Category Archives: Rants

Mercury News is getting a lot of publicity for their hatchet job story about this guy who has had four failed Xbox 360s in a row. I really sympathize with him, since my own 360 is prone to locking up (particularly … Continue reading →

Today Microsoft appointed Steve Berkowitz as David Cole’s replacement as Senior VP of the Online Business Group (the organization formerly known as MSN). I think this is somewhat unusual as Steve is not a Microsoftie and usually Senior VPs are internal candidates … Continue reading →

Just came across this stinker from the Seattle PI while I was deleting all my RSS feeds:   "Sexson longs for World Series ring"   Well, that’s pretty obvious. Sexson is a professional baseball player. Presumably all professional baseball players … Continue reading →

How come every time I go on vacation Raymond links to my blog while I’m gone? How does he know? Amazing. I got over 1,000 hits in the last week on my Stupid Debugger Tricks thanks to the Raymond Effect.

After breakfast this morning I noticed this exciting text message on my phone:   Sent: 09/09/05 8:30:30 AM From: 501 alert@mobile.msn.com /MSFT is trading at 28.63, up 7.591% Wahoo! Call my broker! Call the Porsche dealer! Call in rich! Go Big M, … Continue reading →

While I was on vacation last week my little rant on the Microsoft picnic got me hit with the Raymond stick. I didn’t notice until this morning when I started to churn through my post-vacation email backlog. Cool, I thought, let’s go see … Continue reading →

I’ve been going to the Microsoft Company Picnic for a long time. I think this year is my 16th picnic (counting the one when I was an intern) I have always had a great time. Sure it is cheesy & … Continue reading →

Yet another Mandatory Training session everyone has to attend at work. I am so sick of these. What a waste of time and money. I wish they had one day a year and nominated it as Mandatory Training Day and … Continue reading →

So I finally had a free weekend afternoon and upgraded my wireless network. Threw out the ancient Aeronet (yes, before they got bought by Cisco) access point and replaced it with a new Linksys WRT54G. There are about a million … Continue reading →

Fun vbscript fact for today foo(bar) and set x = foo(bar) actually call foo differently. The first one passes ‘bar’ by value, the second one passes it byref. What kind of crazed lunatic thought this language up? Whoever it is, … Continue reading →