The second real irritation I have been dealing with is the stupid bar auto-hides if you have a window maximized. It’s not the auto-hiding that is so irritating: rather it is when I move the mouse close to the left edge of the screen to do something, usually in Thunderbird, that the bar comes out again from the side and covers up whatever I am trying to work on. To turn it off Click System and Settings, then in the Personal section, click Launcher & Menus. Change the behavior so that it only comes out when you point to the top left corner fo the screen. Seems to be a little better now.

For a few brief moments it appeared the city was getting its act together and going really well into the future. The web page listed on a USPS post card for registration directs us to http://cityoffortwayne.org/publicworks/solid-waste-management/one-cart-recycling-program.html to sign up for the new recycling totes. Great idea — do it electronically and save lots of wasted effort. The initial page looks clean, professional, and displays properly in browsers which conform to International standards.

BUT when you click on Register you are taken to the “Microsoft Only” web site that demands you install the obsolete Silverlight browser that Microsoft is said to be sidelining or dropping altogether in favor of HTML v5.

Sooooooo, leading edge early adopter technology people who have long since left Microsoft behind for Apple, Unix, or Linux are excluded.