Dr Wingnut

Author: Dr Wingnut

  • Struts wierdness

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    The following post came through the stuts-developers list today as an off-topic item: Save the servers. It was very funny. Then James Childers at Hotels.com posted: Arr, but the bleedin’ scurvy ridden dogs of Redmond shall cowardly stab ye in the back should y’ever tryyy. And yer mad-as-a-hatter CIO will look at the shiny treasures…

  • You are The Cap’n!

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    Some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some slit the throats of any man that stands between them and the mantle of power. You never met a man you couldn’t eviscerate. Not that mindless violence is the only avenue open to you – but why take an avenue when you have complete freeway…

  • General Quotes

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    There is no failure except in no longer trying.Elbert Hubbard… never takeno cutoffs, and hurry along as fast as you canVirginia Reed,one of the survivors of the Donner Party to CaliforniaAssumption is the mother of all fuck-upsCharacter Ben in movie Under Siege 2, Dark TerritoryUNEXPLORED, UNEXPOSED,UNEXPRESSED, YOUR WHOLE LIFE IS A MISTAKE.Jonathan Lord.  Assembled out…

  • Frivolous Macromedia Sites

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    Time wasters from Internet Week Magazine

  • Learning how to lead geeks

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    A Conversation with C2 Consulting’s Paul GlenIf you’ve ever given what you thought was an incredibly passionate speech to a roomful of unmoved, unblinking developers, you can take solace in knowing that you’re not alone. Indeed, C2 Consulting’s Paul Glen has seen so many similar scenarios throughout his years as a management advisor that he…

  • Too cheap to meter

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    Nuclear critics frequently claim that nuclear energy has failed to deliver on its early promise of “electricity too cheap to meter.”  The only source of this quotation is a talk in New York on September 16th, 1954, to the National Association of Science Writers by Admiral Lewis L. Strauss, then Chairman of the U.S. Atomic…

  • Alcoholism: Illness or Disease

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    Dr. Joy is correct that Drs. Rush and Trotter regarded alcoholism as a disease almost 200 years ago.  Jellinek, however, is considered by many to be the most influential proponent of alcoholism as a disease in the 1950s.  He presented a disease model for alcoholism, described four classes of drinkers and invented what is known…