Rants About Software

Updated on August 4, 2009 by Errornix

Wow, I never would have thought that I would write a title like THAT on this site.  But low and behold, I did experience a brief Google FAIL.

I was checking my Gmail from within my iGoogle page, and for some reason the search bar/header appeared both at the top and where my inbox should have been. At first, I thought maybe this was some kind of refresh problem, but both search boxes were fully-functional. Weird. I'm not sure what happened, but a simple refresh fixed it - end of fail.

Note: In case you're wondering, I'm using the PHP Coder iGoogle theme.

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A guy at work showed this to me. Now I don't know who developed the website for Dick's Sporting Goods, but apparently they've worked with plenty of other retailers as well. This is made apparent by the fact that whoever developed the site, is using the same database to store product information for all of their clients! How do I know this? I know this because you can search for plenty of non-sporting goods right on Dick's website! Try this search for televisions to see what I mean.

Next time I need to buy some home electronics, I'm going to do it through Dick's website. It's bound to confuse someone in the sales department.

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I recently started using Pandora, and so far, I love it (especially since Sirius got rid of the Punk Channel)! So I was listening to Pandora at the work the other day when I noticed that someone apparently made this data entry mistake...

Obviously "All Hallow's EP" by AFI is not the same thing as the "Winning London" soundtrack.

The thing that's weird about this is that it used to display the correct image. So apparently someone at Pandora was doing some data entry and somehow managed to screw up a record somewhere. I guess it's understandable, but it's still annoying. Oh well.

By the way, you can check out my Pandora profile here.

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