Archive for rant

I have to deal with unreasonable KGS users all day long. They argue about totally insane things ad infinitum. I try to be patient and understanding, as far as it’s possible. I am even trying to be nice to people who complain about escapers.
I got used to KGS users being unreasonable, but I at least […]

Do you know what common sense is?
Common sense is:

NOT setting fixed height for elements whose actual height can change anytime, and especially not setting this particular height to three elements next to each other, to keep them with the same height (common sense solution is to wrap it all in another element)
NOT calling your database […]

Why oh why do native speakers suck at spelling so much?
English people are notorious for making the most basic mistakes. Your/you’re and their/they’re/there win shared first place for the most annoying and stupid misspelling. It twists the meaning and shows that whoever wrote that can’t even grasp the absolute basics. Also, if your keyboard features […]

I am getting pretty sick of KGS. It’s been bothering me for several months already.
Most admins don’t care about the users at all. What’s worse, I’m starting to be like that too. I simply follow the rules: “leave me alone, we don’t deal with escapers, the system does it automatically”. Which is true only partially. […]

Call me biased.
As much as I love cheese, I hate chess.
Chess is often regarded as “the best board game”. Some say that chess is profound, that it requires more skill to master than other board games, and chess players often act arrogantly (take that, bastards, I can be arrogant too).
What I dislike the most about […]

I think I should create a category called “rant” in my blog.
I think you also read all those funny stories… Secretary: “I have a problem with Windows.” Support: “What do you have on your monitor?” Secretary: “A flowerpot.”
It’s funny as long as it happens to other people, but I get a lot of similar questions […]

I’ve been playing with (pdf)TeX lately, and I thought it might be a good thing ™ to transfer some of the Project Gutenberg e-texts to pdf. So I did. And now what?
The Project Gutenberg website seems quite nice on the first sight… even on the second sight… the books are neatly organized and searchable and […]

The participation at the Czech go championship used to be almost for free, sometimes we even got money for each won game (not much, but still).
This year, everything has changed – almost 100€ for entry fee + accommodation. I don’t want to spend that much money for something that should be free (I already placed […]

A lot of people have LCD displays (the flat ones, as opposed to CRT monitors). The “problem” with LCD is that each pixel (the little dot that can display any colour) is physically fixed in one position. So using LCD with different resolution than the one it was built for is a very bad idea. […]