Over the years I've developed a reputation for being able to rant on about just about anything, and in the course of time I've decided to make a feature of it. Let's face it, there's a down side to just about everything, and it's often worth documenting. The rants in this directory aren't intended to be overly negative: in general, they point out how things could be improved. In many cases, they contain are open questions. If you can help, please contact me.

Computer-related rants

• ChatGPT: Artificial stupidity
• CAPTCHA: How to chase away customers
• Avoid BigPond Mail
• Bad language in modern computer usage
• Breakage in Microsoft's mail handling
• documents order reverse hate I Why
• eBay's broken concept of security
• What I want from a GUI
• The Microsoft space: a series of approaches to make life more difficult.
• The web: publishing for kiddies
• Why I don't use term “windows” for Microsoft products.
• The Internet: our future, but not our present
• The web isn't completely broken, but they're working on it
• Why I hate reverse order documents
• Why satellite IP will never work well
• Obsessive security in X
• Point and grunt

Rants not related to computers

Some of these rants are long in the tooth.

• Bad language or newspeak?
• Bad language in cooking
• Feeding sourdough: exposing the nonsense
• Malcolm Turnbull and the Liberals have lost the plot
• “Speeding”: a non-word
• Submission on default speed limits (PDF)
• Victoria's bushfire information infrastructure
• V/Line: masters of obfuscation