Time for some humour. Check out this humourous article on the evolution of a programmer. It’s fairly accurate, or is it? Exeunt Omnes

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Isn’t this a bit ironic? Mikhail Kalashnikov backs, of all things, gun control. It’s a bit like when Alfred Nobel unleashed the destructive force of dynamite on the world and then instituted the Nobel Peace prize. This is what The Guardian has to say about Mikhail’s brainchild: Fifty-six years, more than 100m guns, and many [...]

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“Just play it”, she urged. “But, but the odds are staggering. You can’t seriously expect to pick seven correct numbers out of 80. You might just get one or two, but never enough to make a profit”, he droned. “Just play it”, she urged. So he did, and promptly lost. Vindicated by losing, he turned [...]

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My Yahoo! username is sunhate and for obscure reasons I get the occasional bot that tries to talk to me, in an attempt to boost the hits on their webpage or actually get some poor shmucks to sign up. While not badly programmed, they lack the most rudimentary error checking. At least check if the [...]

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Apparently, the BBC, the beacon of civilization and all that rot, has mucked up once again. The incident occured last month when they interviewed a taxi driver on one of their shows, mistaking him for an expert on internet music downloads. How do these things happen? To their credit, they had the gumption to apologize [...]

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Beheaded man’s father: Revenge breeds revenge Michael Berg talks about the death of his son and al-Zarqawi Thursday, June 8, 2006 Posted: 1841 GMT (0241 HKT) A terror-linked Web site showed Nicholas Berg being beheaded, likely by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Image: A gruesome video was posted on Islamic Web sites in May, 2004, depicting a [...]

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