Would you not? Yes or No?

Below is a screenshot of a website (odnoklassniki.ru), which demonstrates a wonderful UI principle of confusing the user. It translates: "Confirmation: Do you, really, not want to receive notifications of the changes in the group? [Yes] [No]"..



I remember, I knew exactly what I wanted before I was asked... Now I'm not so sure, really :-)

Virtual Machito

Vista can be puzzling at times.. For example, while I was copying files from "D:\Virtual Machines" directory, it caught my eye that the progress dialog was showing something else - "D:\Virtual Machito":



Very cute :-)

Google "facker"

While signing up for a new Google account, I was asked, as a proof that I'm human, to enter a Captcha-word "facker":



Hilarious.. and just facking-awesome! :-)

PicasaWeb sucks (life out of photographs)

I had a long-running suspicion that images uploaded to PicasaWeb don't look good in the browser when viewed at full zoom (via the tiny "zoom" button). Finally, I got some proof. Here is the small crop of a 2400x1600 photograph:



As you can see, the image presented by PicasaWeb in the browser lost its sharpness and detail. The results are quite disappointing... Could this be the right time to move to Flickr?