Difference between revisions of "Likes and Dislikes"
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* The English language. | * The English language. | ||
* Living in a country with some form of statutory gun-control. | * Living in a country with some form of statutory gun-control. | ||
| − | * Scripting | + | * Scripting languages - they provide memory management / garbage collection, weak type-casting, and the code is generally interpreted not compiled so things can be developed quickly. |
| + | * Wikipedia, wikis, and other tools that allow web content to be created quickly and collaboratively. | ||
| + | * Snorkelling around coral cay tropical islands. | ||
| + | * Chocolate. | ||
| + | * Boogie boarding. | ||
| + | * Most of the movies on the [http://us.imdb.com/chart/top IMDB top 250]. | ||
== Dislikes == | == Dislikes == | ||
| − | * | + | * Religious or ideological zealots. |
| − | + | * Strangers who disturb me on the train or at home, and try to sell me something or indoctrinate me into their religion. | |
| − | + | * Web sites that open unsolicited popup windows, or have flashing / moving advertising. | |
| − | + | * Sites that use [[JavaScript links are evil|JavaScript links instead of normal web links]]. | |
| − | * Strangers who disturb me on the train or at home, | + | * Water-saving shower-heads - standing under a trickle of water struggling to wash suds away is not my idea of fun. |
| − | * Web sites that open unsolicited popup windows | + | * Online shopping sites that are structured so as to make it [[Online stores should publish their shipping rates up front|hard to find international shipping prices]], or even worse, won’t give you pricing on international shipping until ''after'' credit card details have been entered. |
| − | * Sites that use | + | * Computer vendors shafting their customers. |
| − | * Water-saving shower-heads - standing under a trickle of water struggling to wash suds away is not my idea of fun | + | * Snooty people who take more time to point out spelling and grammar mistakes than it would take to just fix them (you know who you are). |
| − | * Online shopping sites that are structured so as to make it hard to find international shipping prices, or even worse, won’t give you pricing on international shipping until ''after'' credit card details have been entered. | + | |
| − | * Computer vendors shafting their customers. | + | |
[[Category:About me]] | [[Category:About me]] | ||
[[Category:Opinion-Editorial]] | [[Category:Opinion-Editorial]] | ||
Revision as of 00:43, 3 January 2007
Some of My Likes and Dislikes:
Likes
- The English language.
- Living in a country with some form of statutory gun-control.
- Scripting languages - they provide memory management / garbage collection, weak type-casting, and the code is generally interpreted not compiled so things can be developed quickly.
- Wikipedia, wikis, and other tools that allow web content to be created quickly and collaboratively.
- Snorkelling around coral cay tropical islands.
- Chocolate.
- Boogie boarding.
- Most of the movies on the IMDB top 250.
Dislikes
- Religious or ideological zealots.
- Strangers who disturb me on the train or at home, and try to sell me something or indoctrinate me into their religion.
- Web sites that open unsolicited popup windows, or have flashing / moving advertising.
- Sites that use JavaScript links instead of normal web links.
- Water-saving shower-heads - standing under a trickle of water struggling to wash suds away is not my idea of fun.
- Online shopping sites that are structured so as to make it hard to find international shipping prices, or even worse, won’t give you pricing on international shipping until after credit card details have been entered.
- Computer vendors shafting their customers.
- Snooty people who take more time to point out spelling and grammar mistakes than it would take to just fix them (you know who you are).
