ttj - Tom Jones

Amazon have still not fixed their 500 Internal Server issue, despite my clear root cause analyses. Customer puts thing in basket.  Customer changes delivery address, in this case from UK to Guernsey.  Amazon falls over with 500 Internal Server Error. As noted elsewhere, Jeff Bezos is notorious for asking for a root-cause analysis for every issue. Let's separate things into PRCA and DRCA.  That is proximal root-cause analysis, and distal root-cause analysis, respectively. The proximal root cause is that Amazon is failing to handle some cases where a basket's shipping address is changed from a location that the basket can be shipped to, to a location that the basket can not be shipped to. The distal root cause is that Jeff Bezos is retarded.

I went to a post office and paid to redirect my post from a family member's address, who hosts my UK mail address, to my Guernsey office. I've done this maybe 4 times before since leaving the UK, and it's always worked fine.  This time, all post for the address got redirected, not just for me, even tho that's not how I filled in the form.  Royal Mail make themselves almost impossible to contact, but I completed some online "contact form".  Got no email acknowledgement.  Sent two items in the post, one should be redirected, the other delivered as addressed, wrote clear notes to this effect on the fronts of the envelopes.  Both got delivered instead of one.  Now, none of my post is being redirected, but at least the householder is receiving their post. Apparently there is a "dedicated redirection contact form".  Okay, under this dialog the page navigates to the redirection contact form.  But I was hovering over "dedicated redirection form" te...

 barclays branches now close at 15:00 (and open at 9:30)

  Here's an error from airbnb. Note the cheesy denial that anything has failed.  "Let's try that again".  Oh, everything sounds fine.  I mean, I don't have a house booked, and I'm one hour of hard admin into trying to have a house booked, but nothing's really gone wrong, it's just let's try that again. Followed by "There is something wrong with your Host's calendar".  At this point they are not my Host, and it looks like they're not going to be my Host.  They are someone who listed something on your web site, and the booking failed, so "your Host" is rather a stretch.  But this putative Host, it is their fault.  There is something wrong with their calendar.  Whatever is wrong with "Host"'s calendar, sounds like it was impossible to detect before I went through the payment process.  At the point where I don't know if payment's been taken from my card or not, there is now "something wrong with yo...

This is obvious, right? Multiple Document Interfaces, including tabbing like in browsers, should be a window manager function, not a per-application function.  So, why isn't it?  Anywhere, at all? Meanwhile, the world moves even further away from the correct layering.  Craplications like chromium now do their own window decorations and controls.  Some GNOME things don't even seem to be X windows any more.  WTF is going on?