Wednesday 25 August 2010
Women are not for decoration
Now far be it from me to wish to stereotype anyone but have you noticed how all feminists look the same? Plain, wear glasses, incapable of smiling, look like they should work in a library, own several cats and smell of wee?
Wednesday 11 August 2010
The stupidest creatures on the planet
Back when I first started building websites for people, it was a relatively simple task. Someone would phone up and ask for a website. Our designer would finish his spliff and then design something pretty. I would then write all the wizardry bits of code to make the site work and allow the customer to update the contents from a nice and secure administration area.
It was an easy life back then. Very rarely would there be any more to it than that. The boss would invoice them and they would happily go about their business. Very occasionally I would get a phone call from someone asking if I could explain one or two aspects of the site that they couldn’t get their heads around. That was fine because they were usually good questions.
However, things have somewhat changed since then. I’m not sure whether it is a result of people becoming too used to having things done for them or because modern technology has given people the impression they are cleverer than they actually are but people seem to be less able to grasp even the most simple concepts these days. Personally I think it is down to a simple case of genetic degeneration. Or to put it another way people are just becoming more and more stupid.
I am building things in almost exactly the same way as I did 10 years ago. Better in fact; more intuitive easier to navigate; better looking. Yet when I hand something over to a customer now, they cannot seem to grasp even the simplest concepts. People want me to input the content for them, they want me to spend a day down at their office teaching them how to use the system, they ask me how to find something even when it is right in front of their nose just because they wanted to make sure… for goodness sake people use your bloody common sense! Stop bugging me and leave me the hell alone!
It was an easy life back then. Very rarely would there be any more to it than that. The boss would invoice them and they would happily go about their business. Very occasionally I would get a phone call from someone asking if I could explain one or two aspects of the site that they couldn’t get their heads around. That was fine because they were usually good questions.
However, things have somewhat changed since then. I’m not sure whether it is a result of people becoming too used to having things done for them or because modern technology has given people the impression they are cleverer than they actually are but people seem to be less able to grasp even the most simple concepts these days. Personally I think it is down to a simple case of genetic degeneration. Or to put it another way people are just becoming more and more stupid.
I am building things in almost exactly the same way as I did 10 years ago. Better in fact; more intuitive easier to navigate; better looking. Yet when I hand something over to a customer now, they cannot seem to grasp even the simplest concepts. People want me to input the content for them, they want me to spend a day down at their office teaching them how to use the system, they ask me how to find something even when it is right in front of their nose just because they wanted to make sure… for goodness sake people use your bloody common sense! Stop bugging me and leave me the hell alone!
Thursday 5 August 2010
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