Gettin' Down in Detroit: The 2005 Launch Party

Dumb dying, these folks are not the sharpest tool in the shed

kimdorington — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:36:02 GMT

To celebrate individuals who have done a huge favor to the human race by eliminating themselves from it, the Darwin awards hold a special place in my heart. If you are into dark humor and have not read about these insane awards

you owe it to yourself to see these:[url=http://www.really-stupid.org ] Darwin Awards are class act humor. [/url].

Bandwidth Smandwidth?

ChristieFarrow — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 03:55:29 GMT

At a time of

of high bandwidth for internet users, why do people still worry about keeping webpages they build under 100k??

re: Gettin' Down in Detroit: The 2005 Launch Party

Brandon A. — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 03:34:19 GMT

Rockstar is amazing. I could drink it all day. But I'd rather not die of heart attack and too many stimulants at once.

One or two every now and then is fine.

I love the taste.

If the "NERDS" candy was liquid and carbonated, it would be this drink.

re: Gettin' Down in Detroit: The 2005 Launch Party

Vineet Reynolds — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 19:02:00 GMT

Just passing by.
LOL, since when did humour become open source , lol ?!?!
ROFLMAO.

Keep up the blogging. It was fun reading your blog after downloading SmartPaste. Now I must go back to the MSDN website to download the other tool that featured in "Ten Essential Tools :
Visual Studio Add-Ins Every Developer Should Download Now" .

On fanbois

Heh — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:05:00 GMT

> You know who I'm talking about, right? Those basement-dwelling fanboys who go to Microsoft conferences

...

> It's one thing to experience Visual Studio 2005 through your buddy's work's MSDN subscription, but you really feel alive having your own, fully-licensed copy of the software. I'm still buzzing from that.

Too bad I missed the fanboi slapfights :)

re: Gettin' Down in Detroit: The 2005 Launch Party

TomC@TJDevs — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 19:42:00 GMT

I live in Scotland and we get the road shows
here too, although I have never seen Steve Balmer or such. We get to talk to the uSoft UK
people and are all very nice down-to-earth
chaps, could easily be confused with Linux hippy geeks (you know them who want it all for nought and wear penguin badges!)
We get the fair laid on too; bags of crisps
and sconnes, notepads and the inevitable CDs.
There's always an unseemly rush for these and you can soon eek out the Linux Crashers.
Is it a Beta, Beta2, RC2 or what for SQL Server etc, I always get confused with uSoft
releases and product names...am I alone in this respect!

re: Gettin' Down in Detroit: The 2005 Launch Party

hank miller — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:47:00 GMT

Whenever I see I building downtown I ask "What would Gaudi do here". I think he would love that much glass, but only after he gets his workmen to smash it to smaller pieces.

We need some creative architechs who know how to build something that lasts, is function, and beatiful. Which is why I specified Gaudi and not some others.

BTW, did you demand the source to the carpet? How else would you know if it causes cancer in lab rats if you can look at the source and try it yourself? ;)

Honey

nraynaud — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:22:00 GMT

"Bonne maman" is the main confiture brand in France. I'm astonished that 1) they produce honey 2) in the US under a french brand.

re: Gettin' Down in Detroit: The 2005 Launch Party

smudge — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:53:00 GMT

Stop with the taking open source buildings seriously thing, already!

That B*nne M*man stuf is the devil's work - it's "Franch", you know - ze "Franch" make it.

You should be smearing yourself with this: www.tiptree.com

Now, I shall go back to reading TDWTF and smearing stuff on things...

re: Gettin' Down in Detroit: The 2005 Launch Party

Mandyhan — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:59:00 GMT

Sounds like a smart thing, open source buildings. Built only when the council has verified that it won't break, and you can verify it yourself if you don't trust it. Pity this isn't done with software that handles our critical information, and we have to live with simple promises on the security and safety of those systems. Oh well, I guess I have a natural distrust of programmers , because I know what they're like -- I am one myself. :)