* Posts by DataWombat

2 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jan 2018

‘I crashed a rack full of servers with my butt’

DataWombat

I was in the optician's trying to get a retina photo - nothing on the monitor. Cue much switching the monitor on & off etc. Eventually I looked where the cables were going, and found the PC mounted under the table cunningly positioned so my knee had hit the off switch. Meanwhile the wife was waiting outside thinking I'd got horrendous retina problems. Apparently it was all my fault...

Hawaiian fake nukes alert caused by fat-fingered fumble of garbage GUI

DataWombat

2-item drop-downs are dodgy

It's often not obvious which one of only 2 items is the selected one, especially for users, especially if they aren't concentrating on the UI