If you must know, one of my greatest pet peeves is a crappy website. I'm not talking about just content and aesthetics, but functionality in general.

For example, take the Washingtonian's website. The magazine itself is great, but in all honesty, the website sucks. To give them credit, they're in the midst of rebuilding it and will launch the new design on October 30th.

However, the Washingtonian didn't exactly make it easy for readers to find existing content. In order to get to the old site, you have to click on either the cover of the current issue on the left (no way of knowing this will take you to the home page of the old site) or one of the articles listed on the landing page. Otherwise, there's no real way of knowing that you can still access old material. In addition, there's a completely broken link on the bottom of the landing page - in this case, the guide to "Great Hair" (e.g., hair salons). Click on it, and you get a cold 404 instead of being redirected to the subscriber login.

I try to circumvent this by clicking on a random article link on the front page to get back to the old site, and then click on "Shopping" in hopes that it will come up with the link to the "Great Hair" feature. Nope - another cold 404. Same thing for the "Education" section. Apparently they've both gone AWOL.

Seriously, if you're going to reinvent a site, either a) provide a link to a completely functioning existing version, b) at least remove links to sections that seemingly have been misplaced, or c) all of the above. Broken links are frustrating and downright useless, and rank right up there on my list of daily annoyances. (#1 would have to be stupid drivers - in particular, those that cause slowdowns because they're unfamiliar with the process of merging into traffic properly.)

(Can you tell I'm peeved about my lack of a hair salon guide? The Hair Cuttery just doesn't cut it anymore. (no pun intended) The ladies don't seem to understand what I’m saying ("Just half an inch!") and I end up with 3 inches hacked off.