In honor of the great Festivus holiday, today I choose to air some of my UX related grievances. In the infamous words of Frank Costanza, “I’ve got a lot of problems with you people!” Feel free to post your own grievances below.

To mog.com, for having the worst search engine ever. Searching for “roger clyne and the peacemakers”? That brings up nothing. But “roger clyne & the peacemakers” — we’ve got a match! (Just “peacemakers” brings up nothing too, btw, so we’re clear.) Cool site otherwise, though.

To Lotus Notes, for “finding” (Ctrl + F) messages off the viewable area of the screen, so I have to exit out of the “Find” dialog and scroll down to see if the message found is the one I’m looking for, and if it is not (usually the case), having to re-enter the dialog and start over. (I could have an entire list on Notes, but that’s enough for now.)

To the Chester County Library System, my library, for requiring “www” in front of their url, www.ccls.org. Typing http://ccls.org only times out. University of Richmond (richmond.edu) and Colgate University (colgate.edu) are two additional culprits (out of many, many more).

To MySpace, for putting my password in plain text in my account confirmation email. I just registered guys — I remember my password. Please don’t send it to me through one of the least secure channels on the entire internet!

To everyone who has a MySpace page that plays music when I visit it. Aside from a specific band’s page, I can’t recall ever enjoying the song that plays. Why must thou force it on me?

To every retail site that doesn’t remember that I like to “view all”. It is so simple to remember this — why make me click the damn link again and again???

To the new Yahoo! Mail, for — despite being the very best webmail — not having an advanced search feature, so everytime a person is copied on an email, that email appears in the search results. I’ve got 4,000 emails people, I need some additional search functionality! While we’re at it, why does it jump to the very top of the list when I sort by Name or Subject? How about jumping to the selected email? Even Lotus Notes can do that.

To Firefox’s developer toolbar, for only having “800×600″ as an option for browser resizing. Clearly developed by someone working at 1024×768, who didn’t think about those of us who develop at higher resolutions and want to test 1024 as well. Yes, I know that I can type it in manually, but that isn’t very convenient, is it?

To Comcast’s DVR, for not being TiVo. I like that you record HDTV and integrate into my channel guide, but after that it is all downhill.

To my DVD player, for not having a shuffle option when playing MP3 CDs. How am I supposed to celebrate Festivus without good music?

What problems do you have? Comment below.