Mike's In Trubble List

What is an In Trubble List?  It's my list of people, things, events, and other stuff that are unexcusably blowie, stupid, or otherwise bad.  For any reason.  The concept of an In Trubble list is explained on the SymVocab page.  A true In Trubble list only contains the names, without explanations, although for this list I will add explanations since you can't very well just walk over to my cube and ask me why some particular item is on my list.

Who's in trubble with me?

• Multiwave Computers*, for being a pathetic company, for having a sales rep that lies time after time, and for sending me the wrong amount of RAM and then saying it was my fault.  Avoid this company at all costs!
• Windows NT*, for being the biggest steaming pile of crap that I've ever had the displeasure of using, and also for hosing my partition table, making me waste nearly 2 days trying to salvage files of the one remaining partition that wasn't fully munched.
• Internet Exploiter* 3.01 and 3.02, not just for being a horrible browser, but also for opening and closing a billion handles on a local copy of a file during a download.
• NEC*, for their insane proprietary x86-based computers that have infected half of Japan.
• KCOP Channel 13* in Los Angeles, for moving Babylon 5 to Sunday morning at 5 AM without saying one single word that they were doing so, thus making me miss three of the last four shows of season four (those were the shows that wrapped up, oh, the whole damn show!).
• Internet Expoiter Active Setup, for taking the attitude of "software is smarter than the user" to the extreme. Active Setup is what you use to download add-ons for IE 4. But you can only do it by connecting to Microsoft's web site. You can't, say, download the files at work where you have a nice fast connection, stick 'em on a Zip disk, and take them home to install them there. Nooooo, that would mean that the user would actually have to have a clue about what they're doing.
• Netscape 4, for having tons of really really annoying bugs, crashing a lot, and generating crap HTML code.
• Babylon 5, for going to cable for its fifth and final season. I guess this means I'll have to (finally) get cable.
• Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, for being a pathetic movie riding the coattails of the suprisingly good first MK movie.
• The US Postal Service, for delivering my January 1998 issue of Next Generation magazine with a CD that was broken in half.

Note: * denotes a Lifetime Member of the In Trubble List.

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