oloriel: (baby stuff - smart babe)
2013-10-17 11:23 am
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Junior Hacker

... Felix clicked around on my computer. He probably meant to activate iTunes and listen to some music, but he actually activated Firefox ("the yellow bear" as he calls it) - and de-activated my AdBlockPlus. And I wondered why suddenly I saw advertisements left and right where they'd never been before until I remembered that there had been some background clicking while I'd been sweeping the floor...

Serves me right for leaving the laptop open where Felix could reach it, I guess. And if any of you receive strange communications from me in the future... well, now you know it wasn't me and it wasn't the cats! XD

[ICON HAS NEVER BEEN SO APPROPRIATE]
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oloriel: (lotr - Fëanor invented the internets.)
2011-04-01 05:57 pm
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Auto-correct and how to overdo it



In amusing news, I wasn't aware that the new OpenOffice writer collected words from all documents you open in it. And then tries to be helpful by recognising the letters as you type, and suggesting auto-completion options based on the words collected throughout your previous typing. (A horrible feature, I have no idea why people would want their writing program to do that, how is that supposed to help anyone? But fortunately I found out how to deactivate it.)

Anyway -- the first documents I opened were a couple of fanfics for B2MeM, and a Quenya/English wordlist.

No, Writer, I actually meant to write "that", not "Thargelion". And "car", not "Carnistir". Thanks for trying, I guess, but... no. (And the auto-completion list reads... interestingly. Very interestingly. Good that I'm the only one who uses this computer.)

This is almost as bad as the over-helpful Office paperclip. Just more funny. Bzuh.
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