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I might stop by from time to time to see what’s going on, but I’m out. This is just total bullshit.

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“We are where we are.”
This quote is John McCain. He’s used it on multiple occasions during interviews to dodge questions.
“We don’t know what we don’t know”
This I hear at least once a week. Both quotes mean nothing. Repeated use of them is grating to everyone that has to listen to it. Just say,
“I don’t [...]

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Here’s a colleague’s nice way of talking about someone behind their back:
I’d Say It In Front of Her/Him, but they really are not good at <insert task>.
I’m not sure if this is unnecessarily mean or smooth and soft-skills best practice. Maybe both. Part of managing is getting the right people doing the right tasks and [...]

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Microsoft gives the big up yours to people trying to use Visual Studio 2008 for creating Reporting Server projects on SQL Server/Reporting Service 2005. This bit one of my developers in the ass today. I firmly believe that Microsoft’s heyday will be remembered from a end user perspective as Windows XP SP2, and from the [...]

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These stats on Google Reader’s keyboard shortcuts are pretty interesting but what would really be great is a way to reliably open up the original item in a new tab. The ‘v’ shortcut seems to act differently depending on the item and I can never quite figure out why this happens. Often times the original [...]

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Fogless shaving mirror got you down? It started fogging up again didn’t it? Bastard. A simple fix is to get a little bar soap on your hand and smear it on the mirror before each time you want to use it. Keeps the mirror fog free and you from buying any more “fogless” mirrors.

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When in a meeting about a subject they can’t be bothered with thinking about, one of our team member’s famous catch phrases is:
“..I’m just going to gloss over this so we can be efficient…”
It’s kind of hilarious because everyone can tell she means, “Hey asshole, I don’t care.” Very professional. It’s kind of not [...]

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I noticed this Sunday while reading the New York Times online that when you are in the main text of an article, double-clicking anywhere on the body of the article causes a pop-up window to spawn. The pop-up contains a dictionary definition of the word that has been highlighted by your double-click action. This is [...]

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