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"To Truly Understand What It Is to Be an American You Must Eat Wonder Bread"

Posted Friday, June 27, 2008 8:04 PM by johnmont
Earlier this week, two engineers from Microsoft in Germany (Sebastien Peray and Marcel Tilly) joined the Popfly team to work on adding a feature to Popfly. They invented a clever way to substitute one Popfly block for another a few months ago and were Read More...
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Coding Best Practice

Posted Friday, July 06, 2007 9:32 AM by johnmont
Courtesy Smalltalk Tidbits : Technorati Tags: humor , coding Read More...
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Bold Predictions

Posted Thursday, December 14, 2006 9:03 AM by johnmont
Peter O'Kelly boldly predicts there will be fewer bold predictions from analysts in the future. This reminded me of a BYTE article I was working on a decade ago. It was an update on Windows NT, I think. In any event, I re-read the original BYTE article Read More...
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Programmers and Coke: What Happens if You Drink a Coke Right Now

Posted Wednesday, December 13, 2006 12:36 PM by johnmont
I stopped drinking Coke a long time ago, preferring to abuse my system with high levels of coffee instead, but this analysis of what happens when you drink a Coke is fasincating. Read More...
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The New Coffee, One Month Later

Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 9:32 AM by johnmont
I've now spent over a month dabbling in the new office coffee, produced by the local Starbucks machines. I have to say, it works -- it's OK stuff. I still prefer the brew that comes out of my own coffee pot, but relative to the old stuff, this is pretty Read More...
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(In)Side Business Opportunity: Modding Microsoftie's Offices?

Posted Thursday, September 21, 2006 3:37 PM by johnmont
I've joked about this for a while, but I'm starting to believe there is a business opportunity making office modifications to Microsoft employees -- particularly modifications that are within the Real Estate and Facilities guidelines. For example, if Read More...
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Dumb Idea Nipped in the Bud: Film at 11

Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2006 6:04 AM by johnmont
Have you ever sat down and thought up some brilliant thing, then realized, “Why bother?” Today during an interview, a candidate related a question he was asked about how he’d implement a particular feature. To me, the feature (it’s not important what Read More...
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More Words

Posted Wednesday, April 12, 2006 9:23 AM by johnmont
Why don't comb, tomb, and bomb rhyme? Why do they, say, and weigh rhyme? Why is rhyme not spelled "rime" as it was in the past? Become a member of the Simplified Spelling Society and fight these injustices (even if their site is running on PHP instead Read More...
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So About This Ed Bott Character...

Posted Thursday, April 06, 2006 2:49 PM by johnmont
So Ed Bott was wondering why so many Microsoft people start their sentences with the word "so." "So" is a weird word. It tries to mean "apparently" and "greatly" and "thus" all at once. I actually had someone tell me that starting sentences with that Read More...
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Words

Posted Wednesday, April 05, 2006 9:44 PM by johnmont
Dare Obasanjo earlier posted on some of the words Microsoft has killed. These include: Passion, innovation, synergy, and agility. From what I’ve seen, these are words the industry, not just Microsoft, has collectively placed onto a pyre and watched burn Read More...
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And These Are the People We're to Trust

Posted Wednesday, April 05, 2006 5:33 PM by johnmont
Homeland Security aide suspended after sex sting . Read More...
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