custom twitter profile shirts http://shirt.social-shirt.com/index.html

actually if *anyone* knows a sysadmin/IT blogger who would be good (and available) to moderate/helm the IT-themed SO please email me

based on prev list, Americans are a bunch of sex crazed pot smoking poker players, whose medical insurance won't cover their weed. great.

first job of Obama adminstration? appease the stoners, apparently http://is.gd/fTNH

programming without semi-colons? madness! I want each and every one of you freaks to PERSONALLY apologize to Kernighan and Ritchie.

failed raid, busted semi-colon key. I hereby proclaim this the Worst. Day. Ever. <cries>

omg the semicolon key just started working intermittently on my keyboard. not joking. It's god's way of punishing lapsed vb.net programmers

Enjoy feeling completely negligible. http://is.gd/giyk

well, I'll be damned. Port #6 of the 6 drive raid array on the Lenovo RD120 is definitely&permanently bad. Confirmed with multiple hdds.

these Lenovo drive rails sure *look* like Torx but my t-10 driver can't drive them worth a crap. Grr. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torx

people *still* fall for Nigerian 419 scams? C'mon humans. http://is.gd/fQTM

So the director of the Asimov Foundation films will be Roland Emmerich? Well, balls. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117998687.html

remember those creepy x10 camera peeping tom ads? Yeah. They have embraced their inner evil: http://www.x10.com/homepage.htm

CS / game development students make a pinball game play HORSE http://tinyurl.com/a2aluv

Bush's accomplishments: 1 The Daily show. 2 the No-call list. 3 Obama as president.

I've been playing a lot of this game to prepare myself for fatherhood http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/4828/superturbobabypuncher3wl7.jpg

never mind, too much effort to explain all the heuristics we use. remember we have cookie based "accounts" too. 4 month old cookie? er.. no.

I said "with no significant activity", eg rep = 1. Why have a login when you haven't done anything?

what's a good inactivity threshold for deleting user accounts with no significant activity? 4 months?

wow, you can watch the full length movie (via Hulu) from the IMDB page for "The Nude Bomb"? Crazy! http://is.gd/gcEd

I didn't realize Intel was already selling a 6-core Xeon CPU. Bit spendy at $2,400 though.

hey sweet! The basic LSI 1064E RAID on the lenovo 1u server *does* support live mirror rebuilds! Just not hot swapping; requires reboot.

I much prefer "dumbass programmer, Jeff Atwood." I guess it's too much to ask for accuracy on the internet.

can I please redact all the places on the internet that say "rockstar programmer" and "Jeff Atwood"? #1 not true! #2 how did this happen?

a behind the scenes look at the development of Apple's Lisa http://is.gd/gbuZ

reminds me of my favorite game, Ms. Sawhorse Detective. http://tinyurl.com/7e4tpp

"fallback idea is to just call the site Ms. Stack Overflow and have it look exactly the same, except with a pink bow on the logo." AWESOME

is.gd appears to be downforeveryoneandnotjustme.com

god I love working in virtual machines. Complete install of crap software? Yes! Netscape 4.x as my default browser? sure! why not!

Netscape 4.x does allow font inc/dec. And it can load google.com. Finally, a decent modern web browser!

hmm. Netscape 3.04 doesn't allow the user to inc/dec font size. What was the first browser to do this? IE?

installing netscape navigator 3.04 in a vm. hilarity: can't even load google.com at all

finally, the weekend. Now I can get some *programming* done. Sheez.

"Turing Award Winner badge! Do it! Plus, people can’t complain that it is unobtainable."

there are no winners in the endless Digg-Reddit war, only losers. http://tinyurl.com/a3cx2d

wow, so Chrome has *no* equivalent to Firefox 3's excellent Zoom feature? Am I missing something?

man, there is NO WAY I'll be able to get @betsyphd to play a Metallica-themed fake plastic rock game with me. http://is.gd/ga73

dogs are an elephant's best friend, after all http://tinyurl.com/7t2tzr

Please, won't someone think of the sea kittens?

PETA redubs Fish "Sea Kittens" http://tinyurl.com/9rvb5l

Remember Sega's oddball game, Seaman? that guy now makes (rejected) iPhone games. http://is.gd/g5AC

advertisers who demand that their ad links "not be nofollowed" are not, in my experience, good business partners

Stockard Channing hates anecdotes. http://tinyurl.com/8umlad

The Politics of Dancing -- for my money, the very pinnacle of 80s schmaltz synthrock http://tinyurl.com/5kczmw

"until finalization which happens at a time you cannot control." but in *many* cases that time happens to be "good enough". That's my point.

@isegal you seriously think I don't know about the Using statement? OK, I did just learn how "loops" work, but still..

the only line of code containing .Dispose() in stack overflow, part of ControllerBase: if (_db != null) _db.Dispose();

I believe .Dispose() is a form of optimization, which is necessary *sometimes* but not *always*. Anyone got links with evidence otherwise?

