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Dr Suess on Computers

Geno — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:01:22 +0000

This is truly geeky in every way, but oh so amusing. Laugh at it, laugh at me, laugh at yourself, laugh at what this world has turned into!

If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.
If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,
and the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash,
and your data is corrupted ’cause the index doesn’t hash,
then your situation’s hopeless and your system’s gonna crash!

If the label on the cable on the table at your house,
says the network is connected to the button on your mouse,
but your packets want to tunnel on another protocol,
that’s repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall,
and your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss,
so your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse,
then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang,
’cause as sure as I’m a poet, the sucker’s gonna hang!

When the copy of your floppy’s getting sloppy on the disk,
and the microcode instructions cause unnecessary risk,
then you have to flash your memory and you’ll want to RAM your ROM.
Quickly turn off the computer, and be sure to tell your mom.

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This is all over the internet, so I’d give credit to the author if only I knew who he/she was…sorry!

Google App

Geno — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:51:51 +0000

This morning Alex mentioned the Google App in their Diggnation podcast (Ep 61) and I thought I should take a look. You never know when you’re moonlighting on a random starry night what kind of tools might come in handy to spice up the already romantic atmosphere! Enough Geno! Leave the beautiful poetry for the girls…

Anyhow, at the part where you sign up (you know how it goes with these online internet thingies) I entered my phone number and added a + sign to indicate the international dial code. Actually, now that I mention that, what does the plus mean? It doesn’t matter, their website registration dude didn’t like it since he referred to me as null! Disgrace! His response looks like this:

Bear in mind that this podcast is from August 2006, so this platform has been out for a while. Somebody didn’t check their code! I just find it amusing. Maybe I should send this to Jeff…

I’ve said it all along!

Geno — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 07:20:33 +0000

This is probably very shortsighted of me, but I have believed from the start that Sony will fail with the PS3. After the whole rootkit DRM debacle a while ago, in my opinion the most pathetic show of crude greed, I have lost every bit of sympathy for this company. I believed from that moment on that whatever they do next, ie the PS3, they will screw it up. In my eyes atleast.

Blueray? Do we really care? In SA atleast HD TV is only _starting_ to catch on, and that is only with the upper part of the techno/audio phobes/philes (:)) WE DONT EVEN HAVE HD SIGNAL!!

So I truely don’t see the point. 99.999% of movies you could rent is just plain DVD. So just shows you how market babble can fool the uninformed masses enmasse…

So I was giggling like a little girl when I found this treasure of a picture (via digg.com of course

Sweet SQL!

Geno — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 19:41:09 +0000

Who said SQL ain’t sweet!?

This is from the original posting at The Daily WTF

The makings of a Dilbert strip

Geno — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:45:17 +0000

Converstation between me and a co-worker today:

Me [09:16]:
what happened to that fix u were doing for the 9051’s?
Co-worker [09:17]:
Waiting for the spec. Have done the code change, but can’t check in cos there is no spec

It speaks for itself!

Curios Perversions in Information Technology!

Geno — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:19:28 +0000

The Daily WTF is an awesome site where people come to tell stories about the craziest stuff-ups from their experience with the weird and wonderful world of IT.

The latest post (as of right now!) is about this newbie at ‘The Company’, little experience and ready to take over the world with the truckloads of energy he keeps in his back pocket…. [ hmmm, sounds somewhat like me... ]

The company has a code-base, which they just refer to as ‘The Behemoth’, that’s got maintenance written all over it and in between every 3rd line of code. It turns out the newb realizes that the world is not the place he once thought it would be…

I think I’ll be following this one for a while…