the boredom of ramfree17

A common computer prank is to take a screenshot of an unattended Windows desktop, configure the desktop to hide all shortcuts and the taskbar (for more kicks, move it in the left or right side) and then set the screenshot as the wallpaper. The pranksters then wait on the wing for the unsuspecting user to keep on clicking the applications in the screenshot and scratch their head why nothing is happening.

There is another behavior that makes this prank effective: tunnel vision. If using a big screen then people would have a tendency to zoom in on the middle portion and not pay much attention on the edges unless really needed. This and my work on “environment support” ensures that I make an ass of myself once a week. I normally take desktop screenshots when working with different applications. I usually position the different application windows in such a way that all the information are in a little portion of the screen. I then past the screenshot in mspaint, select the portion I need and send it to the other support team.

And then I move on to the next task and sometimes I forget closing the mspaint. Sometimes the mspaint window ends up getting the focus and then I start clicking on the the app window buttons or menus and wonder why nothing is happening. It is only after a few seconds that I notice the palette on the left side, or the title bar at the top. That is the time I press alt+f4 with a vengeance for using part of my 5-minutes of daily foolishness at that moment.

Just letting out some steam and sharing as this is the second time that it happened to me this week.

ciao!

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This conversation almost made it to my “huh” page if not it was intended to massacre the English language.

For those who don’t have access to the Picasa web albums, here is the transcript.

Alvin… paps
Alvin… r u gym?
Alvin… even though r u cook
Allan… i’m sure not

Too bad bash.org rejected it when I submitted it.

ciao!

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Existence of extra-terrestial browser has been confirmed when visitors from outer space left clues to what tool they use when surfing the intergalactic information super-highway…

http://lug.oregonstate.edu/gallery/firefox-crop-circle/mg_5491_1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DsHlev5Dg4

Credits to Ariz and Gideon for providing the links!

ciao!

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I just popped into the Mandriva Users board and flashed through my thousand new posts and saw this link:

http://dojo.fi/~rancid/loituma__.swf

It’s supposed to be a Finnish folk song that is looped with Japanese Manga animation . It is supposed to either cheer you up, or make you gnash your teeth. I am ranking it next to the badger song.

ciao!

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Like most tech-oriented people, I love Google (the browser and the company) since they always bring innovative ways on how we do things and also a fresh non-corporate-like corporate approach on things (sounds like an oxymoron ).

GMail really hooked me up because they had a few nifty features when they started and they kept on adding new features as time goes along. This is the reason why I am still reeling from feature-withdrawal symptoms since the company I work for black-listed it in favor of so-called security (its a BS7799 thing). I still get to check my GMail account every once in a while but the recent feature addition is *gasp* adding a delete button directly on the mail listing *gasp* . Previously users had to access the delete functionality from a dropdown box. This was because GMail does not want people to delete mails but rather classify and save them. This is not an altruistic goal on the part of GMail since it helps Google serve really targeted advertisements in the non-obtrusive way that Google knows best.

Well everybody familiar with the tech scene knows that Google is building up to be a big corporation similar to Microsoft. The only difference is most geeks love Google as much as they love bashing Microsoft. I said most because there are others who bash Google the same way they bash any corporations. To these people, corporations is automatically synanymous to evil! They say that Google is amassing too much clout in swaying how people shoudl think and act.

What really made me laugh was the sequence of comic strips featured in userfriendly.org regarding the “delete” button in GMail. It started with this strip which culminated for this week with this strip. There might be a continuation tomorrow since it is only Friday here but I won’t see it until I return to the office on Monday.

Gotta love the comment from the poor web developer from Y**oo!

ciao!

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