In Spain, bank accounts have twenty digits, two of which represent the check digits (known in Spanish as "Digito de Control"). The purpose of a check digit is to perform a validation of a value. In this case, we have four digits representing the bank, four representing the branch, ten for the actual account number and last but definitely not least, the two check digits. It's important to have them since you can often get confused why typing in twenty numbers and find you've incorrectly put in a two instead of a three. You don't want the 1M€ to be transferred to the wrong account.

Now any good system should verify the check digit and notify the user if it's incorrect. That's what my bank does. However, mine goes one step further. It actually tells me what the correct control digit is!!! @#!??!¡%$&. Only one scenario comes to mind where that would be useful. Otherwise I think it can cause more harm than good.

[Translation: the check digit is incorrect. It should be 41]

I've been having extremely bad pain in the joint that joins my thumb with the rest of my hand. I didn't realize what it was until a couple of days ago. Turns out that I can blame it on computers. I've been working a lot on my laptop lately. Actually I work on my laptop 100% of the time, but most of the times I plug in an external keyboard and screen. However, in the past month or so I've been using the device's keyboard itself. The other day it hit me why I was having this excruciating pain. It's because of the way I use my thumb to get to the right shift and cursor keys. Turns out, as shown in the wonderful diagram below, I bend my thumb under my hand to get to the keys instead of using my right pinky for the shift and moving my whole hand down to get to the other keys. Using my thumb has made me extremely fast with the keyboard.

My pain problem is that right now, as stupid it as it may seem, it's extremely hard to get rid of the habit. So I really feel like Homer every time I repeat the same movement and cringe in pain. Doh!

So, if you're like me, don't do this movement. Stop it before it starts to hurt, literally!

Halfway through the install, I get prompted with the following

I checked, only one instance of the setup (/installer) running. Tough call!

Not the first negative comment I've heard on the Zune, but by far the most entertaining! Check it out here