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Original Jesus Official Random Quote (TM)

Why do people keep asking, "What would Jesus do?" How the hell should I know? I died for you, damnit! Haven't I done enough for you already? Pop gave you free will for a reason; make your own decisions!

— 'Original Jesus on the tribulations of being Himself.

This is taken from some blog

"Where do you see yourself in five years time?"
"I don't know - I don't have any special powers like that."

RFC 1984 is Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) Statement on Cryptographic Technology and the Internet.

I am quite sure this guy is talking about emacs and vi war

Similarly, I have heard people argue against a tool that they ignore based on the fact that it can do too much. Too much functionality in a tools is a problem only if unneeded or unwanted functionality somehow makes it harder to use the needed and wanted parts. I have heard people argue about the amount of memory a particular tool requires, whereas the additional memory required might represent a cost equivalent to a few hours of work at most. A favorite idea is to label a particular tool with a name suggesting what it ought to be doing, and then arguing that it is doing more than that. For instance, a text editor that is capable of automatic indentation would be accused of being a ``kitchen-sink'' tool because after all it does much more than allowing the user to just edit text.

< awormus> the funniest thing just happened
< awormus> we're having guests and my wife asked me what I'm going to wear
< awormus> so I said I was going to do the "Steve Jobs" thing
< awormus> she looked a bit puzzled and then said "You mean like ... "
           and started jumping around the room
< awormus> and I said "No, that's Steve Balmer"

Steve and Steve

And a witty error message does not look funny if it happens 5 times in 5 minutes.

and while I am in a ranting mood, what is the big idea in showing birthdays that have already elapsed

The above screenshots are from orkut - if you fail to recognize them that is

Originally posted Sat, 18 Oct 2003

This news article at BBC has a list of things that cause loss of data. The list reads more like The Foolish Things we do with our computers.

• Laptop shot in anger
• PC thrown out the window to destroy evidence before police arrived
• Laptop fell off a moped and was run over by lorry
• Laptop dropped in bath while doing company accounts
• Stolen PCs rescued after three weeks in a river
• Red wine spilt on laptop over dinner
• Server rescued after running unchecked 24/7 for years under layers of dust and dirt
• Computer thrown against a wall
• Latte-covered laptop rescued
• Laptop left on car roof as owner drives off

The article also asks its readers to share how they lost their data. The stories are funny. My favourite

My mother was so infuriated that she couldn't get something to print,  she proceeded to completely rip the keyboard and mouse out of the sockets and throw them out the window.

Originally posted Fri, 17 Oct 2003

This is really nifty. Good use of chemistry, DHTML and information design. This guy posted all the information about himself in a personal ad. He presented the whole thing as a periodic table. One cool hack. I will make one for myself too. See here for this guy's personal ad

addendum: 2 years later the link still works and I still have not made something like that for myself