Brier Dudley is a journalist for the Seattle Times. He blogged a reply to my “Defending Dunn” piece.
He says, “I’ve never heard of any reporter using pretexting. It’s a slimy tactic and the information gained wouldn’t be worth the effort and ethical taint. A list of phone calls may be useful to a corporate leak […]
For some reason I never saw this MarkL post on Hailstorm when he posted a year and a half ago.
Wow. It’s amazing to me that 5 years later, there is still such a huge disconnect between the way the Hailstorm/Win32 people write history, and the way the rest of us saw it. Thank God (and Eric Bina) […]
Blake Ross talks about how the old Netscape Browser was one big WTF. His post led me to one of the old Netscape devs (everyone knows jwz) claiming that, “to a database person, every nail looks like a thumb.”
It’s lovely, because it’s in the same post claiming that you would be crazy to use anything […]
Random braindump as today’s DPE (Developer and Platform Evangelism) team meeting kicks off:
I found 3 different routes to get from the conference center to B34 Cafe with minimal rain; all involve various underground passages. (We have a life-size cutout of Hitman in our cafeteria now; think stealth)
There are tons of people in DPE from Michigan; probably more […]
Now Scoble is demanding that the entire HP board resign. I love how people are backtracking now that it looks like Perkins and the others stink a lot worse than Dunn.
Scoble is lamenting the death of the “HP way”. Was the “HP way” the completely irrational (and overtly offensive) way that the old boys tore […]