I just do not get it. Just because logically the province is usually written before the country, it does not imply it is a good idea to blindly follow convention when implementing an address capture form.

Forcing people to first select a province (which is defaulted to the list of provinces based on the defaulted country), is meaningless for everyone not living in the defaulted country. And no America - you are NEITHER the only country in the world NOR the biggest. I always have to scroll past province, then select my country, then scroll back up to province and change it.

Country should be first. Then province. Stop this madness.

I just received an email from LinkedIn, with this paragraph:

LinkedIn has taken significant steps to strengthen account security since 2012. For example, we now use salted hashes to store passwords and enable additional account security by offering our members the option to use two-step verification.

The problem with this statement, though very beneficial to someone like me, is pretty useless for anyone not familiar with cryptography. Do you know why "salted hashes" are better than "normal hashes"? I bet 99% of the population that received that email, do not know the difference. If I were them, I'd rephrase it as:

• Dishonesty
• Lack of integrity

I recently came across this website selling time tracking & billing software. What drew my attention was when I scrolled to the bottom section "What others say about us". I immediately recognized the style of photography as being stock portraits. Initially I wanted to perform a Google image based search, but right after I copied the image URL of the first portrait I realized they did not hide it very well:

http://tpssoftware.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/istock_YoungWhiteProfessionalMan-180x180.png

Clearly this is a stock photo from iStock. Personally I find this very distasteful - associating a false, probably superior and more likeable photo with a real person's statement. Well, that is assuming those testimonials are not fake, either. That is the problem with trust - you crack it then the whole thing comes tumbling down.