Windows OS X! Ha ha!
They just need to chuck all the old baggage and start from scratch. No backward compatibility as well. Fuck those users who don’t want to go forward into the future. Let them suck on XP or Vista. It’s time for the future.
I’m tracking you as you surf this site. Sorry. Big brother is here.
But over the weekend statcounter went down. If you visited this site at the time, you would’ve had to have waited until the request for the statcounter badge timed out before you saw any content. Sorry again.
Those guys at statcounter also are sorry. And they’ll tell you how it happened. Blow by blow and in excruciating technical detail. Hunh? Whatever! But it’s good to know that they don’t keep you in the dark.
They’ll make amends next time.
Here’s the latest trivia from earlier this morning on imdb. This was completely wrong and it changed as I was typing up this post, but reading it was funny.
I think the answer should be “My Two Dads.”
I always wondered how spammers filled their spam email with snippets of text. You’ve read it. It defeats your spam blocker with the random text, and when you read it it almost makes sense. Almost.
So now my Annie Hall review is infamous. It’s probably clogging up the internet pipes as we speak. More interesting is if I ever receive it back.
Can anyone decode the unicode text and tell me what it means?
Here it is in full: (with additional line breaks added by me)
Beijing China
211.145.113.234
/C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/%u675C%u76C8/%u684C%u9762/
%u7535%u5F71%u4E0E%u65F6%u5C1A/
%u8D44%u6599%u5206%u7C7B/AN/BrowserMetrics%20Annie%20Hall.htm
As a software developer, it’s humbling to admit mistakes in you’re design. “My kungfu is not as good as I think it is.” You have to be brave, but in the long it’s much better to admit to your shortcomings because you’ll save more. “Scrap it now rather than bandaid it for the future.”
Here’s the Twitter folks admitting to issues with their social network. The questions are phrased in a condescending tone conveying the incredulousness of their situation. “You’re site runs on only one db server?! You update by hand?! What kind of idiots are you?” It’s admirable that the Twitter folks even answered such grueling questions.
Will I be able to fess up the same way if I’m on a software project to nowheresville?
http://blog.twitter.com/2008/05/its-not-rocket-science-but-its-our-work.html
Driving into work and I make a quick move to avoid a car. My hat slides across my dashboard and out into the morning air. D’oh! I’m so unlucky with caps. I’ll get another. I could’ve reached out and stopped it. It moved in slow motion, across the dashboard, hung up for a microsecond on the lip of the door then, whoosh. I watch it in my rearview mirror. Sayonora, baseball cap.
Now they tell me!
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=iron+man+after+the+creditsI hate that, because I did stay past the first set of credits on the
roll. Everything that had some Iron Manly thing as a background. I
left during the credit roll before it got to the technical talent of the
gaffers, best boys, focus pullers, slate snappers, dolly men, and craft
service servers. I wondered why that group of guys were sticking around.Oh, well. We at least got YouTube.
Mission Accomplished
Banner aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln 5 years ago during President Bush’s speach
Thomas Friedman is almost always wrong, but, like the cliché of the stopped watch, he's right at least once on occasion. In this opinion piece in the NY Times, he's making sense that the way to a national energy policy is not through taxation. The Clinton-McClain gas tax holiday is a bogus way out of dependency for oil. Those two candidates are wankers and are only pandering to the stupid people of the US with this proposal. We got us into this mess, relaxing the cost won't get us out. We need to reduce our dependency on oil, not increase it. The decrease in cost should raise the demand. Something this dumb should disqualify them both from being president.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/opinion/30friedman.html?
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