April 2010
8 posts
World Expo 2010 advert music plagerised from... →
Shameful, isn’t it? And with a population of 1.3 billion, I’m sure there has to be someone who can come up with something original
Close Encounters of the Steve Kind
Steve had managed to get Don Knuth, the legendary Stanford professor of computer science, to give a lunchtime lecture to the Mac team. Knuth is the author of at least a dozen books, including the massive and somewhat impenetrable trilogy “The Art of Computer Programming.” (For an amusing look at Knuth’s heady self image, and his $2.56 reward program,...
carocat:
Here’s Mark Todd, Labour MP for South Derbyshire, explaining why you should have your Internet connection cut off without even a written notice:
Is my hon. Friend sure that a postal delivery will suffice? Many people may have chosen to form a contract with an ISP at some stage before moving, and may not have seen any particular reason to notify the ISP of a change of address.
Yes, the...
Carlos Vela dumped from Barcelona game after... →
Vela’s agent Eduardo Hernandez said: “Carlos did not find his passport. He didn’t mislead the club, he just didn’t know where the document was.”
I haven’t heard that excuse before
Brown says economy like Wayne Rooney →
“Like Rooney’s coaches, Brown said, policymakers should not force the economy to jump off the treatment table as if nothing had happened.”
“Get up you stupid little boy. You’ve been shite, son, in your daft pink...”
– Richard Keys slagging off Arsenal’s Theo Walcott when he thought his mic was off (Arsenal vs Barcelona)
“If you need to “originally” write your code in Swahili, while...”
– Response to new iPhone developer terms