The article AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible by John Hartnup on June 7, 2026 ('ERE I AM − JH!) is quite refreshingly helpful.

“The sharp-eyed are still going to recognise these as AI-generated, but they’re distinctive, and I think they’re not ugly.

“So that’s the moral − you don’t have to make posters that look like everyone else’s.

“There’s a further step − you don’t have to ask AI for posters as images that can’t be edited. Claude and Gemini can generate HTML, PNG, PDF, where the text is real text, layers are... [More]”

I have nine appointments in Outlook for which I want to set the category and the status (e.g., to “out of office”). Unlike the Apple Calendar, there is no way to select multiple appointments in the calendar. So, I searched for the appointments. In New Outlook, it shows the elements in a list on the left-hand side. So far, so good.

I cannot multi-select the search results, though. Nor can I apply any operations on an individual search result. The search items are just inert and only serve to... [More]

I gave the task a shot with the following prompt,

“Create a list of appointments that I can add to Outlook that pulls data from the attached table.

“Zimmer means “room”, so the room is 165D for on-site classes and “Zoom” means remote-learning classes. The title is the name of the module and is always the same, so use the title “HFU APP Entwicklung: Lesson ##” where ## is replaced with the lesson number.”

HFU APP Entwicklung appointments to be created

Copilot confidently responded,

“I created all nine appointments in your Outlook calendar.... [More]”

I have a timesheet in Excel. It wasn’t open. So, I wanted to open it. I hit the Windows key and typed “excel”. Windows struggled mightily and was unable to find anything.

Search Excel returns nothing in Windows Start Menu

I tried again.

This time it found just garbage.

Like, not even close.

Just wildly swinging for the fences.

Sentinel-LDK.zip

WTF. How does that even happen?

Search Excel returns garbage in Windows Start Menu

On a hunch, I tried to limit the search to “Apps”. No dice.

Windows Start Menu refuses to locate Excel

The application is installed.

When I typed the name of my document, it found it immediately and... [More]

So I was signing up for an account with ENISA’s SRP (European Union Agency for Cybersecurity Single Reporting Platform) so that I can report actively exploited vulnerabilities, should they occur in any of my company’s products.

This is what the first page looked like.

ENISA page 1

On the next page, both tabs were selected. What are they smoking? Have they ever used other apps before?

ENISA page 2

Something went wrong. The app didn’t feel obligated to let me know what, though.

ENISA unhelpful error message

It was left up to me to guess that... [More]

We have been here before, in 2021 and twice in 2025.

Fielmann's design continues to be terrible

The Fielmann web site continues to be an unadulterated train wreck.

I’ve deleted the private information from the screenshot, so there’s a bit more “whitespace” than in the original.

1. The fonts are unnecessarily tiny. This web site is made for customers who have trouble seeing. WTAF.
2. Look at how much whitespace there is! There is so much wasted space that could be filled with information, like the products that I’d ordered! Instead, the... [More]

I found this one-year-old article in my publication queue.

It’s time to order contact lenses again, so it’s time to bitch about the Fielmann web site. We have been here before, in 2021 and earlier this year in 2025

Fielmann is such a bad web site

• Check out the image above. This is a site for people who can’t see well, by definition. Look at that awesome contrast between the font color and the background. So professional.
• The tiny fonts in the check-out form are still there.
• Does it show my default payment option in the... [More]