Unlike my wife, who insists on hoarding tons of heavy furniture and knick-knacks, I hate owning anything that I can not pick up with my bare hands (and trust me, I can’t pick up alot ).

I find it absurdly annoying that people, especially in offices, desire to have heavy wooden furniture that barely fits through doors, let alone carry down the stairs or shove into an elevator.

What is the benefit of owning big heavy furniture? Why can’t you just put your crap into a box so it would be easily portable?

Also, with the invention of computer technology, cloud storage, etc… why do we even need to keep files and folders around?

Having furniture to store shit is an archaic practice and we should stop going down that road.

Seriously? Like Seriously?

The government is giving you free money, through programs like the Pell Grant, and your excuse is you don’t know how to fill out the application?

Check it out: How to Apply

Staying up until 1 in the morning trying to figure why some code you wrote will not work, when every piece of documentation you read seem to suggest that it should work.

Then you find out its because the codebase you are working with has some custom extensions that overwrite the basic functionality you relied on.

It goes like so…. I was trying to do this:

@person.attributes = params[:person]

This is very simple and straightforward. Set the attributes to the submitted params. Just a basic Hash merging.

Well, my logs kept reporting sql queries for things like SELECT, UPDATE, SHOW, etc… I guess it wouldn’t have mattered, but the damn UPDATE query was messing up my data object.

After almost an entire day of fumbling around the internet, countless forums, and even hitting up the IRC, I followed Bennie tip and found that it was because there was a custom extension that extended the basic “attributes=” of activerecord.

Sigh……………… Why……… Why…… Why……..

I don’t understand that. What is so hard about gently picking out each item and scanning it individually?

Let me tell you what I’ve learned from Grey’s Anatomy:

1. The hospital breakroom is for sex – be careful next time you go in there – clean it well
2. All  doctors are gorgeous people, especially the male doctors – Mc Dreamy, Mc Steamy, Mc Donalds
3. When you’re a doctor, you can sleep with anyone – seriously – anyone
4. Being an attending means you can sleep with any intern, resident, or patient
5. During surgery you can yell at the each other
6. When there is a medical emergency you can disobey your supervisors and cut people open because that’s how you win approval and praise
7. Alcoholic? schizophrenic? No problem.
8. The third date is the sex date.
9. Having sex with random strangers is a perfectly good way to solve all your problems
10. …. Add your own in the comment section

Here is one piece of opinion for all you photographers out there

Please, for the love of humanity, stop using flash.

Using flash is a terrible way to display your photographs.

1) It takes forever to load.

2) The photos are small and often cannot be resized.

3) You cannot link to a photo to you like

4) The user interface/interaction your flash designer created is horrible

5) Your creative flash intro/effects are not that creative and I don’t really care for it.

What you should do:

1) Use a popular image gallery like flickr or picasa if you are not paranoid about privacy

2) Show bigger photos if you have them

Hrmm, ok… Who the f*ck needs to know my SSN? You can’t be f*cking serious.

I already paid you, and you want me to give you my Social Security Number?

Can someone tell me if any other sites do this? I have ordered thousands of dollars worth of stuff from Dell, Amazon, etc… and never in my life have I ever been asked to divulge my SSN.

Man, f*ck you TigerDirect, f*ck you.

Man F$@K you.

I do not want have a favorite food, I did not have a childhood pet, I don’t know the names of any of my teachers, and I have no idea where I was born.

So again, F@#K YOU!

As a developer, if anyone asked me to implement a security question, I will quit on the spot. Because that’s a clear sign the company knows NOTHING about usability.

Why am I pissed? I just called ATT. They REFUSED to look at my account and turn on my internet because I didn’t know who my favorite singer was. I told them to type in “f*ck you”, because that’s what I usually type whenever I get one of those.

Damn I am so pissed. What pissed me off even more is that there is actually a company out there that will literally RESET your password if you know the answer to the security question. WTF?? Why do we even have a password if a dumb security question could overwrite it?

Man F*ck the Developer and UX engineer team that makes security questions. Are you f*cking retarded???

Time to add another website to my list of stupid things web developers do. Today’s stupid site is linkshare.com – I wouldn’t complain about them, except for the fact that they did ask for my Social Security Number when I registered. I figured that if they are handling social security numbers, they would be pretty competent. Nay…

Look at the screenshot. So they have a username and password — the password field has a maxlength of 12. Yet, my password is longer than 12. It’s not my fault, they allowed me to use a password that is longer than 12 characters.

So I firebugged the maxlength to something bigger and entered my password. Bingo, it worked!

But if I was just a normal user, what am I supposed to do? Linkshare form fail. Thank God I didn’t give them my SSN.

Don’t believe me? Look at the current market condition:

1) Dow is back up to 10K
2) Goldman Sachs doing well, paying more bonuses
3) Jobless claim up last week, more expected
4) Foreclosure rate up 25% from last year
5) No free health insurance for you, but you will be required to have health insurance

I’ll be first to admit that I know very little about the economy and politics, but it doesn’t take a genius to see that this is not cool.