Four dumb things I found this week

It’s only Tuesday, and I’ve already seen four things which make me think “that’s dumb”.

1. I first saw this last week I think, but I noticed it again this week and thought I’d blog it. I noticed that a bus stop along West Barnes Lane (which is part of my daily route to work) had been moved … but the shelter hadn’t been demolished, and there is still a big red box on the road with “BUS STOP” in big letters on the ground. So people think it’s a bus stop. And they try and flag buses down there, and guess what? Yep, the buses fly by leaving the people wondering why the bus didn’t stop.
2. I finally got my new phone which had been sent through “Special Delivery”, run by the Royal Mail as opposed to a courier company. Not that it would make all that much difference, as I’ve worked for courier firms and they are not always as efficient as you’d think (given that they have names like DHL …). But the postman tried to deliver it on Saturday morning, but I was in Croydon having my hair cut, and my Mum was in bed. When I tried to pick it up, they told me the postman was still out on his round, but that the sorting office would be open until 1pm. And guess what … it actually closed at 12.
3. The phone is an LG C2200, which is one of these amazingly “feature-laden” new generation phones, complete with camera. I personally find it annoying, over-complicated and gimmicky. I cannot easily find the way to change the ring-tone, for example. And I can’t find any easy way to get pictures (like the one of the bus shelter without a bus stop in West Barnes Lane) off the phone and onto my computer. I can forward them to other phone users, but there does not seem to be a way of getting them onto my computer. I gave the phone to my Mum.
4. The new edition of Linux Format is out. Linux Format is my favourite computer mag. But guess what’s on the cover disk? On the DVD, Fedora Core 3 (which has already been on the front of Linux Magazine). On the CD, Ubuntu (also to be found on the cover of Linux User & Developer magazine). Isn’t that dumb, given that there’s no edition without the CD or DVD?