I didn't say it was a *good* joke. Sorry about that.

I just couldn't put it together reading it.

I finally got around to calling Seagate about my random NAS problems and...they are problems! I'm glad there was actual human being technical support, because I'd kind of forgotten that happened for one off purchases, but then again, this was enough money that I couldn't just write it off and replace it.

It seems the AFP is broken, which explains why the old laptop stopped being able to connect via Time Capsule, but I can still (mostly) use it as a file share. He was less sure about the UPNP failure, which I just remembered at the last moment, and thinks that could be a router issue. But why would an untweaked router interfere with UPNP on only one device? I'll have to do more reading....but not until the new NAS comes.

New NAS comes. They're actually sending me a new one so I can copy from one to the other and send the troublesome one back--again something I wasn't expecting to go easily.

All of which makes me feel better about having spent my money with them, because they're treating me like a customer.

Yay. It's bad when it's shocking that you get good, helpful customer service.

I'm being shocked in the other direction by someone on IO9 who's trying to tell me that fixing your code so that it says 1 second instead of 1 seconds during a countdown is introducing dangerous levels of complexity and that the change is too expensive.

I've rather flippantly suggested hiring developers who can count, but why is a programmer (as he is) trying to defend against a bare minimum of professional communication? Even in the worst shops I've worked in, that error would not be permissible to deploy, with a certain assumption that it's not even something QA or UAT would send back--the developer is supposed to take care of that shit.

My requirements never say "grammatically correct" because there are a few things we take as ingrained, so we don't write them down, not because it's optional.

If {timeleft} ==1 then {word after timeleft} = "second"; else {word after timeleft} = "seconds"

....or am I missing something?

(Caveat: Not a professional programmer! Entirely possible I've introduced something dangerously complex here! Read at your own risk!)

I'd answer your question, Jessica, but it seems you've crashed the internet with your cavalier use of conditional plurals.

I'd like you to go to your room and think about what you've done.

There's a lesson here for all of us.

I...I'm sorry. This is why I can't have nice things, isn't it?

One nice things.

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Bwhaha!