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I have decided to take a break in the blog from the C128 and just go to a general blog today. The end of 2009 is less than 14 days away and I wanted to share my thoughts on the fast year in tech in general, like I do every ear at this time. I ussually go into my "predictions" for the next year, but the tech world is so screwed up right now, I predict that 2010 will bring more of the crap 2009 brought us. So I leave to you a few "Top 10" lists.

TOP 10 TECH things that I WISH would just die in 2010.
in no particular order.

10: The I-Phone- Come on people, wake up out of your zombie like state. There are much better phones on the market, and with the 'droid phones, no one is locked into Apple's hold of death on the apps.

9: Twitter- face it, no one cares what you are doing "Right now" and if the do, they are more pathetic than you for buying into the crap, than you are for posting it.

8: Facebook- There are so many things wrong with Facebook- active scripting, CIA involvement, every single application whats to take over your whole computer, privacy issues, etc. The next major virus to hit and possibly kill the Internet, will be launched through facebook. Also, do you actually have that much low self-esteem that you need 5000 friends that you would never talk to in the real world?

7: MySpace- Another hudge risk on security and just a very "Bad" Idea.

6: Lime Wire- 99% of all and I mean ALL viruses I deal with on a day to day basis come down through Lime Wire. People, just use a bit torrents.

5: Browser Tool bars- In a lot of software (Nero, Adobe etc) are trying to sucker people into installing a "asK" or "Yahoo" tool bar. It is not enough that firefox or IE has this built in to it. I just cringe ant the amount of flipping tool bars people have installed and wonder why they can't see the Internet, because they have 20 on the screen. Of course they have "No Idea" where it came from, or why their computer has spyware.

4: Laptop Touchpads- Yes, I said it. With all this "technology" we have to have SOMETHING BETTER than a useless touchpad that interferes with typing if you accidentally hit it. Even if manufactures moved it ABOVE the keyboard or to the actual side of the laptop, ANYwhere that its not going to interfear with typing (I myself have been actually working on this and drawing up designs- not that anyone cares mind you). God, just a simple blu-tooth mouse that slides in the laptop when not in use is a no brainer.

3: Useless applications that want to load at start-up:- Ok people, look down by your clock on your task bar. How many icons do you have? If the answer is more than 5, you need to really examine what needs to start up. WinZip, Acrobat reader, live-update, weather bug,nero -quickstart, Apple I tunes, Quick Time, the list goes on and on. How long must we put up with this BORG like mentality?
Half of my service calls are from people with slow boot times and they have all these useless programs running at start up, because they just don't know. If Microsoft asked me to help design the next Windows, I would insist that the Start-up be a "protected" mode and none of these would be able to infest the start up process.

2: "Live- Update" features: _one of my pet peaves is that "Live-update". Not only does it halt everything going on on your system to remind you that the latest and greatest version of the software is avalible, you must stop EVERYTHING you are doing and re-boot after it updates. Java is one of the worst for this. I have had DVD's transcodeing for 6 hours and crash, because Java wanted me to update. The worst part, 2 weeks later it wanted me to update again. WHO THE HELL cares about it, when I want to update, I will go to Java and update it myself. I don't need to be reminded every frickin 5 minutes, when I am trying to work.

1: "Busy" Websites - This is websites with so much stuff on the front page, you can't find what you are looking for. This may be ads, or what the website can do for you, but, if there is too much shit on the front page, it will turn people off. GO-DADDY.com is famous for this. I use Go-daddy for my domain names, and all that shit even leave my head spinning. Go-daddy makes enough money, why not hire a REAL website designer and have even more Business.



There are much more I would love to add to this list, but I cut it off at 10.