Dr Wingnut

Category: Computer

  • Superstar

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    The other day I got a postcard from an outfit called Global Knowledge that wanted me to go to their site to register to see if I was the winner of A FREE Blockbuster Night Card (Two movie rentals, Two 20oz Coke’s, and One tub of microwave popcorn).  Ok, I’m a geek, but I’m not…

  • Geek To Me

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    How I learned to stop fretting and love a computer nerdI had been going out with him for about four days.  It was summer, and we were lying on a blanket in the park, shaded by the whispering leaves of a tall maple.  I was trying to remember the age of a mutual friend.Without saying…

  • The CRM application rollout took …

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    586 cups of coffee, 133 candy bars, 75 missed lunches, so why is your boss getting the credit?Get the respect you deserve – search Thousands of Tech management Jobs on Dice.comI thought that this was amusing, so I couldn’t resist posting this advertisement that was in the Software Development daily email yesterday.

  • Reliability

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    Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way.  This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.Jef Raskin

  • Getting organized

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    Del.icio.us is an online bookmarking service that’s getting popular in the geek community.  It lets you post your bookmarks to a Web site, so they’ll be accessible from any computer, and share those bookmarks with other del.icio.us users.  Del.icio.us is not only a bookmarking service, it’s a research tool.  Yahoo recently introduced My Web 2,…

  • Penniless Engineer takes a new job

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    The last time we saw the penniless engineer, he was working for Microsoft.  Now it seems that he has taken a new position with ActiveState Software as demonstrated in this advertisement from Software Development Times 15 August 2005 issue.  He’s not going to get a very good reputation job hopping around like he has been…

  • Getting Ugly in Mass-a-two-shits

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    Who owns the air? by ZDNet‘s Dana Blankenhorn — I can easily imagine private apartment complexes and commercial structures using such language to keep WiFi out, then selling the “right” to “sell” such service to someone else.Unless the FCC steps in and corrects this kind of abuse pretty soon, there will be lots of unhappy…