Things That Are Irritating

That looks like your big, fluffy dog took a small, fluffy dump :twitch:

 

1. When apps or the removal of apps have unexpected consequences for unrelated Windows system operations. I deactivated some 'live monitoring' feature or some such thing in Ad-Aware, which had arbitrarily decided to start blocking the TOEE.exe from running in the spirit of our favorite anti-virus apps, and it consequently made the Windows page navigation sound start playing even if 'no sounds' was the current sound scheme. Let me repeat: deactivating a feature in Ad-Aware made a sound start playing in defiance of a system condition. :bored:
   
   Which leads me to ...
   
   
2. ... when search results go bad. So I searched for "can't disable system sounds in Windows XP." Which naturally resulted in a bunch of links on how to edit or enable system sounds in Windows 7.
   
   In the end I recorded over the damn navigation sound with 1 second of 'blessed silence,' so now when the play the damn navigation sound, quick! order goes out every time I click the mouse, I hear nothing anyway.
   
   I don't like the stupid Windows sounds because after listening to all that ding-dong-skip-to-my'lou nonsense a thousand times, I get a little tired of it. :hahano:

 

Let the Google decide for you!

This is a bit of a rehash from above, but recently I've done a lot of Google searching on terms I didn't wish to search for, because after browsing a couple pages of search results, I realized I was looking at results for something I didn't tell the Google to search for, because Google decided I was better off searching for something else. I hate when that happens.

Me: types in "blue car."
Google: Did you mean "red car?" Here are the results for "red car."
Me, two pages later: Actually - and I know this is crazy, but - when I typed "blue car," I mainly meant "blue car." I guess I'll just forget it now anyway.

 

From some Blackberry interactive tutorial thing I was watching:



I couldn't read the final paragraph because the auto-sequencing was moving too fast and took me to the next page before I could read it. Fearing that I would miss something vital, I had to click 'back' to see what that paragraph said. Imagine my dismay when I saw what it said.

Seriously, does anything get any QA anywhere anymore? And this isn't Uncle Freddy's corner discount secondhand wireless mart. It's f*cking Blackberry. :roll:

 

There has been a traffic crash on the highway! Traffic quickly becomes backed up, and you crawl along at extremely low speeds for up to an hour before you finally clear the scene and break free.

We've all been there, but on at least three occasions now I have come abreast of the accident scene just as things were being wrapped up (ambulances and tow trucks driving off, crews removing the last of the debris, cops jumping in their cars to go for coffee and donuts) and the all-clear was being given and all the lanes were being reopened. So everybody else who came after me didn't have to wait and subsequently goes racing by, but I had to wait the absolutely full duration, right up to the bitter end.