Websites Pet Peeve

It's a small thing -- TOO small a thing. Why is it that web designers insist on making the "logout" link on nearly every website so TINY and hard to find? We're supposed to log out of sites we have logged into, and you'd think they'd want us to follow through with that for our own security, but they sure make it harder. It should be easy to find a logout button or link. Not only easy, OBVIOUS. Logging IN isn't hidden in miniscule text. Logging IN gets nice text boxes, prominence.

Plain old logic and business sense teaches us that if you want people to do something, make it easy for them. So, web designers, make logging out EASY.

Hotels and laundering towels

Many hotels I've been in the past few years have laudably posted signs that we can help the environment (and their costs, of course) by using towels more than one day, that if we wish to do that, to hang up the towels. If we want fresh towels, to leave them on the floor. However, I have found that at just about everyone, even IF I hang them up, the maids STILL change them for fresh towels. I don't know whether this is a training issue or a language issue, or whether something else is at work, but the signs aren't working.

The other thing that prevents it from being a successful campaign is the lack of good towel racks to hang the towels ON. Most hotels have these skimpy racks that work fine for folded towels but are lousy for hanging wet towels that need to be dried. There's never enough space for them. I imagine more people would be willing to use the same towels the next day if they thought they had a prayer of drying. I've even tried hanging them on hangers in the closet, when there were ENOUGH hangars, another rarity.

So, there's one of my pet peeves. If they really want this campaign to be successful, save water (a critical issue here in Florida where we are in the midst of a drought), save money, and benefit the environment, they need to train their maids to FOLLOW the rules and put decent towel bars in the rooms.

I think I've written about this before, on this blog, and I've sent it to Ann Landers or Dear Abby, too. Maybe someone will "listen."

Where did the ambition go?

I have sadly neglected this blog in the past year, dealing with my son's death, writing a daily blog about him and our experiences, our sadness, at his death. In January, I posted here that I felt a renewed ambition, but it did not last. I remained committed to the blog about him, not to continuing this one about other subjects. I still am focused on his remembrance blog and probably will be for a long time to come.

That doesn't mean I don't think about anything else, that I don't have opinions about the current political scene, world events, local news. It does mean there isn't energy enough and time to do both, not for now. So, although I may post from time to time, it won't be consistent, though I hope that that day will come.