It is frustrating. Most of the times it would be so easy to fix. What the hell did the developers think about while implementing those “features”?

1. Peoplesoft: Click OK to cancel, and cancel to continue…

Well, this might have a reason: Users don’t read message boxes and if they just click on OK there is less impact and perhaps they’ll read the message box on the second attempt.

2. Oracle Enterprise Manager Console (10.2.0)

It is unbelievable. Under Storage -> Tablespaces you can manage the datafiles. If you select one of the datafiles and press the delete key, the whole tablespace will be emptied! (No, the datafiles won’t be removed.)

Intuitive!

3. F-Spot: Shifting EXIF dates on import

Per default, on importing photos the date time in the EXIF data is changed. This is due to the timezone and F-Spot tries to convert the time to UTC. But as the timezone isn’t kept anywhere, F-Spot will change the EXIF time again, if you reimport the photos. On the top of that, the conversion to UTC time fails under certain conditions (related to daylight saving time and so on).

As F-Spot is the only application converting EXIF dates and assuming UTC in the EXIF data of the imported files, it is creating a kind of application lock-in. All other applications you’ll use to show/edit your photos will display the wrong time…

See this bug report for more information.