Call me kooky

My biggest problem with technology is that it’s often overly stupid. For instance, to get pictures off my cellphone I have to upload them to a server, login, then download them. STUPID! I haven’t counted all the steps necessary but it’s over 5. That’s 4 too many.

People just want the content not the crap. For instance, this website is pretty stripped down. The most intensive part is that image on top. It allows you to get to the content quickly. I usualy use scribefire to make posts. Why? Because I don’t have to click a bunch of stuff in the wordpress panels to get to where I can right. I only have two categories, and I don’t really use all the other stuff so scribefire is quick and easy.

I encounter this at work too. We have some software you need for our hardware, which is fine except the software tries to do too much. The hardware itself you can buy in any store from the company that makes it, install the damned thing and be up and running in no time. But our software with our hardware has to be special and lock things down to our products. That’s fine, I understand why but christ it’s always a pain to get working because the software is trying to be too smart.

Supposedly apple products work a lot better in this respect, but I know apple likes to “lock you in” to their product line. I can go for this if everything just freaking works. When products from the same company don’t mesh it makes me very unhappy.

This whole post was spurred on by the fact I just started playing with opera mini 4. It has a pretty nice “overview” mode, the problem being it’s impossible to read and a little difficult to manage. Though it is pretty neat in use. Fortuneatly opera has a “fit to width” option which does away with the fancy stuff and makes it readable in one quick, easy, simple, step. Kudos Opera.

Yeah, I think about these things,
Phosphers