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I get spam :)

I just received this spam message the other day: From: Microsoft [mailto:customerservice@microsoft.com] Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 11:13 PM To: Larry Osterman Subject: Security Update for OS Microsoft Windows Dear Microsoft Customer, Please notice Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 14, 2008 9:13 AM by LarryOsterman | 18 Comments

Oh Wow, Dr. Horrible is AWESOME!

Someone just pointed me to http://www.drhorrible.com , which is Joss Whedon’s newest epic. The first two acts are up on the web (the final act will go up on Saturday). They are spectacularly cool, especially to a musical nut.  I knew that Neil Patrick Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 17, 2008 11:34 AM by LarryOsterman | 4 Comments

Every Domain Name tells a story, I wonder what this one's was.

And I'd love to know the story behind this site: http://www.modestapparelchristianclothinglydiaofpurpledressescustomsewing.com/choosing_your_fabric.htm . I ran across it while shopping online the other day. The root page of the domain ( http://www.modestapparelchristianclothinglydiaofpurpledressescustomsewing.com/index.htm Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 01, 2008 3:17 PM by LarryOsterman | 10 Comments

Got Tetris?

I just wanted to take a quick break from threat modeling to point to a video that Valorie passed on to me that's nothing short of remarkable (from the blog of one of my favorite magazines, Mental Floss ): Advanced Tetris Gameplay : The magic happens about Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2007 8:38 AM by LarryOsterman | 7 Comments

Where did the second parties go?

We were chatting at lunch the other day about 3rd parties building solutions on the audio engine. One of the people in my group asked "Why do we call them 3rd parties?" It's one of those "things that make you go hmm". There's general consensus in the Read More...
Posted Friday, March 30, 2007 11:47 AM by LarryOsterman | 37 Comments

Mother, Can I?

Recently someone posted the attached screen shot on the internal self hosting alias. What's wrong with this English? It's the use of "Can" instead of "May". This happens to be one of my minor pet peeves with common English usage. The difference between Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 9:37 AM by LarryOsterman | 45 Comments

Seen on the TV in "Larry's Lounge"

Just outside my office is a little "lounge" area - it's a sitting area with a couch and a couple of comfy chairs that's used for meetings. It's sort-of become known as "Larry's Lounge" or "The Larry Lounge". In the "Larry Lounge", there's a 42" flat screen Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 03, 2006 3:36 PM by LarryOsterman | 42 Comments

Critical Driver or Cargo Cult Programming?

I've been self hosting Vista on my laptop since sometime in January. Every Monday morning, without fail, I installed the latest build available from the "main" windows branch, and tried it. There have been good builds and bad builds - the first few were Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 14, 2006 2:09 PM by LarryOsterman | 37 Comments

I could get to like this "Internet" thing.

Last Thursday, when Daniel was at his music lesson, I got an email from a friend of ours. We have a vacation home in the San Juan Islands (just north west of Seattle), and he was visiting his place on the island and looked in on our house. He had noticed Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 20, 2006 7:15 PM by LarryOsterman | 18 Comments

My neighbor's Hive.Net video cast

It turns out that my neighbor works in the same building as I do, she's the group product manager for IE (go figure that one). I ran into her the other day, and she pointed me to this video she did for "hive.net". I've got to say that I was really impressed. Read More...
Posted Friday, November 11, 2005 9:37 AM by LarryOsterman | 3 Comments

Cool illusion found on Michael Gartenberg's blog

Michael Gartenberg pointed out this cool illusion. It's a circle of pink dots with a rotating highlight. If you stare at it long enough, the pink highlight turns green, and if you keep on looking at it, the circle of pink dots disappears. Very, very freaky Read More...
Posted Friday, November 04, 2005 11:31 AM by LarryOsterman | 13 Comments

Converting between bases...

The other day there was a thread on Channel9 where "orangie" was complaining about the fact that his programming class required him to learn how to convert between different bases (base 10->2->whatever). In reality, it's actually quite useful to Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 15, 2005 11:44 AM by LarryOsterman | 35 Comments

Hey, I'm an author too!

Joel just sent me an email letting me know that the first edition of " Best Software Writing, I " has now gone live. I'm quite honored to have have had one of my blog posts ( Larry's rules of software engineering #2: Measuring Testers by Test Metrics Read More...
Posted Monday, June 20, 2005 1:32 PM by LarryOsterman | 8 Comments

Concurrency - An aside

Sorry, I've got a massive headache today, and really don't feel up to writing the next item in the concurrency series, I should have something for Thursday (tomorrow's a day off for me :)). Meanwhile, I wrote this up a bit earlier during the series: My Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 22, 2005 10:43 AM by LarryOsterman | 13 Comments

The crazy things they're using computer games for these days.

Valorie pointed me to this article at the Washington Post (Free registration required, sorry :(). Everyone knows about the current crop video games - Doom 3, Halo 2, Half-Life 2, The Sims 2, GTA: Vice City, etc. Even the U.S. Army's gotten on the bandwagon Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 21, 2004 11:26 AM by LarryOsterman | 14 Comments
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