Warhammer: Dawn of War II is quite fun http://store.steampowered.com/app/15620/

ever wake up from a bad dream (literally, not a metaphor) that's so bad it makes you grouchy for the rest of the day? today was like that

I explain how Tupac Shakur vandalized our website, but unfortunately not in early-90's gangsta rap style: http://is.gd/kkuq

to be clear, I was only referring to recent stackoverflow manual user-entering-captcha-over-and-over spams.. appear to be from AUS, mostly

why are so many of these problem spam IPs from Australia? Have we learned nothing from the Conchords? AUSTRALIA = EVIL

to be clear, the 2Pac thing is not a bot. He's solving captchas. Imagine how many books he's helped OCR! Thanks 2Pac!

the clown sweater project http://web.archive.org/web/20031008224806/www.slapda.sh/csall.html

Trahimur omnes laudis studio

stackoverflow users I love you BUT YOU MAKE ME CRAZY SOMETIMES http://is.gd/kiB4

just be sure you have logged into your old, existing OpenID *first*. That part is important.

Ubuntu's naming strategy is not doing itself any favors. Ubuntu 10 Krazy Krustacean!

"I'm still waiting for the Eminem/Triumph the insult dog coop adventure game." http://www.50bloodonthesand.com/us/

Kayne West "dresses gay" because the rainbow is "fresh" http://tinyurl.com/cyy4py

OK, this whole "we don't believe in vaccinating our children" thing has got to be stopped. http://store.xkcd.com/#Science

I had forgotten how awesome http://www.bash.org/?top was. Let us all celebrate the loamy richness of the lolz.

Like puppies, flowers, and Kenny G solos, love is forever.

a moderate distance dedication from me, to George Lucas: http://is.gd/kcqE

sure, my password. it's ●●●●●●●●●●●●.

one problem with the cloud: sometimes, it's raining. http://tinyurl.com/a2twr4

my first network attached storage mini-review -- http://tinyurl.com/b8yba3

who is the Dick on your site? http://tinyurl.com/clo9es

Senior Brandon Miller wore a shirt with the words, "Hitler gave great speeches, too" above a picture of Obama. http://is.gd/k45Q

it's so hard to find places that will break a hundred dollar bill. #firstworldproblems

wow, it takes about 17 hours to "synchronize" four 640 GB hdds in a RAID 6 array on the QNAP 409u.

when JPEG artifacts attack! aah! http://tinyurl.com/cjxzt6

well, since there's literally no way to click the reply arrow with the keyboard, that ain't happening. Sorry.

scary article about wear levelling problems on Intel's SSDs http://is.gd/jY9A

usability matters. It's the reason we had 8 years of G.W. Bush. http://tinyurl.com/akoasg

skynet research has been activated http://www.skynetresearch.com/outreach/

apparently the "Jobs Board" vortex has claimed another victim. So sad.

Google really is where startups go to die. "Do you like my hat? It's made of MONEY!" http://tinyurl.com/5dvbuk

I hope the FeedBurner crew is enjoying their big Google payday, I guess. Build, Get Paid Yo!11!, Abandon, Screw Customers.

epic implosion of FeedBurner continues. Just got weird personal email from someone at Google about AdSense required, and "immediate action"?

only in Berkeley: Berkeley High School Presents "The Vagina Monologues." http://is.gd/k0cJ

wow, this 409u NAS device *really* hated the random SATA hard drive I had laying around for testing. Wouldn't initialize with it.

after watching a lot of blu-ray and hi-def rips, standard definition TV feels positively YouTubian at this point

my ad code is a disgrace to a) software development and b) advertising

the new trash cans are here! the new trash cans are here! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079367/quotes

tv tropes will consume your mind http://tvtropes.org

when will Microsoft's support of OpenID go "live", no pun intended? Currently in private beta.

"On Twitter, the message from Bay honcho Peter Sunde is, appropriately, this: EPIC WINNING LOL." http://is.gd/jQpu

@kevidente they offer mouseover tooltips, though. Almost everything on screen has a tooltip on SO.

woke up singing Barry White for no reason whatever. I song virus'ed myself. http://is.gd/jQHB

everything I need to know about childcare I learned from Raising Arizona http://tinyurl.com/5ptl5b

leaving FireBug enabled causes some .. unusual.. firefox behaviors for me. I have to disable it in the add-ons menu when not using it.

you're filling my rage meter again! don't make me use my rage combo! http://tinyurl.com/atxrxa

it's been raining like crazy here. NO NOT LIKE THAT http://www.boneboy.com/costume/pictures/92wetgrl.jpg

looks like a few people are going to get the Specialist badge in "Subjective" unless I blacklist that one. Thoughts?

