It’s definitely a neat idea, but it looks like a solution in search of a problem.
VMware 6.0
As mentioned earlier, I’ve been running my Ubuntu Linux test machine in VMware 5.5.4, because I already had a license for that version and I didn’t care to upgrade to VMware 6.0 at that point. However, a few days ago I ran across a description of the new features in VMware 6.0, and they looked very appealing. Continue reading ‘VMware 6.0’ »
“Bigger thing you have – nicer girl like it”
Where do these spammers come from, outer Mongolia? Wherever it is, they certainly don’t speak English there. I got this one today, with the above subject line:
Got a little hitch in your sex life, we can put it in the helve easily! Our remedy will make you really indefatigable lover in a wink of an eye for cheap! But be quick, our offer gonna expire soon! For details check our official website: [URL removed]
Ignoring, for the moment, the grammatical shortcomings of the rest of the message… helve? I know a lot of archaic and seldom-used words, but even I had to look that one up: “A handle of a tool, such as an ax, chisel, or hammer.” So this cretin is offering to put my “thing” in the handle of an ax, chisel, or hammer? Sorry buddy, that doesn’t sound real appealing, I’ll keep it right where it is, thanks.
The moral of the story: if you’re trying to trick foreigners into giving you money for fake pills and lotions, at least learn enough of their language that the offer doesn’t make them walk away laughing.
“Anti-smog jacket and no-cold-or-flu dress”
Uh, I hate to point this out, Ms. Ong, but unless that jacket goes around your face, it’s not going to do much to protect you from smog. The same goes for the dress: cold and flu viruses generally get in through the nose and mouth, not the parts covered by a traditional dress.
“The $3,500 USB drive”
“Paris Hilton dereassigned back to jail”
Apparently I’m not the only one who wasn’t impressed by the early release.
“Cat has camera on collar so we can see what he does”
Let’s hear it for miniaturization — it’s the cat-cam!
I’m waiting for someone to come up with a live wireless video feed from a cat’s collar. 🙂
“Just add water – students invent alcohol powder”
Why does it not surprise me that it was students who invented this? 🙂
No doubt the laws will catch up with this kind of thing eventually. Governments don’t like people working around their laws.
“Car drives into Long Island, N.Y., mall”
Ordering Checks, a User Interface Gripe
Does no company understand how to create a usable user interface?
I just tried to order new checks. Since this is the first reorder I’ve ever done with this company, I decided to do it by phone, instead of by fax or mail (the other two options). I called up, thinking that someone would talk me through the process… wrong. It was a completely automated system. I should have expected that, I suppose.
The limited help text built into it got me over the confusing spots, after two tries (because it hung up on me the first time when I didn’t respond quickly enough for it), but when I finally got to the end of it, all it said was the date of my initial check order — no confirmation that I’d placed a new order at all. When I pressed the menu option to go back to the original menu, so I could check on it, it hung up on me again. I called back to see if I could confirm that I’d actually placed an order, and re-entered all of my information yet again, it again only gave me the date of my initial order.
I can only hope that I successfully placed the new order. I guess I’ll find out if the new ones arrive. “When” is another question, which I also have no idea of. Some simple text at the end of the order would have been greatly appreciated, saying that I had successfully placed a new order and roughly how long it would take to get here. It wouldn’t have cost them anything extra.