Tue 14th Jun 2005
Posted lunch time, filed under
General.
Funny or interesting things I’ve seen, thought of or heard during the last day or so.
- I misread the colour of something in the hardware store yesterday - I thought it said Missing Brown.
- I thought I was going to be waiting for ages for the train this morning, as when I got to the crossing, I could still see the back of the last one. When I got to the platform, the next one was coming. If only the trains came that often all of the time. Oh, and the one I ended up catching was virtually empty. Not surprisingly.
- When my train was going through Keswick station this morning, there was a conjunction of trains, where all four were at nearly the same place at the same time. Different tracks, obviously.
- I misread fortune cookie as fortune wookie. Okay, that one isn’t that funny either.
Tue 14th Jun 2005
Posted late in the morning, filed under
General.
Microsoft Wordâ„¢ 2002 (10.2627.2625) has an extremely crap ‘new feature’.
When you press the Delete key with a block of text selected, nothing happens.
If you notice down in the bottom left corner, Word asks if you want to delete the block, requiring you to press the Y key.
Talk about crap interface design. Having to press two keys to delete a block of text, when there is a perfectly good undo system in place if you accidentally delete the wrong text.
How often do you accidentally delete a block of text, anyway? And why not make the consistency of having to press ‘y’ when you go to overtype a block of text? Or press Enter when a block of text is selected?
I’m now going to have to use the latter, rather than delete.
Microsoft, you guys suck.
