Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

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  • Hmmmmm… We’ve actually thought about doing what Jim suggest in Idiocy Imperils the Web, but we wanted to take it one step further. We wanted an Email Wall of Shame. Anyone who more than twice infects their computer with a virus would be placed on the wall. Sadly, I don’t think it would work. People…

  • Thursdays

    “Thursdays in August are the black hole of e-mail advertising.” –  Les Callhan (Spam Is in Eye of the Beholder, Wired) Can’t wait for Thursdays in August! Woohoo! Preserved comments:  6/6/2003 2:57 PM by AlanaNightingale: hehe

  • Where are Iraq’s WMDs?

    My sincerest hope was that Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld actually did have solid evidence of Hussein’s development nuclear weapons. My hope was that the News organizations I read had somehow got it wrong. After all, how can one justify misleading the public just to start a war? This Newsweek article, “Where are Iraq’s WMDs?” agrees…

  • “Thursdays in August are the black hole of e-mail advertising.” —  Les Callhan (Spam Is in Eye of the Beholder, Wired) Can’t wait for Thursdays in August! Woohoo!

  • My sincerest hope was that Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld actually did have solid evidence of Hussein’s development nuclear weapons. My hope was that the News organizations I read had somehow got it wrong. After all, how can one justify misleading the public just to start a war? This Newsweek article, “Where are Iraq’s WMDs?” agrees…

  • I am not a programmer. I don’t dream code. Coding makes sweat. My programs never “just work”, I have to spend hours and hours poring over every twit and tiddle figure out why the damn thing will not so much as do anything.

  • Coding takes sweat

    I am not a programmer. I don’t dream code. Coding takes sweat. My programs never “just work”, I have to spend hours and hours poring over every twit and twiddle figure out why the damn thing will not so much as do anything.   Preserved comments: 6/3/2003 10:15 PM by anonymous: Does anyone’s programs “just work”?  I’d…

  • Computer Virus and Malware class

    A Computer Virus and Malware class actually sounds fairly novel and useful. U of Calgary is defending its choice to offer it. I could use some lessons on project management. Especially now that the security guys are trying to tap into my time more and more.

  • A Computer Virus and Malware class actually sounds fairly novel and useful. U of Calgary is defending its choice to offer it. I could use some lessons on project management. Especially now that the security guys are trying to tap into my time more and more.