Category Archives: hate

Ferris’ Wheel (Updated)

January 26, 2012 – 4:53 pm

16:11 < colleague> if they do a sequel I so dearly hope ben stein and charlie sheen aren’t invited 16:11 < mhoye> “… Drugs?” 16:11 < mhoye> I think they have to be. 16:14 < second_colleague> why no ben stein? 16:14 < other_colleague> cause he’s gone INSANE 16:16  * mhoye thinks they should swap roles. [...]

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A Short Course On The Tragedy In Act One

January 26, 2012 – 12:35 pm

Back in 2003 Raymond Chen, noted Microsoftie and venerable author of the excellent Old New Thing blog, wrote a bit about the propensity programmers had for, and problems caused by, reverse-engineering Microsoft’s APIs and hooking into them in unapproved ways: “For example, BOZOSLIVEHERE was originally the window procedure for the edit control, with the rather [...]

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Out From Under

January 18, 2012 – 1:30 pm

Last week, I was a few months into a one-year agreement with Rogers for my home cable internet connection when they sent me some mail telling me they were going to raise the prices after March. The letter said, in part: “At Rogers, our number on priority is to bring you the best in information, [...]

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Baying For Blood

December 12, 2011 – 12:41 pm

I’ve mentioned this sort of thing before, but nevertheless: this is a really terrible piece of writing. I remain convinced that the best way to stop a bully is not to go mewling to the teacher, who will only call the victim’s mummy, or to your own mummy, who will only call the teacher. The [...]

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A Superstitious And Cowardly Lot

November 28, 2011 – 12:17 pm

At some point, a friend of mine has noted, some people should just admit that they hate and fear all change. It turns out that’s just as and probably more true of my enterprise sysadmin colleagues than it is of anyone else, but it seems a little more awkwardly baroque coming from class of people [...]

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“I knew it, I’m surrounded by assholes.”

November 19, 2011 – 9:20 pm

Dark Helmet: Who is he? Colonel Sandurz: He’s an Asshole, sir. Dark Helmet: I know that! What’s his name? Colonel Sandurz: That is his name, sir. Asshole. Major Asshole. Have I mentioned that the No Asshole Rule has profound geopolitical implications? It’s an idea that’s been rattling around my head for a while. JWZ links [...]

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Staying In Character

October 19, 2011 – 2:00 pm

This is how RIM talks to developers: Dear Vendor: We have added a new category in BlackBerry App World entitled ‘* Thank You Gift *’. This category is reserved for use by RIM only. If you put an app in this category, whether intentionally or not, we will deny it until you revert the category [...]

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Where The Rubber Meets The Road

September 14, 2011 – 7:28 pm

Exhibit 1: Eric Schmidt, on the Google+ “real name” policy. “If you think about it, the Internet would be better if we had an accurate notion that you were a real person as opposed to a dog, or a fake person, or a spammer or what have you. [...] If we knew that it was [...]

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Legalized Extortion

August 11, 2011 – 2:46 pm

The reason you never hear about HP in discussions like this is because they bought Palm. Somewhere in some dark corner of their organization they have a patent for “a computer with a touch screen display that fits in your pocket”, and nobody’s going even going to think of picking a fight with somebody who [...]

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“Up To”

July 19, 2011 – 5:50 pm

I’ve made a graph. This is Bell and Rogers current broadband offerings, their advertised “up to X” speed, and how long it would take to hit their stated monthly cap running at their advertised maximum speed full-out. As you can see, they’re selling you a month of quota that you can use in half a [...]

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