The Microsoft MAG/NET Interface

Update 2012-05-18

I'm now working on a compendium of my annoyances.

One of my continual frustrations with life is Microsoft's patented MAG/NET™ interfaces (Most Annoying Guess/Not Ever Thoughtful) interfaces.

These are the interfaces that, no matter what you want to do, it does something else. Everything in Office^® is that way, and I suppose the new Windows^® is as well (I haven't used it yet).

Anyway, I invented that "trade name", "MAG/NET™", the other day and thought it would be worth a giggle.

Kitties site

I've finally put up a site about all of my cats. You can visit it here, or from the "My Kitties Site" link in the "SITE LINKS" at right.

Goodbye, Freckle

It was a bad week: Poor Freckle passed away rather unexpectedly a week ago last Tuesday; less than a week after poor Mr. Arnold.

Freckle was born about the same time as Mr. Arnold (though they might have had different mothers). She was named that because of the single red-orange patch of fur on the left side of an otherwise white nose.

She was a gentle kitty and I was very sad to see her go.

Goodbye, Mr. Arnold

Mr. Arnold, one of my older cats, passed away Thursday after a long decline.

He was named Arnie at birth for reasons I no longer remember in detail; his namesake was Arnold Schwarzenegger. It fit him very well when he reached adulthood; he was big, rangy and strong. But one day I tried "Mr. Arnold" as an experiment and he expressed a definite preference for that.

I'll miss you, Mr. Arnold.

Cable Strikes Again

So on Friday, a contractor company employed by "blight mouse" (but not actually "blight mouse") appears to replace the on-pole cables for our neighborhood.

First off the bat, they take the cable down completely for more than an hour, because after all, "No one would be using it for work or anything like that."

Uu

I was interested in how many English words have "uu" in them. So I used More Words with a "*uu*" search to find them.

Then I came up with this atrocity, which uses pretty much all of them:

According to the duumvirate weltanschauung (issued during the triduum): The residuum after removing the squushier continuum vacuum, is the continuum ultravacuum. (The dictum also requires anyone who refuses to believe this to wear a muumuu.)

I thought about waiting to publish this until the evening of April 5 (the start of the triduum) but decided to not be excessive. (Yeah, right!)

The Wonders of Customer (Dis)Service

Here I am, sitting on a call with a cable company that I won't name, but it's name rhymes with "blight mouse".

How is it that the service representatives for these companies can be completely devoid of logical sequence?