Author: Dr Wingnut
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Preaching
A priest, a Pentecostal preacher and a rabbi all served as chaplains to the students of Northern Michigan University in Marquette. They would get together two or three times a week for coffee and to talk shop.One day, someone made the comment that preaching to people isn’t really that hard. A real challenge would be…
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How are your users?
"I support 10,000 users, all of which wake up every morning with their hair on fire." Larry Leibrock, University of Texas at Austin, on why billing problems make it harder to depend on his SkyTel Pager as his "Umbilical Cord." ComputerWorld, 6 Dec 1999
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Let’s pretend
Agency director is furious because his PC failed during an important presentation – and takes it out on pilot fish, who races in to repair it. Ignoring fish’s questions, director snarls, "Just fix it!" Fish spots the problem – the director had bumped the monitor’s power switch while changing floppy disks – and turns the…
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Check your calendar in November 2007
Dana Gross, chief marketing officer, M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd., Fremont, CA predicts: "Expect a terabyte of data storage in a cellular phone by 2007. This will be achieved through continued advancements in flash silicon and multilevel cell technology."Sounds pretty nice, but I still don’t have a flying car! I think I will follow-up in…
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How not to recover
The Twelve Steps of How Not to RecoverThese are the steps we took, which are suggested as a Program of Misery:We admitted we were powerless over nothing, that we could manage our lives perfectly, and those of anyone who would allow us to.We came to believe there was no power greater than ourselves, and the…