If I have your program minimized to the taskbar in Windows, the context menu when I right-click on it should have ‘Close’ at the very bottom. That’s right, SQL Enterprise Manager - I’m looking at you.
Why, why, why would you break with such a basic expectation? I really never use Help Topics. It doesn’t even need to be on the right-click menu for this program!
Today’s Featured Annoyance
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from Rands
Management by crisis is exhilarating, but it values velocity over completeness; it sacrifices creativity for the illusion of progress.
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Balboa
I found this clip of Peter and Mia doing an after-class demo - unfortunately it was filmed from a cellphone, so forgive the audio.
If I make it to All Balboa Weekend this year, it will most likely be on a dance-only pass (thank god for the dance-only pass!). I’m hoping I can fill out my days with a few private lessons - ideally Mia and/or Peter, and Kelley and/or Mickey!
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Extreme Sheep Herding!!
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Kokiriko Bushi Remix
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Monkey Bee - Electronic Chinese Opera
Fantastic video for a song from a recent project by a Gorillaz alum - Monkey: Journey to the West
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I love Japan.
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Michelle Obama, at Howard University
“The question that I hate most that we ask of young people is, ‘What are you going to be when you grow up?’ And the truth is, I still don’t know, and I’m 45 years old,” she said. “All I know is that it’s important for you to be true to yourselves, not to worry too much about what other people are going to think or make of your choices, because everyone will question what you do and tell you you should’ve done it the other way.”
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What are the Social Marketers doing to our soil?
"Now I’m fairly pragmatic and realise that this descent into marketing is probably inevitable and if consultants weren’t doing it for them, companies would end up doing it themselves. However I think there is something a little seedy about people who purportedly love social media, yet end up helping companies pollute it with marketing drivel."
Read the rest at Andy Budd’s
This is really one of my pet peeves of the interaction between the internet and corporations. I think that often marketers (both in-house and contract) tend to jump at the Facebooks, Twitters, YouTube because "That’s where all the trendsetters are!".
And for things like "Will it blend?", that works. But that’s a one in a million thing. Ideally (when I rule the world and milkshakes are delicious and free), companies ask themselves "How can we better help our customer and market?" and then ask "Can the internet help us do this more efficiently?".
But I think that that does require a certain amount of prioritizing customer relationship over profit, which few corporations are allowed.
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