Well kind of…in a way…possibly…OK, not at all. The other day I was digging through some old articles that I wrote. To my amusement, I saw a reference to a little program I hacked up once when I was involved as a KDE developer. I had totally forgotten about it, and I figured it would be [...]

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At first I wondered what was the point of twitter. Today I found it: johnleach introduced his cats to squirty cream. one was terrified of it. years of trust building, gone in one short hilarious squirt. You are an amusing man, Mr Leach.

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Knock knock?

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In the tradition of showcasing amusing metal-related videos, Mighty Mike Basinger sends me this nugget: See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. See the vid here. Mike, you have to much time on your hands, brother.

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From Blizzard. Take a picture of yourself right now. Don?t change your clothes, don?t fix your hair?just take a picture. Post that picture with NO editing. Post these instructions with your picture. It is my natural working posture. Honest.

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Wow, Yngwie Malmsteen, notable guitar virtuoso, who I have been a fan of for years has just announced the cover for his new album Perpetual Flame: Oh dear. That is very bad indeed. Notable reaction from the album-buying public includes “Wow that’s bad…the chest hair and all..wow…“ “The Hoff called and wants his chest hair back.“ “That’s gotta be [...]

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Congratulations to the FSF for managing to get the legendary Stephen Fry to celebrate the anniversary of GNU. I am just somewhat surprised they decided to license it under a non-free license (Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States). Boot’s on the other foot now, eh?

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Wow. Everyone loves Buzzword Bingo, but sometimes it gets a tad ridiculous. Back in July I got a gem via email. It started off with this zinger of an opener (identities censored to protect the innocent): Program Focuses On Helping The Open Source Ecosystem Grow Sustainable Businesses By Implementing A Community-Leveraged Model It then [...]

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[419 Eater]](http://www.419eater.com/) always amuses me - it is a website scam-baiters follow through with those Nigerian scam emails. Today though I read a case where someone manages to persuade the scammer to tattoo Baited By Shiver on his leg. Read it here. Comedy.

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Over the last four years as I've been doing this blog, I've had a few people complain that the simple math question you have to answer when posting a comment is annoying.

Well it could be worse.

(taken from Worst Captchas of All Time).

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One of the fun aspects of my job has been the opportunity to travel and see the world. In the last few years I have had the chance to visit some stunning places - Brazil, Argentina, Turkey, Australia, Czech Republic, Portugal, USA, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Ireland and various other places. Of course there are many [...]

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Well, after all of the theory and contemplation of how to resolve burnout in companies, teams and communities, it seems that one link has the complete solution. Ahhhh…

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Pointed to me by Aq - what happens when the legendary Van Halen play the multi-million selling Jump live while the backing tape with the famous synth from the song is played back at slightly the wrong pitch? Well, you get a combination of the following: The whole band sound ropier than a snake-charming convention. Fail. Eddie [...]

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Yesterday, I stumbled across the O'Reilly book cover maker web site and thought I'd have a go.

A long long time ago, in a land far far away (and before I joined Sun if you were wondering), I had a manager I did not get on with. I'm sure the feeling was reciprocated. When it came time for my yearly review, the draft copy contained the phrase, "does not suffer fools gladly". "Ah," I replied, "so you admit they are fools then?" I was glared at, but I did notice that the final version used a different wording.

When you are in a situation like that, I've always found it best to move on, but in tribute to that manager, I present my sample O'Reilly cover. Click on it to see a larger version. I would have liked to have made the title "Suffering Fools Gladly", but it wasn't smart enough to reduce the font size so it all still nicely fit.

Hopefully that manager has retired by now, and is no longer inflicting their managerial skills (or lack thereof) on poor suffering employees.

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twitter.com/jonobacon is lies. Don’t believe it. Another vicious act at the hands of Alan Pope and Dave Walker. Another victim of identity theft… UPDATE: The twitter account has been retrieved! Another glorious victory over Alan Pope.

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