I just threw away about 6 hours of work by forgetting that Excel likes to sort just the selected column rather than the entire row. (I use Excel about once every two years, except this time it’s the first time in about four years, so excuse me for letting this little quirk slip past me.)
This was in the midst of inventorying a collection of fire bottles (“valves” to you Brits) as I carefully wrapped and packed them, so now I have to do it all over again.
This is one of those incredibly boneheaded decisions we all know and love, that made Microsoft the biggest and most influential software company in the history of the world.
The really funny part is that I almost did this as a table in Access, which I’m far more familiar with. But, no, I thought, Excel is a bit simpler, and I won’t have to waste time creating a table layout…. I’ve learned my lesson. Access would never, ever sort a given field without sorting the records it was in as well.
Ah, that other problem I mentioned, about my laptop throwing away Firefox tabs? I think it has to do with forgetting to turn off the touchpad when using an external mouse.
Here’s a funny thing about using my Logitech wireless via USB mouse with my Toshiba Satellite laptop: I have to be careful to turn the mouse off before stowing it, because if the mouse is on, any movement will cause the damn thing to wake up after I’ve put it in hibernation with the On/Off button.
Intolerable, Tosh. If I’ve pressed a button, or even clicked an icon, to put my machine in hibernation, I want it to stay there until I do something very damn deliberate, like pressing that button again.
Attention FTC: I would like to thank Linus Torvald, Dell Computers, and Kensington for their generous contributions in support of this review.