Why computers are hard to use for common people

Let me start by saying I have made my entire career programming, managing and in general working with computers. However, I am not a Windows Messenger user in general. However, today I was using it and I was looking at some of the options and was presented with the following screen:

I found this exceedingly odd, as I could not for the life of me determine what the heck allowing the acceptance of ink would do for me. It wasn't even something that seemed even remotely logical.
My other evidence is the following screen that I seem to get all of the time when running Windows Internet Exploder.
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If I was a normal person, I can't imagine I would find this a reasonable error. This screen is so verbose, it makes me want to just shut off the computer every time I see it. I can't help but think of some grandmotherly type trying to look something up and getting this message simply saying: "The InterNet is down!" While computers have certainly become commonplace - I think we all need to do a better job of making them more useful and easier to use. There have been great strides, but there is still a long way to go.

Death - How will I die

Yet another silly online poll. I tried a couple today - Randy's language thing and this. Kind of silly, but the rationale makes a little bit of sense if you know me.

You scored as Poison. Your death will be by poison, probably because you are a glutton and are around so many people that it would be easy to get away with it. Posion 60% Drowning 53% Bomb 53% Disease 53% Cut Throat 53% Suffocated 47% Natural Causes 47% Disappear 40% Suicide 33% Gunshot 27% Accident 27% Eaten 27% Stabbed 13% How Will You Die?? created with QuizFarm.com

Suze Orman Irritates Me

I really don't understand why this woman is so popular. All she does is yell at people in a rather holier than thou, I'm smarter than you, why aren't you listening to me tone. I see her absolutely everywhere. I can't watch her for more than 5 minutes without wanting to throw bricks at the screen. Her advice is so much drivel I can't stand it. Today I was looking for currency conversions and was acosted by her ads. I just don't get it - can someone explain it?