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Yearly Archives: 2012

SHEEIT, you’d better restart Visual Studio, I reckon.

From one of my favorite programmer fail sites, The Daily WTF (republished with permission): "We have some notoriously bad code in our project," wrote Robby...

You Can Teach The Class…[story]

Wanting to move ahead in the IT industry, I decided to go to university, but for that I needed to do an entry course...

…and in an instant, that glimmer of hope burnt out like a fried LED.

I'm not a techie. I'm a biology student. But I fiddle with computers a lot and have built a few of my own. This...

Literal woman is literal

(A customer has just bought a cellphone. She wants me to show her how to insert the SIM card. I open the cover on...

Helpful boss

"I got this ticket at about 7AM today. A VHD got too big for it's host because of a third party application we use. My...

Faildesk Byte: Laser printing

I had a customer call in and she said she could not print. I asked if it her printer was wired or wireless, she...

A truism of computers and programming

"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that...

WIN: Ransom Letter Keyboard [pic]

Ha!  "Z is for Zombie." Hmm...You know?  That'd be a great title for a kid's book.  I need to work on that... via:

Add USB Ports Instantly [story]

I get onsite and they tell me, "I can't get my flash drive to work. So we tried other ones too. So it definitely...

Brown Friday: User Submission

$500? Really?

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