Category: Geek

Deep in the heart of cafe coolness

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date August 25, 2003
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As I type this, I’m sitting at a table at the Lettieri Cafe at the corner of Queen and Spadina, where someone has been cool enough to leave an open WiFi connection.

I’m doing some PHP coding for a client. A couple of passers-by stopped to say hello. “Accordion Guy, I didn’t know you were a computer dude, I thought you were a full-time musician!” said one of them. Robbie’s just started his shift at the 24-hour hot dog stand across the street and is waving to me. I’m enjoying an excellent large moccacino and watching the streetcars and club kids go by.

I should do this more often while the weather’s still good.

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SCO silliness

If you’re a geek who’s been following the silliness about SCO’s claims about Linux, you’ll love We Love the SCO Information Minister.

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The boss’ cubicle: a panorama

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date August 23, 2003
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Boss Ross let me take a panorama of his cubicle while I was waiting for him to finish an online chat with a client.

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A sign that either extreme programming has either gone mainstream or "jumped the shark"

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date August 22, 2003
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Wired magazine’s September 2003 issue has an article on Extreme Programming called The New X-Men.

A photo from the Extreme Programming story in Wired. Luckily for these guys, this sort of programming is legal in Canada now.

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They’re trying to make Astroboy!

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date August 21, 2003
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From the Japan Times:

Japanese researchers in robot technology are advocating a grand project, under which the government would spend 50 billion yen a year over three decades to develop a humanoid robot with the mental, physical and emotional capacity of a 5-year-old human.

The researchers believe the Atom Project, inspired by the popular robot animation series “Tetsuwan Atom” [known here in North America as Astroboy — Joey] by the late cartoonist Osamu Tezuka, would help promote scientific and technological advances in Japan, just like the U.S. Apollo Project, which not only succeeded in landing men on the moon but contributed to a broad range of technological breakthroughs.

I wonder if this robot will have machine guns in his butt, just like Astroboy did.

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ASP.NET programmers — what’s your programming language of choice?

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date August 21, 2003
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Or, more accurately, what’s the programming language mandated by your company: Visual Basic .NET or C#? And what’s the size of your company (small — 1 to 10 / medium — 11 to 100 / large — 101 or more)?

Let me know in the comments.

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Echospam

For the past couple of days, I’ve been getting echospam. Some spammer or spammers have been forging my email address as the return address for their spamming, and the bounce messages are ending up in my mailbox. And the worst thing is, if I were to find this spammer and kill him, it would be me that went to jail. Where’s the justice?

I notice that Tim Bray’s getting echospammed too.