Some questions...
Apr. 30th, 2006 06:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katiefooleryI sit here with some questions which I hope some people out there can answer. They are most perplexing and confounding and driving me to distraction.
Firstly, I shall list the question foremost in my mind, due to my attempt to wrangle with it not five minutes hence. Viz., Why is Yahoo such an unmitigated piece of human waste? Seriously? They had a sweet set-up with their free webpages at GeoCities, only to stuff it up by destroying validated code with their Javascript ads and creating an ad that couldn't be closed, unlike their previous version. I was just updating my details on my Yahoo account which I have purely for a group to which I belong. There was an option to upload a userpic, which I always like to do, to give visitors an idea that I might be a real person. So I naïevely went along and browsed for a picture on my computer... only to be told I couldn't upload it because I wasn't signed into that piece-of-rubbish Yahoo picture-management palaver.
Alright.
Foolishly, I went into it and tried to upload a picture... only to find I'm required to first download a 30mb program that will look for all the pictures on my hard drive so I can simply choose which ones I want to put on Yahoo. Yeah. I really want to do that because a) I have that much time to kill and b) I'm an idiot.
So that will teach me to think Yahoo might have changed since I last dealt with it.
My second question is iPod related. Yesterday, I installed an iPod nano that Bindi, my sister-in-law, received for her birthday. All was working well - she put songs on it and we worked out how to find the sleep timer. Much delight was experienced by the good Bindi. Then it suddenly went sour this morning when Windows now refused to acknowledge the iPod's existence. Perhaps the iPod said something rude to Windows? Or maybe Windows is just being childish because the iPod nano is so black and slim and pretty, not to mention efficient. So why have they suddenly stopped communicating? It's a brand-new iPod!
Third question. Which I seem to have forgotten... Oh well, I suppose I could ask why I've forgotten question three, although it seems a little counter-productive.
Nuts. I'm positive it was a really good question, too.
Oh well. Answers to the two questions I could actually remember would be much appreciated, lest I start tearing my hair out over them.
I just remembered the third question! Plendiferous! It concerns an orange fruit drink and the bottle it comes in. Please tell me why you think a company would design a bottle that ensures that every time you put it on the bench after pouring it, the juice sloshes out of the neck and onto the bench, floor and possibly even your footwear. What is the point in that? Do they want us to run out of juice quicker, causing us to buy more? Or are they just really, really stupid?
Actually, you don't need to give me an answer for that one - it was mostly a chance to rant a bit about the design of fruit juice bottles.
Any other answers will find a ready home here, though.
Firstly, I shall list the question foremost in my mind, due to my attempt to wrangle with it not five minutes hence. Viz., Why is Yahoo such an unmitigated piece of human waste? Seriously? They had a sweet set-up with their free webpages at GeoCities, only to stuff it up by destroying validated code with their Javascript ads and creating an ad that couldn't be closed, unlike their previous version. I was just updating my details on my Yahoo account which I have purely for a group to which I belong. There was an option to upload a userpic, which I always like to do, to give visitors an idea that I might be a real person. So I naïevely went along and browsed for a picture on my computer... only to be told I couldn't upload it because I wasn't signed into that piece-of-rubbish Yahoo picture-management palaver.
Alright.
Foolishly, I went into it and tried to upload a picture... only to find I'm required to first download a 30mb program that will look for all the pictures on my hard drive so I can simply choose which ones I want to put on Yahoo. Yeah. I really want to do that because a) I have that much time to kill and b) I'm an idiot.
So that will teach me to think Yahoo might have changed since I last dealt with it.
My second question is iPod related. Yesterday, I installed an iPod nano that Bindi, my sister-in-law, received for her birthday. All was working well - she put songs on it and we worked out how to find the sleep timer. Much delight was experienced by the good Bindi. Then it suddenly went sour this morning when Windows now refused to acknowledge the iPod's existence. Perhaps the iPod said something rude to Windows? Or maybe Windows is just being childish because the iPod nano is so black and slim and pretty, not to mention efficient. So why have they suddenly stopped communicating? It's a brand-new iPod!
Third question. Which I seem to have forgotten... Oh well, I suppose I could ask why I've forgotten question three, although it seems a little counter-productive.
Nuts. I'm positive it was a really good question, too.
Oh well. Answers to the two questions I could actually remember would be much appreciated, lest I start tearing my hair out over them.
I just remembered the third question! Plendiferous! It concerns an orange fruit drink and the bottle it comes in. Please tell me why you think a company would design a bottle that ensures that every time you put it on the bench after pouring it, the juice sloshes out of the neck and onto the bench, floor and possibly even your footwear. What is the point in that? Do they want us to run out of juice quicker, causing us to buy more? Or are they just really, really stupid?
Actually, you don't need to give me an answer for that one - it was mostly a chance to rant a bit about the design of fruit juice bottles.
Any other answers will find a ready home here, though.
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on 2006-05-01 12:15 am (UTC)The iPod's connected via USB and I'm going to try a restore, although I don't like my chances. The problem is that iPod was a present to Bindi from a friend, so we just have to hope the friend has kept the receipt.