahhhh…Freedom.
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Makes me throw up in my mouth a little.
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Looks like Dial wants you to buy less soap, literally.
I noticed the same thing with Kingsford charcoal a while back. They were decent enough to post somewhat believable scientific reasoning on their website.
Same thing with Tires Plus (no links for crappy companies), recently. We bought two new tires after a scary blow out up in MN. Their literature says “Free lifetime tire balancing.” Is it free? No, apparently we didn’t purchase the “Premium wheel balance.” How is that free again? Too bad the marketing isn’t true. Tires Plus won’t have to worry about me being a lifetime customer.
Yes, I really did want to explain to my 11 year-old daughter that sometimes companies use vague and deceptive marketing to up-sell you on something.
/rant
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We all camped out at the annual Blue Springs Fall Fun Fest parade this morning…
Lame.
I’ve seen parades that were much better — in towns that are a small fraction of the size of Blue Springs.
Here are 10 things that I would change about the parade in Blue Springs:
- I know we have a history of good gymnasts that train(ed) in Blue Springs, but come on, 5 mobs of obnoxious dance troupes? Why?
- A middle school entry with no float and just a gang of kids? What’s up with that?
- Where are the Shriners? Combines, mini-cars, go-carts, motorcycles — they’ve got to be there. Not just one group either.
- The parade themes are lame — The Wild World of Sports?? I think I saw about two floats that even even made an attempt. I think some enforcement is required.
- No horses? C’mon. Gotta have lots of animals.
- More bicycles and skateboards. A freestyle bike act would be sweet.
- I love the John Deere tractors and the Model-As and Model-Ts. Where were the big tractors? Where were the muscle cars? Where were the power-breaking and the glass-packs? And the jacked-up monster trucks?
- Where were the pedal-powered contraptions — the crazy bikes and trikes?
- There’s gotta be some tricked out choppers and motorcycles in this town. We got a Harley plant in Kansas City, for cryin’ out loud.
- I think the Blue Springs Fall Fun Fest parade generally lacks forethought, imagination and creativity. It’s apparent to me in the parade entries and in the event planning.
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If I hear Lenny Dawson butcher the name of one more athlete I’m going to take my 19″ Toshiba TV and throw it out in the driveway and run over it with my Buick LeSabre until I feel better.
I don’t know why KMBC 9 News in Kansas City doesn’t just kick this old, alcoholic codger to the curb and get someone in there who can at least get the cue cards right.
/rant
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I’m sick of the iPhone blathering and all of the talk about Steve Jobs being a cult leader.
(Here’s a link to the 1984 video and the Office Lemmings one. Here’s a nice interview explaining the Cult of Mac. )
Enough already.
For those of you that think that the iPhone will be “all that,” here’s some things that it’s not.
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I was holding out hope that the Yahoo Beta Bookmarks would integrate more nicely into My Yahoo start page. It really didn’t. Now I’m having to change My Yahoo start page all around again. The Beta My Yahoo page is here now. Not good, IMO. A couple of observations:
- You can’t change the proportions of the columns. In the 3 column layout the normal wide and narrow module sizes just don’t fit visually (e.g. the Weather module). I switched to a two column layout, but now there’s lots of wasted space that doesn’t change with the browser window.
- The Beta Bookmarks are buried below a bunch of crap “services” links under a new drop-down called My QuickLinks. Even if I collapse them down, they don’t survive a page refresh. Totally not useful to me at all. I’ve got a workaround with the Beta Bookmarks feed that Tom Chi from Yahoo gave me, but it looks terrible in the three column layout because of point #1. I moved it to the top of the right column for now.
- The theme changer is nice. Fewer choices, but it works nicely with third-party branding AT&T. Can’t enter my own colors anymore. Oh well.
- Some of Yahoo’s own modules look terrible in the beta — like Yahoo! News: Top Stories. Especially in the headline, summary and image model with only one story showing. The image is cut off at the bottom.
I hope it will get better. I’ve sent my feedback into the abyss.
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Hi. In case you didn’t know/realize:
- you drive too fast
- you talk on your phone instead of paying attention
- the fast lane is slower than all of the other lanes
- you do have a turn signal
If you enjoy spending twice as much time getting to work, then keep being stupid.
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I’ll have to agree with the top two, for sure.
Where’s Microsoft’s Clippy and the stupid-butt “Rover” Windows Search Companion that *still* persist to this day?
I really want to put all of the retail versions of Symantec Antivirus on the list. It was never the same after Peter Norton sold out to Symantec in 1990.
Oh and what about those Microsoft keyboards that have the Insert, Delete, Home, End, Page Up and Page Down keys reconfigured. Oooh, I hate that.
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OK. I just can’t stand it anymore. The don’t like new soap dispensers they put in the bathrooms where I work. They’re the new foam type. The soap smells like rotten fruit/dead flowers/something. Eck.
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I think I’d almost prefer someone tell me an outright lie instead of churning out some super-lame excuse. I mean, really, you think I’m that dumb?
One thing that I hope my kids will always remember from their parents: If you tell a lie you get in worse trouble than if you told the truth about something bad.
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There are few things more annoying to me than people that always one-up something that I say or do.
Maybe I care too much about what others think about me or I take too much pride in my work.
Anyway…it hacks me off. Thanks for listening.
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