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Archive for April 2008

Fanboy Supercuts from Waxy

In goodstuff, humor, idiocy on 11 April 2008 with no comments

Great post over there today. My favorites have been the Every Turbo Boost in Knight Rider one and The Big Lebowski – The Fucking Short Version.

Which Came First, the Download or the Downloader?

In horseshit, idiocy, technology on 2 April 2008 with no comments

This Greenhouse business is ridiculous. Most downloader-type applications are. Do I really have to: Download the Greenhouse installer (2.6M)  Open the file only to have it immediately start downloading what I can only assume is the core of some bit-torrent-esque windows client (Indeterminate size) Start the application to go download the FREE content I’m looking [...]

VB6? April Fools!? Nope.

In consultants, horseshit, idiocy, microsoft, technology on 2 April 2008 with no comments

My first programming internship used VB6 (1998), and it was great at the time. My first real job was mainly Classic ASP (2001), and I didn’t have a problem with that either. We just got back a proposal from a consulting company to revamp one of our aging CD-ROM based products and my jaw hit [...]