MJ Ray wrote about a couple of things which puzzled him a while back…
Here are a couple of things that puzzle me.
1. Templates
Why is the ~/Templates/ directory empty on a default Ubuntu install? If there is a sensible reason, by all means comment and tell me. But if you right-click on the Desktop or somewhere in Nautilus you’re able to create a folder, or a document but since the Templates directory is empty, you can only create an empty file. What use is that?
sionide@zombie:~$ ls /home/sionide/Templates/
OpenOffice Calc.ods OpenOffice Math.odf Text Document.txt
OpenOffice Draw.odg OpenOffice Writer.odt
OpenOffice Impress.odp Shell Script.sh
As you can see, my Templates directory is full of files, they’re just filenames really - it’s the extension which counts and means that the “Create document” menu is filled with those file types as options of files I can create.. Seems silly to ship with a feature kind of half missing.
2. Bluetooth
I’ve already discussed this, so Bluetooth is supported out of the box but not properly. A pretty normal use case isn’t catered for meaning that from what I can tell, you have to install a few other things before it’ll let you send or receive files from another bluetooth device. It’s another half-a-feature..
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Perhaps these are ideas I should submit to the Ubuntu Brainstorm 
Time for the first of many rants on sionide.net, inspired after finding this rather interesting little gem on Facebook…
http://www.facebook.com/mobile/?phonebook
and I wish more people knew about it! I don’t know how many times I’ve been invited to those ridiculous groups where some bumbling fool has lost or had their mobile stolen or dropped it down the toilet and so requires everyone’s phone numbers. If you ever want to have a drunken laugh prank calling people at 4am, go on Facebook search for “phone numbers” and narrow the search to Groups only. Displaying 1 - 10 out of over 500 group results for: phone numbers Yes, people actually post their supposedly private phone numbers on publicly available web pages?! Dial 141 followed by a random phone number and tell whoever picks up they’re an idiot for posting their number on Facebook.
Years ago, you’d need to purchase an odd looking gadget to backup the contents of your sim card. These days, phones are smart, they can connect to the Internet and back themselves up! But I appreciate not everyone is going to bother with backing up.
So if everyone used the built-in mobile phonebook feature of Facebook, put their mobile numbers on their profile and restricted that information to Friends Only (assuming, of course, people don’t actually friend randoms) then the world social network would be a much better place.
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