Month: March 2005

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Computer

Any man and his dog?

03/25/2005 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Any man and his dog?
Howard Adamsky’s article “Save Your Job” (Viewpoint, Jan. 2005) states that code is a commodity and suggests that any man and his dog could write it.  If it were so easy as the author and […]
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Quotations

Failure

03/24/2005 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Failure
“My dear Lascelles,” cried Drawlight, “what nonsense you talk!  Upon my word, there is nothing in the world so easy to expain as failure — it is, after all, what every body does all the […]
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Humor

Reality vs. Cinema in the Bush White House

03/24/2005 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Reality vs. Cinema in the Bush White House
The following piece appeared in The Onion issue 4108, 23 February 2005.  This publication, which has been appearing in local Twin Cities establishments lately used to be available only online.  Thanks Onion for brightening our […]
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Quotations

Are you busy?

03/23/2005 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Are you busy?
Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.Charles Peters
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Humor

Porn police

03/23/2005 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Porn police
One of the things that I am responsible for at the office is reviewing the email that my filtering vendor MessageLabs identifies as possible porn.  This one came in on 15 February.  Looks like a […]
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Quotations

Perfection

03/22/2005 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Perfection
Don’t waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence doing your best.Sir Lawrence Olivier