Mixed feelings
Today on Orkut my fortune is: “You are going to inherit a large sum of money.” Isn’t that the same as saying: “Someone you know is going to die.”?
Now how do I turn this fortune thing off….
Crazy as a shithouse rat
Uncle Patrick: where the hell were you when I needed you during frosh week in second year?
Socks should match your pants, and your belt should match your shoes. After that, if anyone complains, tell ‘em they should be happy you’re wearing any clothes at all.
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If, while chugging a beer, the phrase, “I bet this is […]
Thoughts on registration schemes
Registration schemes for software are generally a good idea: enter a unique, valid serial number and get to use the software. So why is it that some developers spend so much time working on perfecting their software, software that is of a high-enough quality that I want to pay for it, just to neglect the […]
Google vs. Booble: Fight!
I love the internet, where the weird is just par for the course. This makes Celebrity Boxing look like just another bunch of chumps stumbling around in a dingy ring. Google is suing Booble for trademark infringement and is demanding that Booble hand over it’s domain. Booble responds with choice gems like these :
In the […]
Kaba Kick
Russian roulette: For kids of all ages!
No linker == no good
Joel “Joel on Software” has an excellent rant about why the concept of the runtime engine is still crap:
Runtimes are a problem, much like DLLs, because you can get into trouble when application version 1 was designed to work with runtime version 1, and then runtime version 2 comes out, and suddenly application version 1 […]
You can’t survive on McDonalds
Morgan Spurlock decided to see if a person could survive on a diet of nothing but McDonalds food in his new documentary “Super Size Me”. Despite gaining 25 pounds he was actually killing himself:
Within a few days of beginning his drive-through diet, Spurlock, 33, was vomiting out the window of his car, and doctors who […]
Movie review: Cabin Fever
A remarkably bad horror film for many reasons, but specifically one in particular (no, not bad acting. Bad acting is par for the course for this sort of film and not something to be criticized. Now good acting, that would be ususual. And no, not the script. That it blows is par for the genre […]
How to delete? How do you want to delete?
Over on inessential.com Brent Simmons, creator of NetNewsWire, has been asking some interesting questions about bits of Mac UI development in an attempt to find a semi-standard, ‘best way’ to do implement certain features.
I’ve got one that consistently bugs me in other applications and that, much to my horror, I’ve realised I don’t implement in […]
How not to get a job
Rejection letter.
(Thanks Kirsten!)