"BTW ‘rack’ doesn’t (yet) have the same mammary connotations in UK English as it does in US english." gtk, but we won't be going that route

I gotta see this "Mac and Me" movie. It's Paul Rudd approved. http://tinyurl.com/6htd7c

Today is the 90th anniversary of the Great Boston Molasses Flood. http://is.gd/fUiB

crazy video/audio remix of Weezer's Pork and Beans http://tinyurl.com/aybk9l

the internet for dummies by dummies http://tinyurl.com/7xhzl9

good ol' finnegan the squirrel. http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/finnegan.asp

wow! a whole $60 a month to link to your poker site from my not-remotely-poker-related blog??? where do I sign up!

"The Macintosh was originally intended to be a very low cost, high volume personal computer." http://is.gd/fXzP

If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, there's going to be one big-ass fight over where to set the thermostat.

a friendly so user registered rackoverflow.com -- I am warming up to this name. Any strong opinions one way or the other?

bah, false alarm. already registered. sigh. naming = hard.

OMG, did someone just vomit on my browser!? Wait, never mind, it's just GoDaddy.com.

ooh, got a really good domain name suggestion. so good I have to register it right now, I fear for it.

@aboyko yeah, it's not nearly as bad as it was in the Apple // days. Well, except for the Mac Pro. http://is.gd/fWnM

I am somewhere between a deletionist and an inclusionist. I'm a delclusionist.

Chrome feels *dramatically* faster to me than FF3 at rendering pages. Like not even close, faster.

brent's post on poor EC2 disk IO performance http://is.gd/fVVE

"Running SQL Server live in EC2 costs something like $1k/mo." This is why we buy our own servers, folks. FYI. Cloud != cheap.

oh you gotta be kidding me. the 2nd CPU on this Lenovo server requires another VRM "module". What a crock.

europeans always get the cool racy condom ads that us Americans never see http://tinyurl.com/7b6vd4

you haven't truly lived until you've plugged 24 GB of memory into a server. I got chills. And this will be *peanuts* in 3 years.

your input welcome -- looking for naming suggestions for new IT-centric Stack Overflow sister site http://is.gd/fUVF

this "twicksize" thing is a new low, even by internet standards. Seriously. Go crawl into whatever hole you came out of.

"Oops... a server error occurred and your email was not sent. (#793)" Oh yes, number 793. THAT HELPS. http://is.gd/fURL

man, hosted GMail has been *really* annoying lately with intermittent errors. Aggravating how vanilla GMail is so much more reliable.

This is where the Apple biz model (relying on hardware dongles) always ends up: Apple lawyers suing somebody http://is.gd/fTph

Another Wednesday, another day without telekinetic abilities. Sigh.

from chat: "F**k you, Trident layout engine."

"the programming version of the guys who clean up bloody crime scenes" there are other kinds of programming?

@joshstodola was that before or after you ran over your phone with the car to prove a point? :)

I just discovered this new euphemism for sex: "make the bangy-bangy." Please disseminate. Also: you're welcome.

the last time I was in a hospital this long was left4dead. GOOD THING I BROUGHT ME SHOTGUN!!

just got a tour of the new human processing plant

yay! @superdalgas is back on the stackoverflow.com team for the next month. @jonskeet , he's working on your (latest) request :)

the geeky zingers in http://tinyurl.com/7ctaa4 are gold (see "...be geekier than thou")

phew. the "nuke my sore throat with gargled salt water" treatment seemed to work, so I didn't sound like a frog on today's podcast.

I think this is also why artists learn to hate their most popular songs.

Dear interwebs: henceforth I shall conduct all communications solely via the transmitted facsimile machine. Kind regards, yours very truly

oh yes, please to be sending me emails on Monty Hall problem. PLEASE TO BE SENDING!@!!!@1

IT'S PASTAMANIA, BROTHER - http://is.gd/fKu6

Multiplayer Game Designer Maxim #4: "If you give players tools, there will be penises."

fex, this leaderboard approach has been suggested to us; look familiar @jonskeet ? http://answers.yahoo.com/rank_total

Yahoo Answers is so wrong on so many levels, but I have to tell you: we looked closely at it when designing stackoverflow.

Yahoo Answers: "What piques your interest when you meet a girl?" http://is.gd/fGUO

They Call Me Bruce http://tinyurl.com/59rtow

A Conversation With Alan Kay. I would *swear* he's describing PHP at one point. http://tinyurl.com/7eobwg

there's no love in the 'hood for Jr. Pac-Man. Ok, maybe because it sucked. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jr._Pac-Man

be my strfriend! http://is.gd/fFtt good luck auto-hyperlinking those URLs. more like strENEMY, amirite?

why do I hate meta-questions so much?

oh yes, the world is awash in bridge building simulators. but where are the more realistic bridge *burning* simulators?

THE ONLY LIMIT IS YOURSELF http://www.zombo.com/

are there any IIS7 "tweaks" that make sense on an 8-proc box? not seeing anything that wouldn't potentially cause harm right now.