Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Back to the mail; bugs, clarity.
Decided to do some Web 2.0 research, apparently Facebook is just great - registered there to play. The add friend workflow is pretty poor: keyboard widget / focus traversal appears rather broken, I guess the popups are faked which explains the lack of wrap-around. A visible focus highlight is non-existent for many links / widgets and so on. Yet more irritating, is the captcha dialog which (apparently) has neither keyboard accelerators nor a default action for the entry box; urgh. Of course, right clicks everywhere bear a staggering and content-free resemblance to the browser's. Then of course there is the extraordinary profusion of unhelpful built-in browser / keyboard accelerators that make you go back / forward with no notice, and inevitably loose your data, urgh. "Yes Holmes, the 'application development platform of the future' includes this great 'throw away your data' feature, easily accessible from any number of keystrokes, placed carefully adjacent to the keys you like to press." Retreated quickly to a world of fat-client sanity.
Lunch, call from UK tax advisor, filed tax return, tried to pay large HMRC bill on-line, without obvious success, call with Carlos. Got stuck in an endless loop of recriminations with:
```
osc build
Getting buildinfo from server
wrong repo/arch?
```
tried various increasingly contorted combinations of repo/arch to no joy, still the same frustratingly unhelpful message - once again a wet-ware failure no doubt, filed bug.
Dug out some compiz startup performance numbers for David, put babes to bed while J. split to counsel a crisis, played with E. for some time to keep her calm until J. returned with food. Bed early.

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Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

2009-01-19: Monday.