"Ooh," I say, "let's click it."  The message disappears.  On further investigation, however, it turns out that this message is still there, still taking up space and cluttering up your mailbox:

Why, if the message is still there, is this called Delete?! If you're moving something to the trash, instead of deleting it call it Move to Trash!

Thunderbird is not the only application with this problem.  Here's my Google Mail:

On clicking Delete, our friend Google Mail will helpfully move the selected message(s) to the Bin where you have the option to Delete forever… which is apparently different from regular deletions which are temporary.

Why, Google and almost every other software builder, why?!  If you are deleting stuff, label the button Delete. If you are moving stuff label it Move. It's not that hard, really.

What do you do? You turn on the coffee maker and start logging back in. Now of course, your employer has decided that this new-fangled security thing is worth trying out, and he has implemented a policy of having passwords for everything.  Application developers have in turn responded by having password input dialogs not unlike this one:

Password input box

Now as you may well be aware, these bastards pop up something bad!  You click your e-mail icon and start typing away, happily updating your Facebook status in your browser window while this monstrosity of an e-mail client loads your five years of e-mails from the IMAP server, and blam! Password please, where of course now you have answered something along the lines of "ith her mom instead!!" and you have to wait the obligatory three seconds between attempts.  Or perhaps even worse; your Facebook status ends up as "I ditched her and went out wi3@Nk)lo02f" because the window pops up over whatever it was you were doing, but the focus did not get shifted!

Of course these come in varying degrees of suck.  As jubbink pointed out, some of the dialogs pull you in to a trap.  Others just merely steal your focus and make you speak nonsense on Facebook and reset your password before you've had your Monday-morning coffee.  They should all DIAF.

To give you an idea of how wide-spread of a nuisance this really is, here's a scientific comparison using the Googles:

That's right.  Stealing focus sucks an order of magnitude more than Sasha Gray and Jenna Jameson combined!  I even gave it a handicap in this expirement.

If only application developers would figure this out, maybe we'd spend less time on changing passwords and more time on uh, entertainment.

Today, we got our first comment spam!

… or at least, that's what I thought.  Checking the actual content showed:

Now I'm not too familiar with the web 2.0 terms, but I believe this is called a pingback by all the hip kids.  Unfortunately, it was caused by one of my posts, linking to another post, and thereby commenting on another one of my posts, and then flagging itself as spam automatically.  Also, do note that the IP-address listed there is actually the one the server runs on.

Or something like that.  What I do know is that this is pretty damn retarded.  Get stuffed, WordPress.

Fire it up!

Hm, no full screen.  Let's make it full screen!

Duhr.  No full screen option in the menu.  In fact, no options at all that are in anyway related to the video I'm watching.  Let's right click the video, maybe they hid it there.  Nope.  Nothing.  I would've posted a screenshot, but a screenshot of nothing happening isn't very exciting.

So fuck this, let's exit and try another movie-playing application.  Click the main window again, and lo! The full screen option appears:

Why there?  Really?  Doesn't it make sense to you people to integrate this all into one window?  Quicktime can do it.  Windows Media Player can do it.  DivX player can do it.  Okay, VLC can't do it, but at least it adds menu items to the viewer window.  Why do you have to be retarded, MPlayer?

But hey, why am I complaining?  I've found it right?  Let's click full screen and see what happens:

Full screen my shiny metal ass!  That's the menu bar up top there, and the main window right smack in the middle of my movie!  I'll go see what's on TV…

Backwards compatibility.  Don't you just hate it?

One wonders, first of all, why this is reported because this is a shell feature and certainly not a bug in cat.  Secondly, how dare they make assumptions as to which shell I am using, what options are set, and then pass the whole thing off as a bug in the man pages?

As you can see file1 clearly does not get overwritten in my shell:

Yes, Apple, we are aware your users are mostly idiots, but polluting the manual pages with incorrect information in an effort to keep the dumbasses from destroying their precious pr0rn will certainly guarantee you a spot on the wall when the Revolution comes!

Here's a standard false positive on Junk Mail:

Obviously, the black bars were added with Adobe Photoshop Elements by yours truly.  Now my filters aren't particularly well-trained, because Google Mail catches most spam, so this being a false positive is not the problem at all.  However, do you see the big "Load Images" button on the top?  Do you see any images?  That's not because I didn't click the button.  This is a simple automatically generated message without images.  "Fair enough, but maybe it's just to fill up space on text-only messages and it works on HTML messages" you say?  Wrong!

Another false positive. See the big "Load Images" button?  See the "XBOX LIVE" image?  Yah.  Good job, Mail.app.

Why? Probably some crap about being able to avoid input sanitation for rm commands called from shell scripts as root. Wait? Does that make sense? No! Then why? Probably because someone some day might yell "Holy shit! I almost accidentally the whole root! Thank a deity I remembered to add the –preserve-root option instead of the –no-preserve-root option!". We can only hope the monkey next to him will have reproduced the works of Shakespeare by that time.

You don't have space for the word "prepared"? It's only eight letters long, and yet you replace it with "[...]" which is five of those eight characters anyway! This wouldn't be so bad if you also didn't have space for a giant SUBSCRIBE heading in all caps, along with an 'RSS Feed' button roughly the size of your mom and the colour of her dye-job gone wrong.

And to add insult to injury, you lay out the "blogroll" (what the hell is a blogroll anyway? It sounds like something I would order after consuming too much beer) right next to the tag list, making electricmonk.nl a site about "bad user interfacing".