George: We must do something! If we don’t do something, we’ll die eventually!
Nancy: Yes, if we don’t become immortal, we’ll die eventually.
George: I’m looking for the fountain of youth.
Nancy: That’s stupid. You are always looking, abandoning your home, and you still haven’t found it.
George: You have no plan! Your plan would have us die eventually. [...]
Joris Evers at CNET (that’s his e-mail) is now saying that you don’t need to upgrade to Vista; just keep your Windows XP machine patched. He claims that experts support this claim. The headline says “Experts: Don’t buy Vista for the security”.
If you only read the headline and first two paragraphs of his article, you’ll [...]
URIs are the words of the Internet. Dare posts a WTF about Java’s URI comparison operator, which is horrendously wrong. It’s like saying duck = electricity or “when I say bad, I mean good”. That totally belongs in the daily WTF.
I’ve been struggling with the converse this week, which is nearly as bad. MSDN pages have undergone [...]
Let’s give this video some link love. I liked the Bad Sinatra video better, but this is newsworthy.
Valleywag got the details wrong, twisted and distorted the truth. Why is everyone still hating on Scoble? 70 interviews with CEOs in 6 months. That’s incredible. It’s like a crash course in Silicon Valley business. Valleywag should partner with Podtech.
BillG makes a comment at Davos about a paper he read, and the world goes off into wild speculation. It’s pleasing that people still give us so much credit. But integrity is important; let’s not elevate an idle comment to the level of vaporware and FUD. My responses to some of the speculation:
Undercutting credit card [...]