May 13th, 2016

Is Metro on fire today?

Two fires in one day in the Washington, DC Metro inspired a single-serving-site: ismetroonfiretoday.com.

Answers the question on the tin.

Bonus chatter: One of my friends told me that a few jobs ago, the project he worked on had a problem with people checking changes into the project when the tree was supposed to be locked. And by “people”, he meant “pretty much just one guy in particular”. At a team meeting convened to discuss the problem, he somewhat sarcastically asked, “What do you want? A Web site called isthecontosotreelocked.com?”

The other developer said, “Hey, that’s a great idea.”

So my friend pulled out his credit card and bought the domain isthecontosotreelocked.com, and uploaded a one-word page: “No.”

Update: There’s another site ismetroonfire.com that claims to derive its fire/no-fire information by monitoring Twitter.

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Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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