I'll make this quick. Could the idiots in my life please leave?
Webcameron, David Cameron's video page, doesn't work; it is impossible for me to watch older videos on it, because the person who built it is an idiot who doesn't understand what a URI is, or what a Resource is, and probably needs beating round the head with a good book on the subject.
FeedDemon has always been slightly behind NetNewsWire in terms of ease-of-use, particularly in arranging feeds in folders (where FeedDemon would sometimes undo changes a day or two later for no obvious reason); now it's become utterly useless to me, as the synchronisation between the two doesn't actually synchronise, and the folders simply aren't being matched one product to the other. I have no idea why this is the case, but my bet is that they've each implemented synchronisation individually, rather than sharing code.
Firefox still only shuts down cleanly perhaps 20% of the time, meaning that I have to manually kill it to get restarts that preserve tabsets to work. Sometimes I forget, and having to remember to hard kill a program to get it to function isn't really acceptable. Yes, there's an extension to preserve tabsets for me better than Firefox itself manages; no, half the time it doesn't work with new versions of Firefox. My browsing experience is less pleasant than it was with early versions of Mozilla (say, 0.9 through to maybe 1.1). Don't even get me comparing it to the nineties.
I still cannot simply consume bundled (say, one subscription covering a group of studios) multimedia over the internet. Why is this so difficult? A back of the envelope calculation in 2006 said it could be done for under five million dollars, with a profit margin on top of a reasonable subscription. The crazy thing is that the AMPTP is now in a worse position on this kind of thing: failure to innovate weakens the hand of incumbants. Like that's news.
Windows has this stupid thing where it flashes a window's chrome and its taskbar representation whenever the window wants to 'notify' me of something. I don't appear to be able to turn it off, which is a problem when (a) notifications come for things that aren't important, like a transient error or - in the case of Filer windows - simply not being able to display the window contents yet; (b) modal dboxes are considered notifications, when everyone knows that they're used liberally in places they shouldn't be. I run maybe eight applications most of the time, many of which want to tell me something regularly. Most of them have system tray icons to tell me; however they also notify the window, so everything starts flashing and I can't concentrate on anything. There is a multiplicity of idiots at work here.
Okay, so I'm stunningly arrogant, but I really don't like it when my imagination outstrips reality to such a staggering degree. It's one thing to dream of flying cars, but quite another to think of things that are both technologically and economically viable and still wake up and discover they don't exist. Idiots: get to it. In the meantime I have to replace your shit with stuff that works, or find some way of chilling out. Neither should be necessary.