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Microsoft Excel 2003 (or at least the copy I was stuck with) had a weird bug where if the final column of a CSV spreadsheet with headers was empty (column header there but no data) then the outputted CSV file would only contain the correct amount of commas for affected rows up until the 16th line before it just started discounting the commas to indicate an empty field at the end of the table.

This would cause all sorts of errors with the program I had to upload the files to.

My only work around was a series of Regex based find and replaces in Notepad++, I could have perhaps scripted something automatic but I was on a very locked down machine at the time.

It was one of many weird MS Office bugs I had on a A3 sheet pinned to my cubicle wall.

(Early 20s, UK Citizen & Resident) Yes, some physical friends have been met though FB but mostly it's been hugely instrumental in developing existing relationships (99% by messaging). No job offers but I have personally provided job opportunities through it. The last 5 social events I've been to (party, festivals) have been arranged through group messaging on FB's Messenger.

Company town 10 years ago

Were the shops and local conveniences (pubs, bars etc) company owned & run or contacted out to other companies? How free was a private business able to establish a means of supplying services to those who lived and worked in the town?

I've not had a yellow notebook for a long time, but in my view right now I have 5 stacks of yellow sticky-pads (aka post-it notes), some of which are A5, notebook sized.

When I buy cheap recycled-paper notebooks the paper is often off-white and has a yellow look to it. At least to me; yellow implies disposability or cheapness.

For me the old yellow colour implies that the notes taken within the app are for easy disposal and will be poorly organised - just like how yellow paper is used primarily for quick throw-away notes and scribbles in reality (at least here in the UK).

The Notes app is far better than that, the white it uses now implies a more permanent organised feel which better reflects the app. The texts I store within it are important to me, they're not final documents but something I'd treat better than a disposable scribble on a yellow-pad. With the app's formatting, cloud and folder abilities this seems a good fit.

You got lucky getting by with only 2 issues, I've lost count and since abandoned the OS.

When I upgraded my 8GB RAM, i7 machine (what should be a decent bit of kit) I experienced continual problems.

Sound drivers would just stop working, the OS would completely forget that there were even speakers. The cause would always change and there would always be a different, stressful, time consuming fix. This was not an uncommon problem, I found myself in a large crowd with these faults.

Later I found myself joining plenty others in losing networking abilities after forced updates. My WiFi drivers would vanish and intermittently reappear, pretty much like the sound issue.

Every update MS pushed led to another time-sucking issue to patch up, I would dread the next update.

The continual problems caused by Windows 10 made me go out and buy a Mac. I don't want anything to do with Windows anymore. After suffering through the Windows Phone, Windows 8 and now Windows 10 I'm completely done with MS. It's so sad to see the company just turn itself to trash, I used to be a huge fan.

Gimp 2.9.4 Released 10 years ago

Those all could mean other things, Gimp afaik only has a "dirty" meaning. I've never liked mentioning it and always wondered why they'd stick with a name like that.

I loved it until I hit save and saw the monster of a URL it returned.

These URLs aren't something I'd be able to quickly tap in on another device to save messing about with accounts & logins. If the URLs became short and/or pronounceable I'd use this service daily.