Archive for the 'annoyances' Category

Mar 05 2010

@#$%*! :)

Published by Phillip under annoyances

I had to use a smiley face emoticon in an email today to someone I did a job for over a month ago but hasn’t paid me yet (I didn’t want to seem pushy). A little piece of my soul withered and died.

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Feb 04 2010

I Don’t Like Sharing

Published by Phillip under annoyances

Does anyone know how to remove or disable these annoying pop-up “Share” buttons?

I’m using FireFox 3.5.7 with Vista.
A certain Greasemonkey script works on CBC.ca and a few other sites, but not all of them. Does anyone know how I can remove these annoyances from all sites?

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Jan 13 2010

We Love You Celine!

Published by Jody under annoyances

OMG I’m SO first in line.

(Note the category for this post above)

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Nov 22 2009

CBC Survey

I was asked to participate in a survey from Confirmit.com while reading this morning’s news at CBC.ca. I said yes and answered a series of questions about where I get most of my news: Radio, Internet, Television, Newspapers or Other. I get 90% of my news from CBC.ca or CBC Radio. I don’t watch TV [...]

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Nov 21 2008

Files with No Extension

What’s up with people sending files with no extension? At least once a week someone sends me a file without an extension. Sometimes I can fix it by adding an .rtf or .doc extension. Sometimes I can’t.
How do people manage to send files without extensions? How do they lose the file extension by sending [...]

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Mar 09 2008

An Hour Later

Published by Jody under annoyances, life

Daylight Savings Time kicked in last night; time went ahead one hour.

This has been a public service announcement.

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Jan 16 2008

Tim Hortons’ Cup Lids

Published by Jody under annoyances

Most portable hot drink cups have a pre-made hole in its cover or one you have to make by bending a flap. Tim Hortons‘ lids have the second type, which fail 50% of the time for me.
Two main problems with Tim Hortons’ cup lids:

Ripping the perforated plastic to the indicated line results in [...]

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Oct 22 2007

Uh Oh – A Fictional Character Isn’t Heterosexual

Published by Jody under annoyances, reading & writing

4,200,000 search results for “dumbledore gay“.
Why did the author, Rowling, proclaim this? Because she wasn’t in the news enough lately? Why is this item so popular?
Really, who gives a fuck?

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