Tuesday, March 3, 2009

More Things On Sticks

Yay! Got rid of the evol and offensive avatar! I never realized how obnoxious those kinds of stereotypically 20skinny&beautiful avatars are until I had to get one. Kudos to the 23 things people for linking to the South Park kids site.

OTOH, a big ol' raspberry to them for this:

"If others use your home computer, it is a good idea to discuss any changes you might make on that computer, too."

Who wrote this, and who was the intended audience? Do I look 12? Or is it just that he/she feels that adult library staff are incapable of interacting reasonably with their significant others? (If it's people's kids the writer is worried about, then that's a whole other story about the writer's mindset.)

Then there are these gems:

Buy a tabbed address book to record your usernames/passwords. Enter the tool name under the right letter, then add your personal info. This works well, but don’t lose it!

Keep your passwords in a Word document on a flashdrive—you can encrypt the drive, too. But don’t lose it either!


Somebody just told an entire audience of people whose job it is to organize information to write it down, file it alphabetically, and don't lose it.

Twice.

I'm not sure I need to add any commentary to this bit of fail.

2 comments:

Carolnb said...

The same people who need a online calendar to help them organize and write their papers need to be told at least twice to do the things you mentioned....

Karen said...

*laughs*