Guess this one. When I woke up in the morning today, what do you think was this first thing I did? That’s right, I tried wearing a necktie.

If that sounded strange to you, try having a dream in which you attempted to wear a necktie for an hour, but couldn’t get it on right. The fact that the necktie was a part of my old secondary school uniform might have made things worse. And if that wasn’t enough, the darned thing, inexplic­ably, had four possible ‘front parts’ — one design for each school ‘house’ — and the wrong one kept turning up at the fore every time.

I’ve heard that dreams are the brain’s way of preparing for possi­bil­i­ties. I am fairly certain I won’t be wearing something like that any time soon.

And in case you are wondering, I succeeded in tying the perfect knot (in reality) on my very first attempt.

Web pages try to make life easier for website visitors. There are, however, instances where this is Bad Thing.

Take for example, login pages. Many sites use Javascript to automat­i­cally focus the cursor in the ‘Username’ text box as soon as the page loads. But sometimes, the page loads slowly, and the user may have started typing a username and password even as the rest of the page is loading. The result is that the cursor jumps to the ‘Username’ text box when the password is being typed — which means that if the user didn’t notice, the password (or at least part of it) gets typed in the ‘Username’ box, in plain view of the nasty folks looking over his shoulder.