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Funny or interesting things I’ve seen, thought of or heard during the last day or so.

1. I misread the colour of something in the hardware store yesterday – I thought it said Missing Brown.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. I misread fortune cookie as fortune wookie. Okay, that one isn’t that funny either.

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.