If you are making a font, and it only has one form of double quotation mark, and you make it anything other than to little absolutely vertical lines, then I kind of hate you.

It is furthermore super cool when a security sensitive web site/service has like 3 different url aliases for it that render the same looking page but for all I know could be phishing crap.

The last few times I've called <a certain place> to reset my password (because their own https password reset page fails security checks in both firefox and chromium), I've gotten the same person (who is actually very patient, helpful, and competent). Do they really have only one single person handling all the telephone password reset requests?

Pretty funny (not) when the password reset form tells you that you have to have certain things in your password, but then when I type in a password that actually does not meet one of the criteria, it (a) dynamically updates to show that it things I have in fact met it, and (b) takes the password update just fine.

date of birth?

home address?

email address?

ok!

NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL SECURITY!

I think overall I probably do not like all the tracking and data collection that has been going on for ever, and which has recently been more in the news. (Of course the irony is that every since we've all had cell phones we've been tracked, but nobody really freaks out about it. So much cluelessness end to end.) But we've become inured to it I guess, even after doubleclick debacles and facebook effups.

However, one place I definitely don't want to see any trackers is on my health care provider's web sites. What the hell, people?! What the hell. Yeah, I so truly really want "brightcove" and "crazyegg" trackers, yeah!

I've worked on various user interfaces over the years. So it is funny/amazing when I am updating my Gmail and it says oh by the way it has 1 billion + downloads. Which is utterly amazing. On the other hand, it is also sad that it is such a piece of junk UX in so many ways.

"Because they can."

Why does Google have to make not only such horribly bad UIs, but also a bunch of different, inconsistent, bad UIs?

Linux often really sucks from an end user grandma I just want to do stuff UX perspective. If anything ever goes wrong (and it will, and it will be for no readily apparent reason) then you are pretty much utterly screwed because if you try to e.g. look at something akin to /var/log/syslog it will be full of warnings and errors about zillions of things that may or may not actually be relevant. (I mean, yes, I do grok the utter impossibility of having a kernel + extras that actually works across all the different hardware configurations out in the wild, so the fact that anything works anywhere ever at all is a freaking miracle!!!) But, ahem, the whole debugging process is just not useful.

I suspect anything Nvidia does with Linux is just really to make it so that people give up on linux and then move back to Windows. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=225695 ... but of course having used Windows stuff and been through driver hell there as well, it isn't like I'd really expect everything to Just Work there either.

If you set your expectations sufficiently low enough... I will say that I think the Captain Underpants movie was pretty good!