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Saturday, Nov 26, 2005, 4:30 PM in Fun
Wasting the Prince of Darkness
80% of the email I get about my Microsoft interview question site (which, 2.5 years into my MS career, nobody has yet forced me to take down) isn't very fun, e.g. asking for the answers (which I don't give) or fairly pedestrian stories ("I got asked some regular questions but didn't get hired.").
This one, though, is definitely worth posting. Enjoy!
Sunday, Nov 13, 2005, 1:35 PM in Fun
Dilbert on Trial Redundancy
As an engineer, I appreciate the efficiency of combining the criminal and civil trials into one. Plus, if it weren't for "women who have inexplicably bad judgment," I'd never have reproduced. : )
Friday, Nov 11, 2005, 1:54 PM in Fun
Best Exam Answer Ever
This is how you tell the marketing guys from the engineers... : )
Friday, Nov 11, 2005, 12:55 PM in Fun
Best Exam Answer Ever
Private email forwarded by Adam Denning
Friday, Nov 11, 2005, 8:54 AM in Fun
Wahoo2!
Because Michael Weinhardt has ported it to Windows Forms 2.0 and ClickOnce, now Wahoo2! is available on your Start menu whether you're connected to the internet or not. Enjoy!
Wednesday, Oct 26, 2005, 4:33 PM in Fun
I'm all ready for 9th grade
| You Passed 8th Grade Math |
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Saturday, Oct 22, 2005, 3:55 PM in Fun
Samwise Gamgee was the ultimate Program Manager
That is all.
Friday, Oct 21, 2005, 8:38 AM in Fun
@ MS, We Share Your Pain
Check out the new feature in Vista that allows MS developers to feel your pain when a crash occurs in a very real way.
Thursday, Oct 20, 2005, 8:46 AM in Fun
I'm the "with" @ the Redmond P&P Summit
Sure, sure, Alan Cooper and Anders Hejlsberg are keynoting, but I'm the "with" at this year's Redmond, WA Patterns & Practices Summit 12/13 - 12/15. I don't yet know what that means, but maybe if I'm enough "with it" in Redmond, it'll lead to "with-ness" in Sydney or Oslo (hint, hint... : ).
Thursday, Oct 20, 2005, 12:00 AM in Fun
Top 10 List of Top 10 Lists
I decided to go a little meta for this year's XML DevCon:
10. Top 10 List of Top 10 List of Top 10 List Ideas (a little too meta)
9. Top 10 Reasons that XAML Uses XML (Couldnt figure out a good representation of gradients in EDI)
8. Top 10 Secrets of the CLR (Boxing was almost called Richtering)
7. Top 10 Members of the XML Community Least Likely To Fit In At Burning Man (I don't want to see Doug Purdy showing up at the ice tent in his thong...)
6. Top 10 Members of the XML Community Most Likely To Fit In At Burning Man
(Wasnt Rory born at Burning Man?)
5. Top 10 Similarities Between Team America Characters and XML Community Members
(XML: Heck yeah!)
4. Top 10 Reasons That Raw XML Programmers Exhibit More Animal Magnetism
Than, Well, Anyone Else (Tim Ewald is really all the evidence we need...)
3. Top 10 New Enterprise Features in Visual Studio Orcas (Clippy: It looks like
youre designing an insurance agency schema. Can I help you with that?)
2. Top 10 Reasons Democrats Are More Likely To Be XML Programmers Than Republicans (89% of the angle brackets should not go to the top 1% of programmers!)
1. Top 10 Reasons That The Red Sox Are Going To Kick Butt! (Just pandering to the crowd...)
Chris Sells (with help from Scott Hanselman, Tim Ewald, Matt Powell and
Scott Bloom)
Applied XML Developer's Conference
Friday, October 20th, 2005
Tuesday, Oct 18, 2005, 10:30 AM in Fun
Retaking the holy land
I just found the most awesome site: http://grouphug.us. So far, this is my favorite.
Friday, Oct 14, 2005, 6:48 PM in Fun
Quote of the day
"More and more people I know know more and more people I know." --Melissa Sells
Thursday, Oct 13, 2005, 3:29 PM in Fun
His Outsourced Life
Here.
An Esquire magazine author hires not one but two Indian assistants and outsources practically everything but watching TV to them. By the end of the article, he's outsourced writing the article. I don't know if it's true, but it is funny (and scary).
Monday, Oct 10, 2005, 6:00 PM in Fun
It's a Windows Life
A story about how the world would be if MS never existed.
I come from a world where I had a Mac at home and a Unix box at work, giving me the best of both worlds in the late '80s. After that, I got a job at Intel programming Windows 3.1 and wondered why the hell this piece o' crap ran most of the world. 15 years later, I'm a happy Windows user and programmer. Did I change or did Windows?
Monday, Oct 10, 2005, 10:13 AM in Fun
Shepherd Book Wasn't Always A Shepherd
Aha! I finally figured out where I know Shepherd Book from and I now understand the references to the fact that he wasn't always a Shepherd. At one point, when he was much younger, Book was Det. Ron Harris from the 12th precinct in Los Angeles! I believe the low point in his career was in episode 135 and 136 (a rare two-parter) where Harris turns a low-budget pornography investigation into a major motion picture. The series only survived another 14 months before Harris changed his name and joined the clergy, eventually ending up on the Serenity. It all makes sense! That Buffy guy is quite the genius... : )