Bug on bug

while sending a patch to pidgin, I came across these two cutting edge -- next generation bugs. Smart ones, intelligent. Have a look ---

What the hell Ron Paul has to do with pidgin ??

And this is classic one. When I give you the best of juice from the most rare tree of the garden, they came back and say -- hey ya actually now I am used to others and like it more.

There were long discussions and numerous request on pidgin to provide "Escape' as shortcut key for closing a conversation (through UI). After sometime, they finally pulled that in 2.4.2 release.

But then someone came up with this bug: God knows what was his intenti... or may be God doesn't know.

Adieu ...

WTF

Last weekend, I thought I did well enough to survive to come office after being hit by some crappy internet experience. And when I thought I escaped, I caught up by traffic police.

Not much harm though. 100 bucks and it was over !!!
So here are few classic one's I faced last weekend:

I guess yahoo messenger has forgot its own address to download full messenger.


Yes, I need to remember that. Wish they should say "Remember to remember to remember your password!

Never thought there are so many. In the next version they might have two drop down option as select gender 1. Guy & 2. Male!!

How many cats do you see. And how many letters with cat??

And the most classic one

I think their idea for confirmation code is to save from those who cann't write automated scripts for arithmetical expression. A neck to neck battle with this classic.

Grr .... Guess I need a another break.

Deleting coments

I hope you already know how to delete comments from your post. That makes sense on analogy with human communication .

The other day I was trying to delete a comment (some casual one's) which I posted on someone's blog. Surprisingly to me, my comment got deleted instantly. You may find it useful, but my instinct that its a basic use case problem.

1) Making a analogy with man-2-man communication, deleting a comment is like taking your word back, like say "Nope, I don't want that". But it depends how others react. Some say "Whatever, mark your word", others say "Its okay". So point is when I delete my posted comment, it should send a notification to author for confirmation, cause once you post a comments, words belongs to post. You have control until you post.

2) Deleting immediately can make the complete comments thread senseless. Confirmation to author can help in reducing this. For the least, author may wish to remove the comments that are related to "to-be-deleted" one.

3) Taking about blogger, deleting a comments leaves a message. Something like "Post is deleted by author". That's really ugly.

What's you say ??

Now I need to look for ways to repost my comment at the same place :(

[Yeah, no liner in this post, now you know its not easy ;-) ]

Added at 11:47 PM:
And blogger doesn't even say who has deleted that message!!