Question: What do you call a sweet little fascist?
Answer: Mousselini.
It seems that every day I come across at least a few sites that don’t work. Either they’re completely down, or some parts don’t work, or some forms do not function, or inter-site links are broken.
I started thinking about this, and I’m fairly sure some three years ago there weren’t anywhere near that many sites that were broken. Today it seems like at least 10% of sites have some flaw in them, maybe even more.
I’m going to keep track of it. Starting right now:
Dell: Couldn’t open a product page. It said “Updating content”, and I got tired of waiting after 10 minutes.
Lenovo: Still the same problem I whined about a couple of days ago, the individual product pages do not work at all. The front page animation works, so I don’t think it’s a missing plugin from my part or anything like that, plus I’ve tried it with a couple of separate computers.
Local police: Can’t make an appointment reservation, the form throws an exception after clicking the submit button.
Hmmm… I wonder how this will play out eventually, when everything is moved online like the current trend is. I’m betting a lot of fun. For example, let’s say I tried to submit an online application for a visa for some foreign country, and got an exception – did the application get registered with them or not? Is it a valid application? Why am *I* the one who now has to go through all the trouble of finding out what happened and what should I do next?
My advice to you all is: be careful. Be very, very careful when conducting business online. You’ll neven know what happens, and no one will take responsibility if something goes wrong.
I just found an invoice of what I believe is the first software sale – as in software I have programmed and then sold – I have made. It’s from 1987. Whoa. I was a young guy then – so, what, does that make me an old guy now?
I’d want to be a lighthouse keeper on some distant rock in the middle of an ocean, where no ships ever go to. I don’t want to be anywhere near people. People are boring and so am I.
Apparently, it’s way difficult, especially if you happen to be one of the biggest in the industry. My laptop is starting to go flaky so I’m looking for a new one. Went to Lenovo’s site – oh great, iPaddles there too – and tried to click on a laptop model’s “Read more” link. This is what I get:
Yea, nothing but an empty page declaring it as top-seller. No idea why. It’s the same for all models, been like that for a few hours already. And I’m not using any fancy-pancy weird browser or anything like that, I have IE8 on Windows XP.
You think I’m going to buy from Lenovo? How fuckin’ difficult can it be to make sites that just work?
