Did you know there's an LJ search engine out there? And it's not half bad?

http://www.ljseek.com/

Can I ask a strange and potentially dorky series of software questions? Thx.

Why is the LJ comment wizard a thick client application for Windows? Why isn't it a web-based application? Why is the install nearly 600k? Why is there an installer at all? What necessitated several versions to get up to 1.6? Isn't this like the most straight- ( Read more... )

Groupthink. You collaborate and add a single word to a sentence to construct what sometimes turns out to be hillarity (other times, turns out to be extremely homophobic or sexist rubbish.) Some of my favs I've seen:

• Three babies voted on monday to legalize alcohol but, it failed.
• Dolphins are ticklish and giggle like the dickens.
• Serenade lemonade ( Read more... )

God, MIT is so cool. Can I have three plz?

There are certain moments that make me breathe a sigh of relief I don't work at Microsoft anymore.

I just e-mailed krull at work that had the word "fucking" in it. The context being "what a fucking disappointment." I immediately got an e-mail bounce from the MSFT servers with the following message.<**********@microsoft.com ( Read more... )

technology makes me giggle.

at&t labs lets me make computers say funny things!

Just got a new T-Mobile Sidekick II. So good. Any assemblance of a social life I once had is now gone. This is my only friend. People are nice, but they can't let me browse the web, chat on Yahoo and AOL, and play fun games while on the bus. kthxbye.


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For those of you in love with Firefox ( Read more... )

Maybe it's just me, but I think Microsoft will buy anything. Groove was okay, not great. The whole software felt like it was made for the sole purpose of a buyout. Just like Notes. Call me old-fashioned, but I believe software should be made for the benefit of the consumer. Ah well. I guess Ray Ozzie needed some more money. And Microsoft ( Read more... )