Soap Box

This is where I complain about some of my pet peeves, and declare how things ought to be done.

• Half-Thumbs Voting lets each voter cast a vote or a half-vote for or against each candidate.

• U.S. Supreme Court justice replacement is too affected by chance and manipulation. I propose smoothing it out.

• The California energy crisis is the result of the state meddling with the market.

• Ambiguity in units of information (like megabytes) is unfortunately a lost cause.

• The modern English convention for surnames is burdensome and unfair. I propose a new convention.

• Quoting messages in replies is a great idea, when a small amount of care is exercised.

• Every URL that names a directory should end with a trailing slash.

• What is a “home page”?

• Why does everyone make “no” signs backwards?

• Quite a while back I cooked up an example of HTML-Abuse.

Prepared by Adam M. Costello  Last modified: 2022-Nov-10-Thu 03:07:49 GMT