Coming back from a meeting yesterday, I was lost in thought on where to go next. Do I go to another client's offsite location to supervise a situation? Or do I go back to the office to plan what to do next? I snapped back to reality just in time to see a Toll gate closing down RIGHT IN FRONT of me!

I slammed on the brakes like what any other person who just realized he was about to smash through a toll gate. NOT FAST ENOUGH THOUGH! My wheels locked, the car skidded a bit and smashed into the toll gate. From the force of the impact the toll gate swung from a 9'O clock position to a 12'O clock position.

I reversed back to the toll booth, the operator looked at me wide eye and asked me what the fark was my problem? I told her nicely that it was an accident, I paid the toll and drove off.

This morning, on the advice of a friend I called the toll operator to see if they'd file a police report about the accident or not. After being given the run around in their automated telephone directory system I was finally talking to a real person. I told the guy I've got a problem... I accidentally bumped one of your toll gates yesterday and I want to know if everything's ok? The guy's response? "Oh.. it's not a problem, is your car ok sir? It is? That's good to hear sir, have a nice day!"

And with that call.. I'm in a much more calmer state, but I still need a vacation or I think I'm gonna go crazy!

This is not how I want to find out that my mosquito zapper bat hasn't been killing mosquitos.

Look at all the marks!

As I stated before in my post about Citibank's INSANE security features, sometimes being TOO secure just ends up frustrating the users. Here's another example of security that *might* be a bit too much.

A Silverlight plugin is able to go into fullscreen mode and basically fully takeover the display of your system. Therefore in order to ensure that people aren't able to easily spoof you  into thinking you're actually visiting your bank's website or anything like that... well I'll just paste the paragraph from the docs.

Once a Silverlight plugin is displayed in full-screen mode, keyboard events are prevented from being passed on to keyboard event handlers in the application. The only valid keyboard input that is acted upon is the set of keystrokes that return the Silverlight plugin to embedded mode. This limitation of keyboard input during full-screen mode is a security feature, and is intended to minimize the possibility of unintended information being entered by a user.

In english it basically means that when the Silverlight plugin is in fullscreen mode, all keyboard input is disabled. Drastic? YES. The scary part about this is that, I actually think it's a GOOD idea, cause it basically means the user won't be presented with a screen where they think they're logging into the bank and then just merrily key in their username and password.

Yes, they could just present the user with a soft keyboard but hopefully the user's are smart enough to realise that they keyboard isn't working at all so something must be up.

Would you rather there be a constant watermark when Silverlight is in fullscreen mode to tell people they're viewing a plugin and not their actual desktop?

Today after I came back from work as a fugitive my mother told me something that just added to my problems.

She heard WZ crying through the baby monitor and thus ran into the room and saw... NOTHING on the bed. But she could hear WZ crying, she got down on the floor and found WZ sulking UNDER the bed. Yup.. WZ fell OUT of the bed. Strange thing was that there were no marks on his body indicating how he fell off.

At night just night while I played with WZ on the bed I noticed that if he timed his flailing of his arms properly he'd catch the edges of the bed railing and thus be able to push himself over the railing and onto FREEDOM!!! Freedom followed by a fall to the concrete floor below that is....

Shit.... I don't need this right now!!

Oh god... now I've done it!!! I'm now a fugitive on the run, running from a most heinous crime!! My friend recommends that I go turn myself in or face the consequences.

Fark!