Recover day

I’ve been in situations like that before (or their Windows-based counterparts), and believe me – it’s NO fun at ALL.

Spam

You gotta give ’em credit for trying. Here’s a sample of some memorable spam emails I’ve noticed in the past few days.

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Joel on Software

“Just because you’re a programmer doesn’t mean you have to be the help desk for a dozen friends, relatives, and the people in the apartment next door. Does it?”

Folder Parsing

Some musing on a technical folder parsing problem I was working on (do you understand recursion?).

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Microsoft asks for help from hackers

This is actually quite refreshing, in a way. It’s good to see them trying to drive the point of security home to their programmers & executives. Who knows? Maybe Windows really will become more secure.

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