What's the deal with computer people at work?  They have one simple little job:  make my stupid computer work.  Yet somehow, they do the opposite of their job.  My computer works fine, so they go and change something about Active Directory.  And lo and behold, my computer doesn't work.  Not only this, but I couldn't even logon.  So their stupid little upgrades cost me about 2 hours of "productivity" (assuming that I would've actually done work during that 2-hour period of time, which is questionable).  Why do these people exist?  Why do they get paid?  It seems like they cause more problems than they solve.  Oh, and there's the "tech support" phone number.  Wow that's helpful.  "Hi, it's 8am on Monday morning and I can't login to my computer."  Thankfully they called me back.  4 hours later.  Yes, 4.  Super.

Hey how about Adobe Acrobat?  Why does it take a 75 MB program and 15 seconds of startup time to read some stupid little document file?  Maybe I'm naive, but it seems like someone could've maybe tried to make the program just slightly smaller and faster.  And then there's the fact that Acrobat is so full of useless nonsense (checking for updates, allowing copying but not editing, charging an exuberant amount of money to create some stupid little "portable document" file) that it takes even longer to load the program.  Great job guys.  Keep up the good work.

Or maybe I should take a look at weather.com.  Oh no, please no.  It's so full of ads and popups and flash animation that it takes forever just to get some stupid little information:  the weather outside my friggin window.  I've adopted a policy concerning ads:  I will never ever ever click on any ad on any webpage on earth.  This way, all those stupid advertising dollars are WASTED.  If I actually want to find out information about singles in my area, I'll search on google.  It's my way of screwing the system.  To avoid weather.com, I would recommend Weather Underground (which also has a lot of ads, but they seem to load faster), Google weather search (type "weather city, state"), and WeatherWatcher (a little program that sits in your system tray). #technology