I am a Principal Engineer (PE) at Sun Microsystems; that statement probably doesn’t mean much to most people reading this, so to put it into context: the PEs at Sun are a diverse community comprised mostly of senior technical field staff – mostly long-termers – who by virtue of being “customer-facing” are not exactly engineers [...]
[news.bbc.co.uk] “Would I look less dodgy without my rucksack?” I asked. “Dodgy,” he replied. “What about if I wore a suit?” “You’d look like a dodgy bloke in a suit,” he said. “How about if I shaved my beard?” “Dodgy. Just face it – you look dodgy,” came the disconcerting reply. Over the seven weeks [...]
[worldwearydetective.blogspot.com] The scene: An anonymous provincial town in middle England somewhere. Four plotters gather together in a darkened room. The year is 2008. Plotter 1: Right everyone. Today is the day. Is everyone ready? All: YES! Plotter 1: Is everyone a ‘clean skin’ that has avoided the attention of the greatest security agencies in the [...]
So I loaded my normal list of cartoons and news for this morning – “Open in Tabs” is such a marvellous feature – and about halfway through my Safari browser flashed-up an error alert – which stops everything – to say: www.errorsafe.com NOTICE: If your computer has errors in the registry database of file system [...]
Bill Gates drives a Porsche 959 and had to help change the law so that he could. Ingvar Kamprad drives a 1993 Volvo 240 GL. My oh my. [www.forbesautos.com]