I always find Joel Spolsky’s essays interesting reads. Often I agree with him, and sometimes they make me want to argue with him over a beer, but I never feel like my time is wasted. His recent short piece on the problem of over-communication, though, is a one that hits a place near-and-dear to my [...]
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I should mention, as a very long aside, that I almost couldn’t scan those picture for that last post.
When I left my old job I had to return all the corporate hardware–which meant all the machines that were even vaguely current in my house. Part of what I’ve been doing over the last few [...]
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I’m sure that there has been a time in my life, and will again be a time in my life, when the skewering of tech industry management jargon done at Rands In Repose was/will be hilarious.
But I’ve got to tell you, right at the moment, some of those things are just a little too on [...]
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You know what you never want to see? Ever? This:
That’s a particularly nasty variant of that old companion of people who do computer things for money: the BSOD. This one usually means one of three things: you have a virus on your Master Boot Record, the drive with your swap partition on it is [...]
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Most mornings I try to check out the interesting new links on the particular categories of Reddit that interest me.
For the most part, I don’t bother with the comments–they are generally noise, not signal.
However, the best computery thing I read last week, and possibly for a significantly longer window, showed up in one of those [...]
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And now, for another exciting post of links and short comments:
I’ve always been aware of having been gifted with a pretty powerful attention span. I have always kind of assumed it came from becoming a reader at a very young age, but I guess it’s equally plausible that things are actually ordered the other way [...]
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Hmm…
A study by the Ponemon Institute found that more than 59 percent of those surveyed kept corporate data after leaving their jobs. The survey, which was sponsored by Symantec, included responses from 945 adult employees who had lost or left a job in 2008.
The most commonly stolen pieces of information were e-mail lists and non-financial [...]
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So, which would be more fun to leave visible on your computer in a full screen, kiosk mode, browser window: Now or Henchmen’s Helper? (Sometimes I wish I was in an office, just so I could engage in these small performances.)
(0 Comments)I think I’m going to soon look at setting up the site with “asides”, so that instead of gathering up large buckets of links that I have only a few comments on, I can just drop them in as “asides” between my longer and more content-y posts.
In the meantime, another (possibly final) agglomeration of miscellaneous [...]
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Nothing on this year’s Beloit College Mindset List hit me quite as hard as this one:
Windows 3.0 operating system made IBM PCs user-friendly the year they were born.
Damn.
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And, time to close a few more tabs…
It’s lovely that the Internet can bring me an interactive beer and food matching guide. Sadly, it uses a different algorithm than I do–resulting in far more matches with “see through” beer than my scheme would generate.
Speaking of beer, I love the idea of beer haiku. My favourite [...]
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…the computer industry is a scam.
Now, normally when I say this, I mean something about the broad “knowledge industry”, and how commercial software developers are amongst the most highly-paid people who only theoretically1 contribute to society.
However, it is also true on a much more retail level:
…and I would say NOT practically(back)
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