Look, I don't actually want to be rain on a parade. I don't actually want to spend a good 25% of my life seeing bad ux. I don't want to have to blog about it to try to get some kind of mental relief from the mental pressure that builds over time from all the slings and arrows.

It is truly amazing how when I'm on vacation and not using computers full time that (a) there's still a zillion things I have to do that use technology and that have some kind of bad abrasive ux in them, inevitably; (b) how hard it is to get back into the swing of things because of the onslaught of horrible things that I'd managed to forget.

When Toffler talked about Future Shock he got it sort of wrong for people like me: it isn't that we have too much change in terms of the rapid tech development, it is that every single tech thing apparently has to have some utterly egregiously bad UI/UX/IA/etc. things in it. There's just no escape. A wonderfully horrible daily blend of Franz Kafka, Woody Allen, Stanislaw Lem, Milan Kundera, Thomas Pynchon, Max Berry, et. al.

I say all that to preface how I go into some web app (a wiki) and there's a giant table, and the browser (Chrome) fails to have a horizontal scrollbar for it. So I guess I have to do some combination of maximizing the window size and shrinking the zoom factor.

But when I go to zoom the window in Mac OS X 10.10, with Option-click-the-green-lozenge, the window zooms only vertically.

(I would like to repeat that in all caps and then check myself into an asylum, but I'm somehow managing to skirt that and stay on the side of self restraint.)