Due to a very hectic Yule/New Year’s event schedule and events related to same, my year in review posts will not be made until possibly 2009 January 07.
Happy New Year everyone, it’s time for me to go party…
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I quit using Microsoft’s software (most notably, the Windows operating system) on my computers in 2002, and have purchased no new Microsoft hardware (keyboards, mice, game consoles, media players, etc) for my own use (actually, none at all, really) during those six years and change. Nothing makes me more glad I left Microsoft’s world than [...] This recent article in Coding Horror (linked from TechBlog) at first glance appears to be at first about murder and theft on the high seas. Oh wait, sorry, need to take a closer look. Let’s change that last part to “programmers getting ripped off by unauthorized copying.” Surprisingly, the lead-in is a quote from letter [...] It’s a bit old, but just today I read an entry in Ed Truitt’s blog about how the Pentagon got infected with (what I would guess is) a Windows worm. To quote the quoted message: Someone infected thumb drives with the WORM then dropped them around the Pentagon parking lot. The employees, picked them up, [...] So I saw this meme on a few other blogs (most notably Cosmopolitican’s blog where I commented, but elsewhere as well before and since), and I figured it’d be a great way to get the ball rolling. Most people did this meme because they were tagged by another blogger somewhere; I’m a bit different, I [...] This recent article by the BBC finally confirms something I have long suspected: While writing in textese was significantly faster across the board, nearly half the students took twice as long to read messages aloud as compared to standard English versions. In other words, the five seconds one saves by not spelling out words like [...] |
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