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IDIOTS!

I don’t typically enjoy seeing a former employer go down the crapper, but in this case I think I’ll make an exception.

To SCO: bad luck, sleep poorly, and thank you very little. Oh, and die a flaming death. I can’t think of a company that deserves it more than you do.

…I can honestly say I officially don’t give one quarter of one half of one rat’s ass about the iPhone. I used to care, I really did. Those days are over.

G’way.

Can I hear a collective “EWWWWWW!!!!”

Twice today–TWICE–I got an unexpected and unappreciated neighbor when visiting the men’s room. TWICE. Nobody else in the room, stalls aplenty open and available for use…but no, NOT TODAY, these guys have to sit right next to me when they do their business.

Programmers, help me out here: Is this a software developer thing (my floor is dominated by developers)? Something about maintaining stacks, or linear thinking, or serialization? I can’t think of a single logical reason for a guy to choose stall #2 when stall #1 is occupied and stalls #3 and #4 are available.

Actually I can think of a reason, but I’d like to think positively about my co-workers.

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!

Is there a better way to pay homage the Eric Raymond of web usability? I think not.

Have at it.

If you’re in need of a uCsimm, Dallas Semiconductor Java TINI, HP 48G graphic calculator, one-button Apple mouse or a Logitech TrackMan Marble 3-button PS/2 mouse, head on over to eBay and buy, buy, BUY…

(Update, 3/22: So sad, it’s all gone. The grand total ended up being about $140 for the five items I sold. I should do this more often.)

^{This post has been translated from English to German and back to English. This post is so bad, it’s good. Don’t try to understand it. It’ll only hurt you.}

On applicable Maddox I explain way for the whole mass, which is this Mark Pilgrim ASS.

First away, Mark increased the Blödsinn of the text publisher wars to a complete new level, by persisting that all publishers everyone must have been at all already manufactured. O.k., fine. As over this is, Mark, Mr. dip in Pythonschlange: all operating systems, which are at all necessary, were already written. Or, all books on Pythonschlange, accesibility, XML and Greasemonkey even improve were already written. As, FAIR final letter IT, MARKING, o.k.? Cuz its it RÜBER, captain, and you is fair, wasting your time, by writing more.

Secondly he believes that everyone, that gives the donkey to a rat over letters everything has already a favourite text publisher, everything I estimates on the suggestion selected that the remainder of us over letter nothing is not serious. Over, rilly? I am that Mark selected its favourite publisher (emacs), but shoot me lucky, sometimes come somewhat better along and push out the office holder. Typical case: I still use VIM occasionally, but I find now BBEdit, in order to be more to my liking.

Thirdly „the new “publisher, who requested Mark’s invective (see http://diveintomark.org), is real a jewel: Writeroom, more beautifully, in disorder, on the whole screen publisher. No menus, no keys, no navigation of trees, nothing (if you this Misten wish, success ESC and her everything are it. Success ESC again and you are back completely screen fame). It is you and somewhat glowing text on a black background fair. I can do hypnotisiert, by its use to become me present, if you are in a dark area. How can someone, which writes and not in VI or in of emacs the mode is clung not code, hate this publisher? For this affair as you can hate a publisher? It is not alive, knows you. If you are not interested in it, USING Newsflash, HIM NOT.

A reference point for you, Mark: EVERYONE IS A CODER, AS YOU ARE. You unusually.

(By the way, I wrote this above in Writeroom. In honours of the Mark I can leave this virtual desk with Writeroom for the following week. Pffffhthtththththhhhh.)

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^{This post has been translated from English to German and back to English.}

I would like to be interested. I really. But, every time I hear telephone over Apples upcoming, is everything, which I would like to do to yawn. Mine only interest is here that Apple of a daily will only sell iPods and telephones can. It happened with PDAs handjumps (they are all Treos now, and them SUCKING). I doubt, which happens, but you never know.

Me not even keep begun on the rumors from Apple its own play console manufacturing.

(I communicate an update of the post Christmas life soon. At the moment I must go to work.)

Am I the only person hitting reload again and again on John Nack’s blog waiting for the “IT’S READY” signal? I’ve downloaded the beta and installed it, but Adobe’s registration page isn’t currently accepting CS2 serial numbers (at least not for educational versions of the software) so I can’t get a beta serial number. I guess you could say I’m anxious to try this.

Photoshop CS2 (hell, ALL of CS2) on Intel Macs can be painful. This beta will be the first time I’ll be able to see the true power of my 2 GHz Core Duo rig.

I’m such a loser. Aren’t there more important things to do?

[Update: Okay, I broke down and began my 2-day trial. I’m sure I’ll be able to snag a beta serial number in 2 days. All I can say is HOLY SHIZNIT, this is how Photoshop is SUPPOSED to run. A 178MB PSD (used for one of my clocks, shown elsewhere) opened in less than a minute, about the same time I’d have 1/4″ of progress with PS CS2. A 4.5MB JPEG loaded in seconds. Panning works without waviness. The UI is awesome. Blah blah blah. Unfrigginbelievable…]

It’s slow, it’s ugly, it’s buggy, it’s a step backward from v.1.5. I could go on, but I won’t.

Firefox reminds me of today’s Democrats: no identity other than “we’re not the other guys.” It takes more to make a browser good than simply not being IE. And considering the timing of IE7’s release, I consider FF2.0’s utter and complete lameness puzzling. Is anyone paying attention at Mozilla?

If not for extensions like the web developer toolbar, I’d delete Firefox entirely. What a P.O.S.

Back to Camino, I guess.

Update: Of course, I speak from a Mac standpoint only. Perhaps FF2.0 rocks on Windows and Linux. Who knows. On Macs, it’s always been somewhat lacking.