What’s Pissing Me Off Today

You know what’s really pissing me off today? Applications that, when you paste copied text into them, try to keep the formatting from the original source. You know what? I never want the text I copy to maintain its original formatting. Never. I want text to just be text. If I want it formatted somehow at its destination, I’ll format it when it gets there. At least give me a fucking “paste without formatting” option on a popup window or something, because I’m pretty damn sick of copying text, pasting it into a plain text editor to get rid of the formatting, then re-copying it from there before I paste it to its destination.

Oh, and you know what else? Web sites that play music. Nothing will make me leave a site faster than when it starts playing music. Firefox takes care of the popups for me, I can deal with porno banner ads, but if your page starts playing fucking music, especially shitty midi music, I’m fucking gone. I didn’t even read your h1’s. Understand? Your losing readers because of that crap. It’s in your interest to not do that.

And hey, bloggers! That’s right, you there. Think you could fucking put dates on your posts? Just because sometimes I want to know if what I’m reading was written yesterday or five years ago. Oh sure, you might have dates on your main page, but do you have them on the individual post pages? No? That’s a shame, because that’s what google’s going to turn up. Have a look at your template(s) and see if you can figure this one out. Maybe you template designers could do your part too, huh?

Other than that shit, I’ve never felt better.