09 Feb 2006, 21:04 p.m.

Error Messages From The Bard

A zillion years ago, back when Leonard was one of the editors of Segfault (a geek humor site with user-submitted content), I wrote and he published this bit: If Shakespeare Wrote Error Messages What a …

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07 Feb 2006, 10:30 a.m.

Credit Card Tips

It's very useful to have a credit card; a credit card is convenient, especially in emergencies, and helps build a good credit rating if you use it responsibly and live within your means. CNN Money …

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06 Feb 2006, 15:10 p.m.

MC Masala On Food, Again

Nabisco Brand Oreo Snack Cookies or whatever the correct term is. My new company is tiny, with only about eight names to memorize, camaraderie around the lunch table and fast decisions on administrative trivia. But …

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05 Feb 2006, 20:40 p.m.

Sketch Mayhem

I met up with an old friend of Nandini's on Saturday night to watch some sketch comedy. Incidentally, Nandini is not only pursuing two simultaneous Master's degrees, she also just visited China for a few …

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04 Feb 2006, 13:25 p.m.

Calling the Waaaaahmbulance

Good Lord, I miss my friends. California people: I miss you all.

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04 Feb 2006, 8:57 a.m.

Running Cliches Through The Cuisinart

Hey Leonard, how did Collabnet work out for you? Like Leonard, I got book-reading as an initial task at my new job. I accidentally powered through Influence and the Carnegie way too fast because I …

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02 Feb 2006, 8:23 a.m.

Reminder

For those of you who don't recall what I'm doing at Fog Creek: I am a trainee in the Fog Creek Software Management Training Program, which means that around the office I am known as …

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01 Feb 2006, 21:23 p.m.

Is It True?

Female soldiers at Camp Victory in Iraq, afraid of being raped by male soldiers, drank less liquid so they wouldn't have to go to faraway latrines at night. And then some died of dehydration. Could …

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01 Feb 2006, 7:16 a.m.

Too Geeky To Put In MC Masala

It still amuses me that TiVo's abbreviation (and possibly the official abbreviation) for The Food Network is FOODP. If you've read Levy's Hackers or are otherwise familiar with LISP slang, you'lll recognize "foodP" as "do …

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29 Jan 2006, 9:15 a.m.

Two Weeks' Worth of Columnity

Actually published last week: On the mini-International-House I lived in, years ago.The Frenchman, The Italian, The Mexican, The Texan and I had all answered an ad on Craigslist.org for rooms in an apartment in Berkeley. …

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