Sunday, March 13, 2005 - Posts

Sunday, March 13, 2005 10:13 PM

• Your desktop is filthy, and you know it

  [Update: It has been brought to my attention by several people that there is a much easier way of doing this, but I don’t care. I put a lot of work into this tuna casserole, and you can just eat it and like it! Where would we be if we always took the Read More Rory | 13 Comments Filed Under: Enter the Nerd, General

• The Coding Slave at Microsoft

  Bob Reselman, AKA “The Coding Slave Guy,” called me a few days ago to ask me how I felt about working at Microsoft. I gave him my true, open, honest, and extremely biased opinion. Since then, he’s interviewed with Daddy (my nickname for MS), and… Well, Read More posted Sunday, March 13, 2005 9:46 PM by Rory | 4 Comments Filed Under: Enter the Nerd, General

Sunday, March 13, 2005 9:40 PM

• Patterns of oppression? I think not...

  There has been a lot of talk lately about the White Male Blogger. Tom Boucher has been thinking out loud about this stuff, and he linked to me in the context of the following paragraph: I guess it amuses me how people struggle to find patterns of oppression Read More Rory | 2 Comments Filed Under: General

• I'm so old that "New" Coke isn't "New"

  I was reflecting tonight on how my body has been falling apart, and I realized something: I’m getting old. I’m so old that “New” Coke is so not new anymore that I know people who are so young that they don’t even remember the stuff or how it brought this Read More posted Sunday, March 13, 2005 6:42 AM by Rory | 18 Comments Filed Under: General

Sunday, March 13, 2005 2:20 AM

• Pears and Cherries

  Regardless of your feelings toward Open Source, if you’re a developer, your little developer heart has to bleed at least a little for the people working on PearPC. If you haven’t been following the story, here it is in a nutshell… There’s an Open Source Read More Rory | 2 Comments Filed Under: Enter the Nerd