A colleague was drafting a memo to send out company-wide today and forwarded it to me for review. The copy was mostly good, although he referenced several “servers that will be effected by ongoing work” or somesuch. I replied that,…
We dressed Will up in his new Superman PJs for Halloween night (he had a home-made costume my wife made for him on earlier in the day – he was a spider) and, well, I just couldn’t help posting a…
I was talking to one of our engineers yesterday (let’s just call him “A.”) about a certain senior engineer (let’s just call him “C.”) when A. revealed a very funny set of circumstances surrounding C. revealed by a third engineer…
Jeff Harrell asks an interesting question: what is the proper plural form of “MacBook Pro”? Is it like “attorneys general”, as in “MacBooks Pro”, or is the far more pedestrian “MacBook Pros”? The world, sadly, may never kn… wait, it’s…
Saw this one on the digg wires and thought it was too good to pass up posting: How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot in Any Programming Language: C You shoot yourself in the foot. C++ You accidentally create a…
I think that the restaurant at which my coworkers and I eat our traditional weekly Chinese Tuesday recently changed fortune cookie suppliers, as their “fortunes” are now no longer anything of the kind. Instead of predictive fortunes, we routinely find…
I’m basically sold on the concept of buying a Wii as of this moment, which makes the news that Nintendo will be selling Commodore 64 titles on their Virtual Console service just icing on the cake. It may be taking…
Or: RedHat Enterprise Linux’s `ypbind` Is Functionally Brain-Dead WARNING/WARNUNG/ADVERTENCIA/AVERTISSEMENT: Geeky rant follows. If you don’t give a hoot about UNIX and/or Linux, you may just want to give this post a pass. -ed. First, a little background: like many shops…
Tired of feeling inferior to your geek bettersfriends, what with all their technical jargon and carrying on about obscure scientific and cultural phenomena? Then Penguin Pete’s guide, How To Totally Fake Being A Geek, will be of immeasurable assistance in…
I was listening to All Things Considered on NPR during my drive home yesterday and heard them tease a review of Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man’s Chest by “an unusual reviewer”. I thought to myself “They couldn’t possibly be…
