How to ruin a perfectly good sentence

In this gem, the author uses 'u' instead of 'you' in the middle of a sentence (which he has since corrected in some versions of this article) .

I've never been a big fan of using the 'txtspk' shortcuts in any sort of document or article. It looks unprofessional, and in the case of this article snippet, it shows a generally inconsistency. Most of the time, the author uses a proper 'you', but slips up once. Bad form.

Side note: txtspk shortcuts are great when there is actually a limitation on the number of characters you can type, but not when you have a full keyboard and unlimited space. There's a time and place for that sort of thing, but it's not here.

A pop up calendar in the wrong place, but right time at least.

This is from a credit union site. It presents you with transactions for the current month and allows you to look back at the past history of transactions. However, when you click on the calendar icon, it opens another small window -- well away from where your mouse pointer is located. For me, this violates a couple of different design patterns:

• Fitt's Law -- you're given a small target far away from the initial location.
• Least Surprise -- it's a bit of shock to suddenly see another window open outside of the main window. What's it for? A spam ad?

There's a discordant association with the main window and the sub-window. What if you don't notice it? Then what?

A more viable solution would have been to connect the calendar icon with a menu drop, instead, that would let the user immediately understand the association between clicking on the icon and the results, as well as immediately knowing that clicking on the resulting small calendar would create the expected results. It would also prevent the user from having to move his or her mouse outside the scope of focus.