Category: Computers

April 4, 2008

Quote of the Day

Filed under: Computers, Quotes - 04 Apr 2008

From Coding Horror:
“x86-64? Our children will probably be using it. Meanwhile, the Itanic slips deeper into the North Sea every month.”

True story: A year or so ago, we were talking to a rep from a major server manufacturer. …

January 8, 2008

billg!

Filed under: Computers - 08 Jan 2008

Apparently Microsoft Bill has a sense of humor.

My favorite part: Bono.

July 5, 2007

Communication Breakdown

Filed under: Computers, Wisdom - 05 Jul 2007

A coworker called a branch in Oregon the other day. We’d had a report from Monitoring that their server was down.

So we called, and this being a holiday week, not many people were around, and we ended up speaking …

March 23, 2007

The World I Live In

Filed under: Computers, Life - 23 Mar 2007

This post of Sarah’s reminded me of a situation I found myself in recently. My car was running like utter crap, hesitating every time I tried to accelerate, so I finally took it in to have the spark …