{"id":121,"date":"2008-09-20T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/lisa\/post\/2008\/09\/20\/Funny-or-not-you-tell-me.aspx"},"modified":"2008-09-20T15:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T15:42:00","slug":"funny-or-not-you-tell-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/2008\/09\/20\/funny-or-not-you-tell-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Funny or not, you tell me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nWhat is it about me and <a href=\"\/lisa\/2008\/04\/27\/Well-you-cant\/\" title=\"blog post about help in VBA editor\">attempts to get help<\/a> from Microsoft-hosted applications?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nC and I are moving house and I was trying to get my MSDN subscription address information updated on line last week.&nbsp; I wanted to find out when the last order shipped, to make sure I made the change at the right time.&nbsp;&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI often&nbsp;have a little &lt;cough&gt; trouble interpreting instructions in these dialogs. This time, I ventured a guess that I was not alone and that&nbsp;pressing the FAQ button&nbsp;was a good idea.&nbsp; But here&#39;s what I got:\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 550px; height: 299px\" src=\"\/lisa\/wp-non\/migrated\/WISMO+-+too+funny.png\" alt=\"Too funny for its own good\" title=\"Too funny for its own good\" width=\"550\" height=\"299\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\nThere are at least two things I find amusing about this screenshot.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\nThe first has to do with the name (WISMO) of the application, the difference between the type of response and helpfulness that the name implies, and what I actually experienced.&nbsp;&nbsp;When I pressed FAQ, in happy optimism, and got this error instead&#8230; all I could think of was some lines from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Incredibles\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Incredibles rocks!\" rel=\"noopener\">one of my favorite movies<\/a> &#8230;\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: large\">WHERE&#8230;<\/span> is&#8230; my&#8230; <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: large\">ORDER<\/span> ?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: large\">WHY<\/span> do you want to <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: large\">KNOW<\/span> ?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\nThe second thing has to do with the &quot;MS-hosted part&quot;, and the lack of branding thereof, in the error page.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\nMaybe&nbsp;MS should stick to using applications they know how to configure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it about me and attempts to get help from Microsoft-hosted applications? C and I are moving house and I was trying to get my MSDN subscription address information updated on line last week.&nbsp; I wanted to find out when the last order shipped, to make sure I made the change at the right<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/2008\/09\/20\/funny-or-not-you-tell-me\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-techspeak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}