Posts Tagged ‘ humour ’
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Some time back I wrote a quote of the day: There is no greater joy than soaring high on the wings of your dreams, except maybe the joy of watching a dreamer who has nowhere to land but in the ocean of reality. For a moment I though the quote was apropos for Alec Clew’s [ READ MORE ]
To quote Niklaus Wirth: Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster[ READ MORE ]
Sometimes I wonder at the simplicity of us humans. Its often hard to see the simplicity though, when we act in such complex ways, but I think the following describes our ‘behaviour‘ quite succinctly. Pretty simple huh? Well it looks a bit like this when you draw a graph: See what I mean? You sate [ READ MORE ]
Click this link to see the single largest threat to democracy the world is currently facing. This bunch of evil techno-terrorists is ravening at the gates of western civilization. You have every right to fear these people. Their military might fought America to a standstill. How can we withstand such an enemy? These crack commandos [ READ MORE ]
A little known linguistic mangling: ‘Aluminium‘ was not how Humphrey Davy initially named the element. First he called it Alumium, then he called it ‘Aluminum‘. So, is Aluminium a case of reverse defrancophonificationism? Defrancophonificationism is of course a francophonificated coinage itself. Rather like the Euro… ;^}[ READ MORE ]
Memetically, I’m lying in my bed sweating till the sheets are drenched. Memetically, the family is stood around the foot of my bed and the priest has been called up from the village. Memetically, I am raving while the hospital staff tie straps to my arms and legs to prevent me from hurting myself. Memetically, [ READ MORE ]
Alec has provided a few of the reasons he hates Microsoft. They all seem like sentimental attachment to other peoples litigation defeats… In honour of that, I have changed the colour of my blog for a day or two… I too went through an undergraduate phase of anti-MS zealotry, and adopted obscure platforms as a [ READ MORE ]
Funny. There really is a large Oedipal component to anti-MS zealotry. The non-alpha nerds (especially very young under graduate level or recently post graduate level nerds) presumably see Bill Gates (and Microsoft in general) in the same way as they saw their fathers when they were very young children… Bill is the ultimate competitor for [ READ MORE ]
I have to admit that my impression of what life must be like inside of Microsoft stems mostly from reading Microserfs by Douglas Coupland. As a result, I was disappointed to discover that when stuff gets shipped these days, they give each other cakes instead of indestructible Lucite plaques. Here’s the proof: My guess is [ READ MORE ]
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