beware's annoyances

this is about things which bother me. i will add more things later. the problem is usually of a technical/exact kind: things which are less usable, or non-conformant, etc, because of a pointless design decision, or lack of caring/understanding/knowledge.

fansubbed anime episode sizes
tft flatpanel aspect ratio
image set rar archives
video editing mistakes
AA batteries
dark blue dvds
pronunciation spelling
/64 prefix

Pages i sympathise with:

an odd spacing between two connector headers on an arduino makes it difficult to interface with them from a prototype PCB
ISO8601 date/time, "A remark for readers from the U.S."
The Death Of Dynamic Range - loudness wars and clipping on audio CD's
IBM PC Real Time Clock should run in UT (note he means UTC where he says UT)
ISO paper sizes (A4, etc), and the fact that only the US doesn't widely use them
When Apache and UTF-8 Fight
mozilla thunderbird and UTF-8
OpenOffice.org Calc forces date editing in U.S. notation
How to Set Up Firefox 7 to Restore the Classic Look
Why is 1 GB equal to 10^9 bytes instead of 2^30?
Gigabit and 10-gig Ethernet fiber SFP slots and lock-in: Don't buy Cisco, Extreme, 3Com, HP, or Intel gear
/dev/random and the "running out of entropy" myth
No 'inverted T'? no thanks - on imposing arbitrary design changes (and regressions) onto customers
Desktop compositing latency is real and it annoys me

feedback, suggestions, etc, are welcome: