|
Sean Ewington wrote: Shall we play a game?
This isn't the one where you cut off one of my fingers if my lighter doesn't light, is it? I don't like that one.
|
|
|
|
|
But you've ... played that one?
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
|
|
|
|
|
I avoid visiting the twilight zone as much as possible.
|
|
|
|
|
I think you'll find you're off the mark. It's a reference to Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected if my memory serves me correctly.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
|
|
|
|
|
Doh!
You're right. I had this tiny bit of doubt that it wasn't the Twilight Zone that I saw that story, and I thought it was "The Four Rooms" by four different directors, this one Quentin Tarantino.
and yes, a quick search confirms Roald Dahl.
And lists that it has been adapted for television and movies at least four times.
With that being said, I still avoid the twilight zone whenever possible. 
|
|
|
|
|
Blocked at work. (First time this's happened in a while.  )
Is this worth remembering to take a look at when I get home tonight?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
|
|
|
|
|
I thought it was pretty interesting the things they ask you to do. If you can't look tonight I will paraphrase the story for you 
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
|
|
|
|
|
Getting the link to me at home's generally not an issue, I just email it to my personal address. The problem is that from there the typical workflow is to ignore it on arrival in favor of more important things, let it get buried in my inbox, and then a few weeks/months later get annoyed by the amount of unread mail in my inbox and read them all at once. 
I was asking because I didn't want to bother if it was on the level of one of the near content free sites - sdtimes, infoworld (no IE auto miscorrect; this pile of dog barf isn't worthy of capitalization), infoq, etc - that Kent regularly uses to pad slow news days.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
|
|
|
|
|
From what I can tell it's just a blog, but with a similar setup to tumblr. I'm not all that familiar with it though.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
|
|
|
|
|
Figures. The monkey's maintaining bluecoat's list have categorized it as social networking. Meanwhile twitter and farsebook are now accessible without restriction.  (It uses to require wasting 10-30 minutes of your life for a web-based social network training course. I can only imagine the fail level involved since I never took it on general principles.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
|
|
|
|
|
Version 1.8 of Google's JavaScript contender adds new libraries and experimental support for 'enum' types. What's the point?
|
|
|
|
|
Why use a standard, when you can have a google-oriented thing? It might be appealing for their purposes, but not for me.
|
|
|
|
|
The holidays are packed with opportunities to raise a glass of our favorite boozy beverages and toast family, friends and good fortunes. But our ability to digest rum-spiked eggnog may be due to a massive climate shift that occurred millions of years ago. We owe them so much
|
|
|
|
|
Docker containers are one of the hottest technologies around and CoreOS, a Linux-based operating system for very large server deployments, built its service around Docker containers and contributed heavily to the project. But as the company announced today, it is now working on its own container runtime, largely because it disagrees with Docker’s overall direction. Just when I had figured out what Docker was... ;(
|
|
|
|
|
Kent Sharkey wrote: Just when I had figured out what Docker was..
...and you're not seeing any correlation in this? 
cheers
Chris Maunder
|
|
|
|
|
Kent Sharkey wrote: it is now working on its own container runtime, largely because it disagrees with Docker’s overall direction.
Its the Linux - Open Source way. They just keep letting their egos get in the way and branch the software! In a few years there will be as many Docker distros as there are Linux distros.
Meanwhile Microsoft will get tired of it all and create their own. Version 1 & 2 will suck. Version 3 will be acceptable and version 4+ will rock. Face it - we've all seen this before. 
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
|
|
|
|
|
November 2014 was a big month for the Web. We saw the release of Chrome 39, the debut of Firefox Developer Edition, and now we’re learning the latest version of Internet Explorer is used by one in four Internet users. Furthermore, the most hated browser version on the planet, IE6, has finally fallen below the 1 percent market share mark. Ding, dong. The witch is (almost) dead
|
|
|
|
|
WOOOOHOOOO!
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
|
|
|
|
|
Anyone know how the major version release of Chrome 39 differs from the major version release of Chrome 38?
Maybe we should have a browser drinking game: everytime a browser manufacturer releases a new major rev you have to take a shot.
cheers
Chris Maunder
|
|
|
|
|
As my teacher told me - by learning how to prepare good statistics, you learn how to prove everything you want...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
|
|
|
|
|
Or to put it differently, never trust statistics you haven't doctored yourself.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
(√-sh*t) 2
|
|
|
|
|
In an interview with The Seattle Times, Huawei’s head of international media affairs, Joe Kelly, has revealed the company didn’t make money from its two handsets running Windows Phone, and that "nobody made any money in Windows Phone." But... 4.3% of the market!
|
|
|
|
|
Microsoft’s Office team today announced it is doing away with Clip Art’s online image library and replacing it with Bing Image Search. Microsoft had clip art?
|
|
|
|
|
Bing Images.
So catchy.
When, oh when, will they rebrand their search engine and give it a non-stupid name?
cheers
Chris Maunder
|
|
|
|
|
Chris Maunder wrote:
When, oh when, will they rebrand their search engine and give it a non-stupid name?
Just as soon as they get a new VP?
Mind you, they'll probably go with something even worse. "Just NorthWind it." "Contoso it"
TTFN - Kent
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
