Working with people

There’s a good article over at The CEO Refresher about the things they don’t teach you in management training which outlines why working with other people is often the most difficult aspect of any office worker’s job.

VMware design stupidity

Here’s proof that sometimes software designers make really, really stupid decisions.

Like a lot of other web development professionals who use Linux for their development environment but also need access to MS Windows applications, I run VMware Server to access the corporate MS Office applications, including email.

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Live advertising on Google

I just noticed that Live now advertise on Google.

How peculiar that a Google’s competitor would pay money to Google, just to have a user redirected back to its own search engine results page.

Knowing that the overwhelming majority of our own visitors prefer Google, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that Microsoft will spend lots of money, just to remain competitive as a minor player.

But paying for keywords and hoping users will click on the sponsored link instead of the organic results seems a bit naive to me.

Stupid browser no more?

Good news for standards based developers. Microsoft have now decided that IE8 will comply with web standards by default.

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Southwest Airlines booking form

Here’s a portion of the reservation form at Southwest Airlines. Can you spot what’s wrong with it?

Yep, apparently passengers aged 2 and over are adults, while passengers aged under 12 are children.

Confused? So are Southwest Airlines too.