I, for one, agree with him. I love it, and have gone to relatively great lengths to keep it.

An obvious rebuttal to the nay-sayers is that URLs don’t always share the same prefix as what is actually available at the address. And, although I’ve become trained to memorize the former instead of the latter, it always annoyed me that I had to.

gianttip? cad-c? apfo? No, what I want are “Order of the Stick“, “Ctrl-Alt-Del Comic“, and “One Piece Manga“.

In this day and age, I don’t want to care that the URL is moofs.com instead of moof.com, or .net, or actually baz.co.tv/content/random/moof—what I want is “Clarus the Dogcow“, and it’s about time computers started doing what we mean instead of what we say.

Old habits are hard to break, but there are some habits worth breaking. Should we all go back to driving flywheel-less manual transmission cars with no power steering, too? (Me, I prefer paddle shifters)

Unfortunately, IBM has sold off its PC division to Lenovo, and, as is usually the case with such acquisitions, the overall service suffers. In this case, the culprit is Lenovo Canada’s website.

For some god-forsaken reason, the executives at Lenovo Canada had decided to replace what is a clean and usable piece of online-shopping application with another less useful, buggy, and down-right eye-soring piece of crap. Alright, so crap is a little strong, but it is without a doubt an inferior application.

The R and T line of Thinkpads come in both the fairly standard SXGA, as well as the oh-so-sexy SXGA+ display standards. Having been exposed to and used the latter, I am afraid I can never go back, and have no choice but to give in to my 1400×1050 resolution addiction. Now, herein lies the problem: the Lenovo Canada online store does not indicate whether or not a certain laptop model is equipped with the former or latter. I searched high and low, but discovered nothing but a tibit saying how they were available, but not where from. Oh, and a bunch of pages that produced 403 errors. That’s right: the bloody website isn’t even fully operational.

Luckily for me, during my latest hunt, I had stumbled upon the old IBM shopping system. Hoorah!

Now, back to weighing my guilt for once again spending a lot of my parents’ money against my lust for a brand-spankin’ new Thinkpad T60.

Not moments ago, I noticed that the charging light on my borrwoed DS is turned off, no doubt indicating that the device is now fully charged, just waiting for me to pick it up and play another few rounds of Meteos.

Now, this meaningful indicator thing may not appear to be a big deal, but I’m sure we’ve all had our share of recharging devices where we, the user, had to spend effort to find out whether or not that device still needed charging. For example, the charger that came with my used cellphone has an red LED which turns on when it is plugged in, regardless of the amperage that is actually going through the thing: a completely useless indicator, other than perhaps seeing if your wall plugs are indeed giving you power.

The DS, on the other hand, only needs to be glanced at. If the orange light is on, it’s charging; if it’s off, it’s good to go.

Kudos Nintendo—kudos.

goSFU is no longer a garbled mess of 3-pixel-high text, as well as a few other sites I visit.

Some websites, on the other hand, have began to display huge texts, much to my bewilderment.

This will likely change my attitude towards web design yet again…