I've blogged about how much I hate cold callers before, but this one is really taking it too far.
My phone provider calls EVERY DAY. Technically this is not considered cold calling since we have their services or whatever, but they keep asking for my landlords when I have told them numerous times that they cannot be found here. They won't talk to me personally because I don't own the line, so WHY won't they take a note of the fact that I CAN'T DO ANYTHING FOR THEM? I have told them how to contact my landlords. I have told them that the property is rented out and the line with it. Do they listen? Of course not.
The stupid thing is, I can't change the phone provider because of the renting situation thing (normally the phone is connected by the person renting, not the landlord, however because of 3875928375928735982735 problems occurring when I tried to do it, landlord had to) nor can I do anything about them calling me twice a day every single day (and no, I don't answer any more. If the person really wants to contact me, they'll leave a message). ARGH.
...and ARGH #2: I've just found out that I completely misread one of my university assignments. Instead of the deadline being at the end of next week like I thought, it's actually on Wednesday morning. That's in a day and a half. I haven't started yet and this is a complete project that needs to be done. GAH!
Idiots who redistribute insecure scripts or scripts that aren't around on the author's site any more.
I saw a classic the other day: "PHPCurrently (might be hackable) - download here!11one" Might be hackable?! Why on earth would you give it out for others to install then? For your information, PHPCurrently isn't just a "might be" in terms of "hackability" - it's a "definitely".
People who think they know what they're doing and preach about it when they have no idea what they're on about.
"I LERNT PHP!11!1" No, you learnt PHP includes. "OMFG THATZ LEIK PHP THO I ROOLZ!!11"
WordPress.
Why are you suddenly not working with my forms any more? I'm not talking about this site - WP (usually) worked fine on here, but it's a client's site. Can't really switch them to my CMS because they need the rich text editor (and no, my CMS doesn't have one :P ). No explanation as to why the form won't work. Same script, same version, same everything... WP just doesn't like it any more. Gah.
University work.
I have to do my dissertation again, from scratch. The draft I handed in last week was no where near good enough, apparently. Grrr.
Cutenews.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm sure it's a great script. I've never used it though, and I always associate it with really bad "tween" sites full of rubbish tutorials, stolen layouts and all that. Of course, there are exceptions to those, but still... The URLs are ugly (who wants those long index.php?subaction=showcomments&blahblahblahblah=1&blah=2 things? Not me) and it just ... doesn't appeal to me.
Um, and other things that I can't think of right now. :P
Edit - September 2011: This entry is getting a lot of attention in recent times. Please note that this entry is now over 6 years old and details a mistake made when spilling water on a computer. This is written purely from a personal point of view and is not really suitable for use in essays and/or references. This is a personal site which does have any academic/scientific backing.
Now why didn't I listen when I was told that?
Let me explain. Earlier today I was thirsty so I had a bottle of water on my desk next to my laptop. For ease of use, I'd left the lid of the bottle off so that I didn't have to take it off all the time.
Now, I'm in the process of moving out of this room, so all my stuff is in random places, including my external CD-RW drive, which was currently on its side leaning against my stereo. The water bottle was next to it.
Of course, the CD-RW drive had been sat there on its side for the past few days all nice and steady... and it chooses today to topple over (to the other side it was leaning towards...), taking the bottle of water with it and therefore resulting in water all over my computer. I grab the tissues and start mopping up my keyboard and touchpad, getting the majority of the water out. I tried typing, and of course nothing was working. I tipped the computer on its side and out came a shower of water from the keyboard... I didn't even think that much water had got onto the comp in the first place since the water bottle was nearly empty, but eeeeep so much water!
Comp refused to do anything after that, except with my usb mouse (not the touchpad) so I shut it down and got my recently packed hairdryer out to try and dry the computer out a bit. This worked for a couple of minutes... until the hairdryer stopped working for absolutely no reason. O.O I thought maybe I'd maxed the fuse or something, but I don't see how I could have done that. I left both appliances alone after turning the comp upside down so that the water would hopefully fall out or something. I tried turning it on about half an hour later - all fine, except when I try and log in (the comp is password protected, see) - keyboard still acting up. I try to switch comp off - nothing doing. Bah. I turn it off with the power button, then try the hairdryer in a different socket - nope. Move it back to original socket - ah it works now. Weird. Anyway, I get on with drying computer out... then restart it. It wouldn't start properly so I made it start with "Last Known Good Configuration" and it at least seemed to want to log me in. Yay!
So here I am now. Computer's dry now, but the space bar is really sticky. Not the actual key itself, but if I press anything remotely near the space bar (including the touchpad and surrounding plasticy bits) it gets stuck and I have to hit my poor computer repeatedly to get it to unstick. All that, and I haven't checked the CD-RW drive for damage after it fell over. Oh well, it survived me dropping it on the floor once so... yeah... I'll find out when I get home, I guess... or not, I don't use it there. Hmmm. Yeah. Anyway.
Blah. That was long and useless. Just learn from that, kids - water + computer (or any electrical appliance, for that matter) = bad.