Next week - some other crap how do something equally shyte with a shyte OS

Thanks - for nowt

I shall now return to scanning the site that may have some relevance to my life in the world of IT

You read the whole thing. You have NO LIFE!

Damn and here I was looking for the root kit tool box

for some reason the term small things please small minds spring to mind

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Showing the poofing code, but not mentioning that the images and sound are part of the last vestiges of Newton?

Paris, because she knows to Eat Up Martha.

"for some reason the term small things please small minds spring to mind"

It seems you don't appreciate the value of discreet UI feedback to users.

Are you by chance a Linux programmer?

Just a pity that the above commenter's don't realise that not every article is written for them. It's like the sports section of the paper, I bet that they don't like that either.

... what they say about Mac owners -

all a load of poofs*.

* Not meant to be in anyway homophobic, I'm just making a lame play on words and peoples' predjudices.

No - just a programmer who has had to sort out one too many applications where the coders seem to have spent more time producing flashy graphics, which may look "cool" for a few times (when/if they work but look boring after the 20th time) than providing useful a UI to tell the user what they really need about their current task etc.

Sorry I can't really see this article being of interest to anyone other than programmers! and yes I am a programmer.

I am not sure TheRegister is the right place to publish such coding "blogs" (for want of a better description) - though it gives us chance to moan - so perhaps it is the right place after all :-p