Useful Non-Word of the Day
"Idiosecrecy" - an anomalous behavior from a proprietary piece of software that evokes irritation from the user.*
K coined this last night while mucking with a piece of Adobe-ware. I ran into it this morning while trying to restart a piece of hardware that was being cranky. In my case, it was a mode-sensitive menu listing. The menu option needed to restart the hardware only works when one is in a specific other menu display.
* - doubtless, the wording can be improved but that's not my speciality, especially not mine for today.
K coined this last night while mucking with a piece of Adobe-ware. I ran into it this morning while trying to restart a piece of hardware that was being cranky. In my case, it was a mode-sensitive menu listing. The menu option needed to restart the hardware only works when one is in a specific other menu display.
* - doubtless, the wording can be improved but that's not my speciality, especially not mine for today.