Archive for September, 2006

RMS Irony

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For some reason I was googling Richard Stallman today and came accross a something that he wrote concerning Harry Potter. What intrigued me was not the content of the article, but the copyright at the bottom: copyright (c) 2005 Richard Stallman Verbatim copying and redistribution of this entire page are permitted provided this notice is [...]

Joel lost an intern

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It seems like my blog posts are always popular when I talk about Joel Spolsky. On the topic of Joel, I recently read one of his blog posts where he mentions that he lost an intern to Microsoft: Last year we set the application deadline for internships to February 1st, which was fine, and the [...]

Advertisements on Sourceforge

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So am I the only one that has noticed the volume of advertisements on sourceforge? Now this image shows the areas of the page that are advertising:

Review: Windows Live Writer

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As I mentioned in my last post, I’m trying Windows Live Writer as a blogging tool. Despite having a really long name that apparently needs to be prefixed with “Windows Live,” Writer is actually a very convenient tool for blogging. This will be a short review covering the positive and negative aspects of the tool.