Archive for the ‘SUX’ Category
Google+ Pages SUX
Posted by: sarah on: March 30, 2012
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As some of you know, I’m one of the many people behind the various Stir Trek social media accounts. Recently, I was asked to set up a Google+ Page for the event, and I figured… “I’ve set up Pages on Facebook before. How painful could it be with Google+?” Creating a Google+ Page After seeing [...]
Microsoft Billing and Account Management SUX
Posted by: sarah on: March 29, 2012
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Recently, I wanted to manage my billing options, as I had an invalid credit card tied to my Zune and XBOX Live account. Unfortunately, I had the experience of meeting the Microsoft Billing and Account Management site. This is unfortunate, as it is a site with horrible, HORRIBLE user experiences. Select from Account IDs Yes, [...]
Zune Software + Windows Easy Transfer + Windows Phone = Unhappy
Posted by: sarah on: March 18, 2012
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Today, I’ve run into a Zune software + Windows Easy Transfer + Windows Phone unhappy situation. Hopefully blogging about it will help us find a proper solution. Background For the past year and change, my IT administrator at home (also known as my husband) had been nagging me trying to get me to put my [...]
Exploring Office Productivity Suites…
Posted by: sarah on: December 8, 2011
In August, I became an independent consultant, which meant that I needed to figure out how I was going to use software in my day-to-day job and how I was going to afford it. Software licensing can be a costly thing, but thankfully I have another company looking after me on some of that. The [...]
Spam SUX: Chase threatens…
Posted by: sarah on: November 2, 2011
Waitress: Well, there’s egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam; Vikings: Spam spam spam spam… Waitress: …spam spam spam egg and spam; [...]
Problem with Telerik’s recent geekette shirt…
Posted by: sarah on: October 30, 2011
- In: SUX | WiTty Perspectives
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I have no problem identifying with being a geekette (as is obvious with my domain name). However, I do have a problem with one of the more recent geekette shirts to hit the public (this one courtesy of Telerik): Most geekettes I know dress like a typical geek. We like our hoodies and geek tees [...]
SUX Adventures with the Dell Latitude E6520
Posted by: sarah on: September 5, 2011
While in the middle of surfing a web page in 1 tab in Google Chrome, with nothing else in the background, my favorite blue screen came back. It’s frustrating that this blue screen doesn’t stay up long enough to get details and also doesn’t log to the Event Log. But the KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE errors continue, even [...]
Dying hard drives on new laptops SUX
Posted by: sarah on: August 26, 2011
Just a few weeks before devLink, I purchased a new laptop to replace my ASUS G51JX. I ended up getting a Dell Latitude E6520. Within the first few days of getting it, the laptop had a KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE blue screen and lost sight of the hard drive. After rebooting a few times and working with Dell [...]
Zune Software SUX… Again
Posted by: sarah on: August 7, 2011
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I’ve recently become the owner of a Dell Latitude E6520, and while reinstalling my software, I figured I’d get my Zune software installed so that my Zune HD could sync up with this laptop. And boy did I see one of my favorite “undocumented features” of the Zune software - barfing on playlists and throwing [...]
The Perils of Passwords in Plain Text…
Posted by: sarah on: June 2, 2011
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While talking with friends, I recently learned of some passwords being accessible in plain text in one of the applications that many of us have used at one point or another. As time goes on and we have more and more hacked accounts and security breaches, I would hope that administrators and developers would grow [...]
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