I just met you, and this is crazy, but here’s my callstack. Debug me maybe.
February 26, 2018Feb 26, 201802/26/18You gave me nothing at all, but still, you’re in my way.
February 26, 2018Feb 26, 201802/26/18February 26, 2018Feb 26, 201802/26/18The social skills of a thermonuclear device: Ruining a conversation
September 20, 2016Sep 20, 201609/20/16The party’s over.
Sorry for the interruption, but it doesn’t happen often
June 23, 2015Jun 23, 201506/23/15Be right back.
Bitter or acerbic? or does it make a difference?
June 9, 2015Jun 9, 201506/9/15What does that word mean?
You can read as well as I can, or maybe not
July 2, 2013Jul 2, 201307/2/13Occasionally, somebody will ask for help on a distribution list,
and it turns into a really annoying case of hand-holding.
From: X
I’m using the XYZ toolset to do some document management,
and I want the server to run a script whenever somebody tries to
modify the master template,
If you're asking somebody to help you, you want to make it easy for them, not harder
November 6, 2012Nov 6, 201211/6/12A customer liaison asked a question that went roughly like this:
From: Liaison
My customer is having a problem with the header file winfoo.h. The environment is Windows Vista German SP1 with Visual Studio 2008 Professional German SP1 and Windows SDK 6000.0.6000 German.
The day I stole Joe Belfiore's mouse
September 18, 2012Sep 18, 201209/18/12He’s now the head demo-monkey/cheerleader for Windows Phone, but back in the old days, Joe Belfiore was the head demo-monkey/cheerleader for the Windows 95 user interface design. A team-wide meeting was held to show off the new interface that they had developed.
Management fallacy: If I send people email, then they will work harder
June 30, 2010Jun 30, 201006/30/10A project many years ago neared the conclusion of one of its project milestones. Things were getting down to the wire, and upper management was concerned that the project may not reach the milestone on schedule.
To ensure success, they decided to send email.
The best way to prove somebody incompetent is to make up stuff and then point out that it's idiotic
June 23, 2010Jun 23, 201006/23/10One way to show that somebody is incompetent is to tell them that something they’re doing is stupid, even when it’s not what they’re doing. Take for example this comment saying that it’s stupid for copy and paste to use data objects which can allow code to execute.
A decidedly Canadian response to the shambles that was the running portion of the modern pentathlon in Beijing
February 12, 2010Feb 12, 201002/12/10Living so close to the United States-Canada border means that there’s a lot of friendly teasing of the many Canadians in our midst. It’s a good thing Canadians as a whole seem to have a pretty good sense of humor about it.