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The Big Red Fez is based on a simple yet effective analogy of a monkey (wearing a big red fez) being trained to jump into a vat of lime Jell-O, but to do so the monkey must be rewarded with a banana. If the search for that banana is not obvious, the monkey...
In the book Pollyanna (which I finished last night), she was always playing “the game,” finding the good in everything even while others saw the bad. I was that happy girl once, discovering Microsoft Reader on my PocketPC. Then I encountered...
I discovered Microsoft Reader for the Pocket PC this week. I've been digging my Dell Axim for over a year now, but never thought to check out Microsoft Reader until now. I've been denying myself something great! I'm reading Pollyanna (you know, Haley...
then check out the comments to “I LOVE IE” from the new ieblog team. God bless them. Someone's been drinking a little too much Kool Aid with their morning Flintstone Chewable Multiple Vitamins. A Microsoft manager walks into a room chomping...
No one expresses the longing for a life once lived as Meryl Streep with, “I...had a farm...in Africa.” My version? “I...had a coding job...in Pittsburgh.” I'm sure fellow developers can relate at one time or other with coding and...
I have no practical skills whatsoever, and yet I can open up a computer and fix darn-near anything that needs fixing. Oh, I hate doing it, of course, but I can do it. While I was shutting down the home office network I put my hand on my PDC server (Boomer...
I was the lead in interviewing several developer hires in recent years. I remember interviewing for a job myself while I was in a true Dilbert space several years back. I spent more time in Photoshop (because I wanted to and had nothing else challenging...
I just discovered this morning that the 1957 movie Desk Set is now available on DVD. The story evolves around an Electronic Brain (a computer) the size of an SUV and the romance between Spencer Tracy--the Electronic Brain's designer, and Katherine Hepburn...
I generate a substantial number of files and pics in my day-to-day work and typically add the month and year to a filename to denote the date and to avoid duplication. I'm quite pleased to add “69” today and am generating a TON of files. What...
I'm a developer. I love donuts. Don't bring bagels to my party. I eat donuts. I use self-checkout at my grocery store. I scan the barcode and put the thing in a bag. I come to my precious, my half-dozen donuts in the dozen-size container to keep donut...
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