Bigbro's foray into the scary world of blogging
I live in Dublin and occasionally make use of the M50 motorway, which means I am forced to succumb to the arbitrary and ill conceived notion to make it 'barrier-free.' This evening, I decided I would register my credit card with them, so that they could deduct a toll from me on the rare occasions I traverse their toll plaza. I should not have bothered.
The webpage appears to be designed with some heinous AJAX type architecture, which sends queries back to the server depending on what details you enter. Of course, they've got the whole concept woefully wrong! Instead of allowing me to continue to enter my details - the whole point of using an asynchronous framework like AJAX - it locks the webpage and places a useless and meaningless 'Update in Progress' spinning timer in the centre of the screen. Perhaps since I'm accessing the site over a 3G connection, or perhaps because the website creators are morons, I have now been waiting over 5 minutes for the latest 'Update in Progress' ticker to go away. All in all, there are approximately 44 fieldson the page, of which roughly 35 are required. This should take a little over 120 seconds to fill in - but it looks like I'm going to lose patience for the second time this evening and just close my browser once more, having spent over 20 minutes waiting for the stupid 'Update in Progress' dialog to go away.
Dear criminal masterminds who screw us with M50 tolls, please at least have the decency to FIRE to idiots who failed completely to design your website and have the common courtesy to make paying your exorbitant charges at least a painless experience.
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