Once again, Joel Spolsky is right on in his latest essay. Joel on Software – Biculturalism I’ve encountered too many Unix programmers who sneer at Windows programming, thinking that Windows is heathen and stupid. Raymond all too frequently falls into the trap of disparaging the values of other cultures without considering where they came from. …
“I’m Saddam Hussein. I’m the president of Iraq and I’m willing to negotiate.” – Saddam Hussein just before capture “President Bush sends his regards.” – U.S. Troops. Methinks he’s about 8 months too late.
Wow, I never thought I’d see this happen. Doesn’t look like this guy was doing a lot of commanding of rebels from his hole though.
I was looking through my access logs today and noticed a lot of ‘cute’ referrals. Apparently, my cat is considered to be one of the top 20 cutest images in the world. (Last row, bottom right.) If this picture had sound, I bet it wouldn’t seem so cute. Meow, meow, meow, meeeow, meow, meow, meow… …
I want a Griffin Technologies RadioSHARK. It’s TiVo for radio and it just plugs right into your Mac. I’ll never miss car talk again. Nevermind, I don’t think I’ll be able to wait that long.
“We don’t need to panic or assume that the worst case scenario is going to happen to everyone. Most of us will get through this fine.” – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Julie Gerberding on the widespread flu outbreak. Most??
Movable Type allows you to enter a description or tagline for your blog. Currently I have “Because personal home pages are so 1997.” That’s true of course as blogging is replacing all the home page builders of that era. Blogs are easier to set up, don’t require knowing HTML and they’re quicker to update. There …
I just got back from what was probably the easiest dentist appointment of my life. I’ve been scared into taking much better care of my teeth in the last 6 months. In the spring, one area of my mouth was feeling achy, but I couldn’t pin it down. I finally went to the dentist and …
Uh hi, what are you doing here? Mom, Dad, geez, most of my friends are here. Shouldn’t you all be at work 3000 miles away? Anne, why are all these people here? It’s not my birthday. My email? Yeah, I just checked it a few minutes ago. I didn’t see anything about this. What do …
I’ve had Top Gun SSH for my Treo installed for a while now, but it always looked bad because I needed to install the right term entries, whatever that was. I finally figured that out today. The easiest way is to just get the latest mater list and update all of them into my local …