Annoyances

Posted on August 20, 2010
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OK, something not tied to technical philosophy. This is my grumpy old man rant. (Even though I’m far from an old man yet, despite a few grey hairs are starting to make their appearance near my ears)

1. Blogger Comments: The software, not the hobby. Google’s blogger won’t allow blockquote tags so you can’t indent quotations. It involves way too many steps to just post your comment. It’s annoying as all get out.

2. White Text on Dark Backgrounds: Man I hate this. Guys – there’s a reason books aren’t published like this. It wouldn’t be quite as bad if the brightness and contrast were down a bit but typically it isn’t. It can be done well. (Witness Daring Fireball) Unfortunately very, very few are able to pull it off in a readable format. Fortunately this is why Apple came up with their Reader functionality in the new Safari. For everyone else put Readability into a bookmark. Trust me. It makes reading far too many blogs much easier.

3. Spam: I’m so fed up with this. Since I have to handle sales issues I have to have my email online. And it gets harvested by every spammer around. So I have to use spam filters. And inevitably some important email gets treated as spam. Given how big a problem this is I’m really surprised no one has solved it. This goes back to the problem that email protocols were written in the more trusting times back in the 80′s. There really has to be a new protocol but given the nature of the industry no one will agree to do it.

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3 Responses to “Annoyances”

” It involves way too many steps to just post your comment. It’s annoying as all get out.”

AGREED!

I usually do not comment on blogger/blogspot blogs for this reason. Wait…maybe they are using it for that reason.

Well, in light of all that, thanks for taking the trouble to comment over on SCT. I don’t know what I can do about the comments, but as to the text/ground question, I am giving this some thought. May take a while but I hope you’ll keep reading in the meantime.

Oh, I still comment. It’s more a gripe about Google.

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