Things That Have Pissed Me Off
Over the weekend (and a little before it) a few things have annoyed me. I thought I'd list them out, simply because I've got nothing else to do while sitting on the train traveling from the airport to my folks place. They're nothing big, but it passes the time :)
- When you get on a plane, you need to show your ticket the person scanning them. But then, as you step into the plane itself, you have to show it again to one of the stewardesses. Why? They've already let me on, it's not like I'm not meant to be there. so I dig it out again, and she doesn't even look at it!
- I've been flying in to Melbourne on a Sunday night to save myself having to get up at 4am on a Monday morning to fly down. Last week I flew out at 7.30, which got me to my folks house at around 10.30. This week I decided to leave a little earlier, and flew out at 5.30. This is great - I landed and then got to Spencer St station at about 7pm or so. An hour later and I should be at mum and dads. But a football game was on at the Telstra dome (right next to Spencer street station) and guess when everyone left? At about 7pm. Standing room only on the train tonight :(
- Airport security annoys me. For the first time in all my traveling lately, Jordie decided to actually see me off properly, not just drop me off at the airport. She keeps a nail file in her purse - which of course came up in the scan. This is fine, but what's annoying is that they immediately presumed that she was going to use it with ill intent, and treated her like crap. You would think this sort of thing would happen a lot - people just forgetting they have something that's banned (because we use them for their correct purpose, not what airline security think it could be used for). On top of that, the only choices were to either throw it in the bin or take it back to the car. Even though we asked, there was no way they'd hold it for her until she came back out of the departure lounge. Bastards :)
- I've been doing things in C# a lot lately. I might prefer VB, I might even be a VB MVP, but that doesn't mean I have a problem with coding in this clunky backwards language :) Out of all things that might annoy me, I only have one beef at the moment. Why won't people enclose single line if-statements in curly brackets? Before you start complaining that I'm just not used to it (in VB you HAVE to have your End If statement) let me tell you that that's not the problem. Before I was a VB guy, I was a C and C++ guy, and I had the same problem back then. Just because you don't need the braces right now, it's pretty likely that you will in the future. Put them in right now, and save yourself from forgetting to add them when you add a second line later! So many bugs are written that way! I've seen this a lot in the last week...
- If I allow an update to be installed via automatic updates, and it wants to reboot, I don't mind that it keeps asking every 15 minutes. But I have something important going on right now, and I don't want to reboot. So when you ask me again and again and again, stop giving the dialog that prompts me the focus! The dialog takes the focus, and both the buttons have keyboard accelerators. I've come *this* close to rebooting in the middle of something important so many times because I've been typing away and then suddenly the keys I'm pressing are being sent to the reboot dialog.
- It really annoys me when I have an idea about a post I could write (like this one) and then I forget half the things I was going to mention. Damn...I'm sure I had more :)