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At least once a day I hear a random “ding!” and I have no idea what's doing it or if it's important.  This isn't very useful to me.  It really makes me appreciate unobtrusive, yet informative notification methods like the little balloons in the notification area that everyone seems to hate.  Like them or not, they're a heck of a lot better than modal dialogs or background “ding!”s.  If you write an app that dings, please stop what you're doing right now and throw a balloon in the notification area.  It won't take that long and you'll sleep better tonight.  Thank you.

(This is also the inaugural post in my “beef” category.  I could bitch all day about computer things, but I've never had an appropriate slot for it.  Are you feeling lucky, punk?  Well, are ya?!)