I got an email in the inbox recently that hit close to home with one of my beliefs for software and usability. In a nutshell, my pet peeve is when software experiences feature creep and goes above and beyond a users expectations – more importantly – their need. You may consider this an advantage but [...]

As seen on craigslist.org, read it for yourself. I’ve decided to save a copy as this posting will eventually fall into the void as all postings on craigslist eventually do. Hey Crackhead Yes, you. You sick fucker. On Wednesday morning I emerged from my girlfriend’s building by U.N. Plaza to find that you had sawed [...]

As i’ve mentioned before, my workplace uses Outlook and Exchange as their email platform. Personally, I would rather use nearly any other email client before choosing Outlook. Unfortunately, in a corporate environment we don’t always have much choice. The most recent problem? It comes down to email formats; you’ve all seen the HTML, Rich text [...]

I have this legacy code from a client, the code is used to dynamically write ad content on their site. We’re redesigning the clients site and you guessed it; they want us to re-use this legacy code. The problem? As so many others in my position have surely found, is the legacy code sucks. For [...]

So I took the plunge, I upgraded to WordPress 2.0 on the weekend. While it has some nice flashy features compliments of Ajax, the only impact the upgrade has had on me is slower posting time. That’s right, the warm and fuzzy WYSIWYG editor they have included in 2.0 is painfully slow and not so [...]

It’s depressing isn’t it?

This is nothing new, but outlook sucks.