On this tiny UMPC I’ve been using, when windows has decided it’s time to let me know that it isn’t connected to a wireless network (I haven’t turned on the wifi card, but still, I should know it isn’t connected), the message often covers part of what I’m working on, interrupting what I’m doing until I close it or wait for it to go away.
I liken it to, say, if you’re rushing to get out of the house to go to a meeting, working to get your jacket on while getting the door open, and a wall in front of the door suddenly blocks your way to tell you that the dishwasher is done.
January 18th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Come on now, you’re talking about my hyper smart flagging system I just install in my house like it’s a bad thing. Mind you it’s for the washing machine and drier and an alarm if the pH gets off on the house plant’s soil, not the dishwasher. Actually, I can see how the dishwasher might be a bad idea. But still, the blaring horns and locking of all my doors when something is a bit acidic is, I think, a perfectly proper function in my home.