The Swiss Cheese model, pt. 2

1. Oh damn, you caught me in the middle of something. I was just trying to make a list of Windows versions for a friend – in Google Docs, of all things. Should be easy. I already grabbed this one off of Wikipedia and massaged it a bit, but it’s still kinda ugly: I don’t love the tight padding here. Let me try something bigger, like 0.08 inches? I’ll just select the first column and punch the number in, and… What the hell!!! Jesus. What happened? Okay, let’s press ⌘Z to get out of it… Oh, no. Maybe I can press Esc… Shit. 2. Okay, here’s what happened in precise detail: I pressed Backspace to delete an existing zero: I started to type “.08″. Pressing ”.” was okay, although it showed a pretty thirsty tooltip: upon adding “0″ Docs removed the ”.” and so the output was just “0”: upon adding “8” Docs removed the leading zero and we ended up at just “8″: the page saw the resulting “8″, applied 8 inches of padding (a hundred times of what I wanted!), and just showed it to me in real time,…