Try as I might, I can’t work up the courage to put

all these sites were designed with industry standard buzzwords

in my CV. But really that’s what I mean.

I just applied for a job online but they didn’t even ask for my email address, which feels a bit wrong. The job was a ‘web officer’, too. The least they could do is pretend they’ll get in ( Read more... )

In the past I have been very scathing about the new Doctor Who on television, because I think it’s really bad scifi. But that didn’t mean I was unwilling to give Torchwood (a spin-off series which shares a character with DW) the benefit of the doubt. If I had BBC3 I probably would have seen it at the weekend but I had to wait for the analogue debut ( Read more... )

Why is it that we’re expected to believe that the very people who fail to keep track of our luggage when we fly around the world are somehow capable of organising a resilient and dynamic security system? Bear in mind that luggage doesn’t scheme, lie or dissemble and yet it still manages to fool the airlines.

Even more, if there’s any object which ( Read more... )

Geek humour for the day comes to you courtesy of Raganwald and Uncyclopaedia:

• Pop on some Gil-Scott Heron and sing along to The Revolution will Not be on YouTube.
• When you’re finished with that you can get down to some extreme programming as we always imagined it would be - one-handed debugging while pulling off some nifty snowboarding moves. That’ ( Read more... )

You know yo’ve been doing far too much C(++) when you see a menu that says

Choose a burger and a pint* for only £3.99

and all you can think about is “pointer to a pint”.

Two funny things to round off the day:

1. 
   There was a column in the paper about a 104-year old lady who uses the internet from her nursing home. Go old people! She insisted on calling the mouse a rabbit though, which is terminology I think we should all adopt in solidarity.
   
2. 
   The opening paragraph from this paper about knowing the limits of your own ( Read more... )

Seen on LtU, in a discussion about closures in Java:

Also inner classes are the better and more 'java-way' to do closures

I can't see what makes them better, and if 'java-way' means anything then it must be a synonym with 'ugly' or 'verbose' or 'inconvenient'.

Miaow! Still, it's very true.

Java really is one of the ugliest languages around. I' ( Read more... )

If Jesus died and was resurrected why are Christians still waiting for the Second Coming? Surely the next one is the Third Coming?

I’ve never really understood why the US date system works the way it does (month/day/year) but it’s just one of these things. It probably comes from some obscure fact of translation or ‘reform’ undertaken by an American printer or something.

Anyway, it reminds me a bit of the URL schema for http://thedailywtf.com. I know that it’s a bit of a ( Read more... )

OMFG, this is hilarious. The guy deserves some kind of medal for services to maths humour.