Me, Myself and Mayvelous
11 Mar
So I slept at 5:30am last night and come to work at 9am this morning.
I was reading 5th out of 9 volumes of very captivating Manhwa, “Operation Liberated Men”, until my dad woke up and started yelling at me to go to sleep. Ok I will post about Hwang Mi Ri and Lee Mi Ra (sisters?) later. Their Manhwa are so damn good. “Hot Blooded Woman” by Hwang Mi Ri is definitely a must read. It’s so funny and listed as one of the best Manhwa around. Anyways, back to the subject – the annoyances.
The annoyances started due to lack of sleep but more because I couldn’t finish the Manga in one go. I can’t wait to go home this evening and continue with the reading. So annoying! Why do I have to wait till I get home, while it sits on my laptop!
There are lots of ants in the office. The tiny, very fast moving red ants, they annoy the hell out of me. They’re running around on my coffee cup, going inside laptop, taking a walk on the screen and doing all sort of things to annoy me. I couldn’t find the spray, Mortein, either. The cleaning lady must have hidden it somewhere. So annoying!
Whenever I open Macromedia Fireworks 8 my display color scheme changes to basic scheme. I got reddish pink but it always change back into the annoying pale blue scheme. It doesn’t happen with Macromedia Dreamweaver program but only problem with Fireworks. Such an annoyance!
I always use Dual Monitors at work. My laptop highest resolution is 1680 x 1050px and the duel LCD is 1280 x 1024. Every time I change to dual mode, I have to go change their resolutions as well; otherwise the laptop screen takes the same resolution as the LCD and the display gone stretched out and weird. Why do I have to click many steps to change the simple setting, why can’t we do that by one click and it changes automatically? Arrgh annoying!
I have this problem most of the time with new folder column settings. They display unnecessary columns like ‘Date Taken’, ‘Tags’, ‘Rating’ etc. I only want ‘Size’ and ‘Date modified’. So I have to uncheck the options from column header but the stupid thing keep coming back every once in a while for the same folder. Why can’t it just save the same setting forever! May be I’ll have to set that in the option list. But still…remember it for god sake, so annoying!
Lately, I’m not sure when it started, my Firefox or the Download Helper extension must have screwed up. Whenever I try to download using download helper FF extension, the download dialog box doesn’t function well. I click “Save” button but the file is not saving. I have to do save at least 2 times for the file to pick up in the download box and starting downloading. Before I can just press “Enter” key and it saves just fine. Now even direct click to the button doesn’t work well and have to do it twice. It just annoy the hell out of me!
I can’t use my twhirl at home. I can’t login at all from home. It works just fine from office. What’s the meaning of this? Is it cos’ twhirl stores some sort of network settings during installation? Then how come the twhirl on my bro’s laptop is working fine both at home and work? Must be stupid vista security settings again? Arrghh So damn annoying!
I use to login to my Gmail account first, from there I click on “more” dropdown list then choose to go “Reader” link, but occasionally the dropdown got shorten and does not list all the other apps anymore, so I have to type in the direct URL to go to GoogleReader or GoogleGroup. So annoying!
The MS Word 2007 is so confusing! Annoying big tool bar on top is taking too much space, it’s no good if you have small screen resolution. I can’t find page browsing arrows which I use to find at the bottom of the document in previous versions. To move to the next page, I have to either scroll down or press page down, but I want “Next” and “Previous” controls at the bottom as the way it should be. I also can’t find the “Print” control when I start using it. Can you believe none of those big tabs list the damn “Print” icon in there? Then I finally found it when I click the stupid icon at the top-left corner of the document. Print is an important function and should sit at the obvious place; at lease have it in the context-menu. But noooooo, it just has to go play hide and seek with me. So annoying!
I still got lot of annoyances but the post gone too long so leaving it for next time. Don’t read other people annoying post if you don’t want to get annoyed!
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5 Responses for "Exaggerated Annoyances"
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I stopped using Download Helper ext. The latest version of Real Player has FF ext for downloading flash file. it’s quite good and it’s able to detect *.flv from any site.
>>So I slept at 5:30am last night and come to work at 9am this morning.
5 am? I also slept at 2 am last night and I’m so sleeping now..
I used Real Player before but I don’t like it and removed it. Download Helper is still very good and easy to use for me. Just that it gone weird sometimes. I prefer browser based apps rather than desktop installers. Hate installing things; too much junks on my machine already.
Yes, sometimes I don’t sleep the whole night if I’m into some good reading; I then wash my face and go straight to work in the morning. I know I’m a nut case.
Yes. installing thing.. but it has FF ext. I wrote about that once.
http://michaelsync.net/2008/02/24/download-flash-file-with-realplayer
>>sometimes I don’t sleep the whole night if I’m into some good reading;
dont do like that so many time.. we are not designed to do that.
It’s very disappointing that Windows can’t still remember the folder options correctly. Also, it still can’t remember the correct size (the last open size) of, say, My Documents too. It’s almost Windows 7 now and Microsoft should do something to remedy it (coz I find it very annoying to have to change the view again and again).
I, for one, like the new Ribbon interface of Office 2007. In fact, I’m glad that MS has licensed it to other third-party companies to use the interface. PowerArchiver has now adopted it and so has MindManager. I do understand that a drastic change in the interface is not really very good and MS should have given an option to go back to 2003-like menu style (but they failed in that or they just dropped it completely to force users to try the new UI and to get to like it).
Ah…ha…
>>>So I slept at 5:30am last night and come to work at 9am this morning.
Doesn’t that remind you of the uni days?
@Justin,
Yah eventually I’ll get use to those Office07 ribbons and agree about drastic change in UI is not very wise. It confuses the users.
Hmm…no, in my uni days, I hardly sleep late.
I slept around 10/11pm usually in my uni days, well may be exception for those exam/assignment due times. You then sweating yourself out doing last min job hehe.