Uwe Boll, "The Ed Wood of Germany", turns to crowdsourcing to finance his latest magnum opus http://is.gd/jJ7g

"I took out 'douchebags' and replaced it with 'vapid bureaucrats'" http://tinyurl.com/caezgu

working on the mythical "Specialist" badge

"This was caused by a BGP route announcement with an excessively long AS path." http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg15469.html

there was an hour long site outage, getting ready to email our providers about why..

Assert().That().This(actual).Is().Equal().To(expected).Except().If(x => x.GreaterThan(10)); // KILL ME NOW

looks like network outage ; I can't get to stackoverflow either, but .. http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/stackoverflow.com

iPhone pocket guitar! http://tinyurl.com/4rlj5l

Is it a holiday? I only know it's a holiday when the Google logo changes.

Gene Simmons never had a personal computer when he was a kid http://toastytech.com/guis/bananaad.gif

"the infinite process of comparing the invisible to the ambiguous so as to avoid the unthinkable happening to the anonymous"

conclusion: hardcore software testers are awesomely effective.. but scary http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000690.html

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'

if I grow a third eye because of all this diet soda I drink, know that it will be watching you all very closely

I would like to know what crack-addled developer at Microsoft came up with the Task Scheduler UI in Win2k8. face-meltingly insane.

KITTENS! inspired by.. KITTENS!!!! http://tinyurl.com/d88a58

do the math: overnight shipping a 2TB hard drive, versus network cost of same xfer. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000783.html

doing some of the math on multi-gb database backups, it turns out one of the most expensive parts is actually bandwidth! sneakernet FTW

I had TOTALLY forgotten about Friday the 13th in space. http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi4237426969/

SNL mining a rich vein of Wii comedy cold http://tinyurl.com/a9j3r8

"What is a game? Should there be a definition for a game? That's the way I feel." http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/57251

OK, why does *this* crap happen -- User: "wasn't me!" Us: "according to our logs, you have an IP address in common" User: ...

If you're blue and you don't know where to go to http://is.gd/jChx

@Thaurlom lol at the anti-BMP-iness of http://www.xkcdb.com/?5102

whitespace at the ends of lines. I know it's there, but I can't *see* it. This is the stuff OCD horror movies are made of.

QUICK! your favorite Barry White song? Here's mine http://tinyurl.com/boe3ow

"Windows 7 On Track for Holiday Launch." Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle. I swore they'd never pull it off in 2009. Get off the XP crack!

realizing that, to involve moderators in the IT stackoverflow, I need to explain it to them thusly: "You get to be the HAND. OF. GOD."

ah, Simon of the Desert is out on DVD http://tinyurl.com/bcgch8

there should be a special award for people who link images, in this day and age, as .bmp files.. c'mon!

new simpsons intro for HDTV http://tinyurl.com/bhkw2q

I am updating raid drivers remotely, but I am not quite ballsy enough to update the raid controller BIOS remotely... YET

building up another Lenovo RS110 server for @superdalgas on valentine's day. so romantic...

funny how so much of the stuff described on http://highscalability.com/ ends up being hashtables in memory. REVOLUTIONARY!!!!1!

oh YouTube commenters, you're so delightfully retarded http://tinyurl.com/ahtr23

@lizziecrowe my work here is done! just be glad it wasn't the Magnum, P.I. theme or the Rockford files theme.. <ducks>

This ain't sea world, this is as real as it gets http://tinyurl.com/ckncf2

why am I singing the A-Team theme song? http://is.gd/jwDG

My name is Jeff, and I can't stop thinking about programming. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000856.html

ahh, I see. LISP is Blub. There's your problem, right there. http://tinyurl.com/6m4s4w

ok now I feel bad.

errr.. did we just crash Hacker News?

@smackaysmith it's doubly funny because we serve up a 5x larger HTML payload (!). Looks like hacker news isn't using gzip compression.

@smackaysmith firebug says ycombinator takes ~600ms to load, stackoverflow takes ~400ms. Pressed F5 a bunch of times, same results.

"Paul Graham doesn't need Viagra. He is NP-hard." http://tinyurl.com/yq9lx8

wow, Hacker News is slow. Sheez. Guess they should have picked a faster stack, like the Microsoft one we use. =8-D

although, I sometimes wonder how much unit test coverage is appropriate for an iPhone fart app. 100%? Get some UML in there, people!

He's like "our deployment is sweet!" I'm like "dude, you're deploying a 3d chat game for tweens." Congratulations, I guess http://is.gd/j4Bh

If I worked on "IMVU: 3D Avatar Chat Instant Messenger & Dress Up Game", I'd be too embarrassed to blog about it, frankly.

Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter http://is.gd/js1q

we're pretty regularly doing 500k/day pageviews now. Stack Overflow: None of Us Is as Dumb as All of Us (tm)(c)(r)

cloud services are great for flexibility, but they all sell the same "customers won't notice how our monthly fees add up" snake oil