Hidden game in Internet Explorer
June 24th, 2009I had to try this…
Well, it made me laugh, anyway
I had to try this…
Well, it made me laugh, anyway
Eric, over at Shoulders of Midgets has a very nice little piece on what is, and what isn’t an operating system. For those who want the short version: it’s not Word.
It reminds me of what someone said in response to Sun’s “The Network Is The Computer” slogan: “The computer is the computer; the network is the wiry spaghetti-like bit that comes out the back. Apologies for any confusion caused…” (anyone know who, by the way?)
…when these mean something to you (response to this…)
You’ve been in computers too long when…
* – The sun rises twice in one day. Kurt Godel spotted this. Not me.
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Or not clever enough?
If you answer that question, you lose your own Buddha nature. Or maybe you don’t.
I’ve been using the excellent freeware RSS reader Feedreader for ages; great for keeping up with my RSS feeds (Thunderbird can do much the same, but for some reason I find I prefer Feedreader…)
Having installed it in XP I wanted to portable-ise* it so I could use it in my Windows 7 setup. Turns out – thanks to this post – that it’s rather easy to do… Read the rest of this entry »