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Not much along the lines of creative thinking for this blog has happened in my mind as of late. Guess there are just some days that are more conducive to random thinking than others - the past week or so has not been so. Still, I find myself feeling like I need to post something - no reason really. Not too many people read the blog regularly, so there really isn't all that much of a point to post. Still, it gives me something to do, I suppose.

On the computer, I'm all about the shortcuts and things that make navigation and manipulation easier. The right-click menu is awesome. What's not awesome, however, is unconformity with natural trends. -- That sure did sound like a load of BS -- What I'm trying to say is, different programs doing different things with context menus that one expects to be globally the same. Even though I said "what I'm trying to say is..." I still didn't get any clearer in what I was trying to explain - I'll need to work on that.

So, I like to use "Right-Click -> Close" from the Start bar a lot. It's very convenient, you right click the item and move the mouse just a tad and then left click. Simple! Yay! Window DESTROYED! Very satisfying. This kind of thing seems very standard, does it not? I would venture to say 90-95% of windows applications use this convention. By now, it just looks natural, right? Sure there are other weird ones that don't have a maximize button, or a downsize button. But the "X Close Alt+F4" option is still in the same place.

What gets me is those non conformers. I'm all about freedom of expression and creativity and all that jazz. But when it comes to something as structured and mechanical as a computer - some things are better meant to be universally the same.
What happened! AAAAAAH! Here are some examples of where things start to break down.

• I'll go to close WinPAR: BOOM new selection list. What? No, that was supposed to remove things from my screen, not add stuff!
• This next one irks me off very much and very often. (cygwin does the same, which I suppose is because it uses the same Windows shell interface.... or something) I go to close a command window, and whaddya know! A properties window pops up! Again, the opposite effect that I was expecting. Window close vs. Spawn window.
• And then there's the old-fashioned Help windows. Yeah yeah, things have moved on to different types of help windows... Why do we need to know ABOUT the help window? It gives us help when we're retarded-imean stuck.
  
• I don't have it any longer, but the old Creative Surround Mixer utility did the same thing as the Help window I showed. Information about the application - whoop-dee-doo.

That's all I have for today. I was going to talk about why single stall bathrooms still need a female or male sign on the door. Especially at a work office where the majority of employees are male. It just seems counter productive to have the same amount of "female" as "male" bathrooms when the inside of the bathrooms are exactly the same (Ok, so maybe half are the mirror image of the other half. big deal.)

Until I think of better things to share. Enjoy Life!