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Sounds familiar. He should try to work something out with Odd Todd.

Whoever writes that Odd Todd blog has something wrong with him. Reading that is like staying late without overtime at a job you hate to finish a task you hate for a boss you hate so you can look forward to more jobs you hate the next day.

Sitting around all holiday watching lost - What a loser.

Sounds familiar. He should try to work something out with Odd Todd.

Also this trademark is at least 30 years old.

Trademarks don't expire so long as you use the mark. Being old actaully works in the favor of the trademark owner legally. In the US it looks like Hasbro either owns or once owned the Memory mark in relation to card games.
http://www.oddtodd.com/hasbro2.html
Not sure if Concentration is trademarked.

That was this guy's argument was and he won his fight. Same state even.

Surely with more people sitting at home, unemployed, with nothing to do other than look for a job, and desperate to make their cv stand out more than everyone else in there situation, the amount of speculative work produced may in fact rise?

I'm just going to sit around the apartment, staying drunk, surfing pr0n and feeling sorry for myself all day long while living off the new Obama dole.

Heck, maybe I'll even whip up some cheesy flash cartoons and put them on a website so everyone else can share in my misery.

Either someone is copying Odd Todd or he just sold out.

Network. Email everyone you can (and by can, I mean everyone who won't get mad at you for eamiling them that you need work). Try getting into some networking groups like Friendster and LinkedIn.com.

Get a Blog and start writing in it, and include the fact that your looking for work and your trials and tribulations etc. It worked wonders for Odd Todd and who knows who might read your blog. Of course to advertise you're gonna have to read/post in others blogs. Do so wisely.

Most importantly -- believe that you can make it happen and you will. But the key is you have to make it happen -- otherwise it won't.

I thought Todd was unemployed.

What sound does a firewall make when someone clicks on a goatse link?

"mep"

Gotta love a good misspelling now and then.

... He knows how to live despite having been laid off!

This man is my idol, and anyone who has ever been unemployed should appreciate "staring at the wall for an hour after waking 'early' up at 10:17, drinking a pot of coffay." I donated a few bucks to help his cause, and you should too, after all, he is unemployed :)

oddtodd.com

oddtodd.com

Odd Todd

Enjoy!

Odd Todd has some good suggestions. I especially like Captain Todd's Mac 'n' Cheese surprise. He also has a book entitled "Hard Times, Soft Couch" with some good suggestions to get you through your period of unemployment. It's good. Not necessarily practical, but it'll provide a momentary distraction anyway.

For one, if you statically link your application then anytime there's a security fix or change to the linked library you'll need to recompile the application,

1. Go the Bank and change $1 for 5000000 Indian Rupees
2. Hire 1000 Indian programmers with above currency
3. Tell the programmers to recompile all statically-inked applications with the new libraries
4. Hire unemployed American programmer for $20000 to translate the program from Hindi to English
5. Charge large corporations big $$$ for upgrading all their software
5. Profit!!! (Really)

Odd Tood (the site this is hosted on has some of the funniest Flash animations I've ever seen. Esp. his first one "Laid Off"... but didn't he get busted because he made some damn good money in his "tip jar" and never reported it to the IRS? Anyone have the skinny on this? PS: watch the videos. You'll laugh. www.oddtodd.com.

odd todd is a really funny site. Quite a few of us have felt like this.

Would have been an interesting proposition 10 years ago. BSD is a hydra.

Real April Fools material: oddtodd.com

One hotspot is Flash cartoons. oddtodd.com is an example of someone making a living (if you call that living) from Flash cartoons. There are numerous books on the subject.

Well You could be so desperate as to have to document you unemployment. Now where is my coff-ay.

I am thankful that I have a job. And for those that do not, visit odd todd.

Err right. That might be true in the /. Community, but the reality is that the vast majority of people either really don't care. Outside of Slashot, the real world isn't exactly vindictive against MS. Not everybody's running around being masochistic just for the sake not using MS stuff. "I spent 3 weeks making my Linux box do whatever my Windows box was already doing!" Whatever.

It's a pity, really. I think Opera deserves more attention on /. than Mozilla as an MS browser alternative. Zealousy abounds I guess. I say that because the only ding I can see against Opera is that it's Ad-supported. I'd care except they show cartoons in that banner window. Heh.

• It's Open Source, so it's not just a browser, it's the basis of several different browsers
  
• It's free - without ads (If I want cartoons, I'd rather go someplace like OddTodd where I choose what to watch and when I'm going to watch it)
  
• It's freely distributable so I can give a copy to my friends without worrying about legality
  
• It has better support for web standards
  

Ah, but I'm using Mozilla as we speak, and I enjoy that I can watch flash movies in it.

I'm fairly confident of MS on this one. If Eolas prevents anyone but MS from using plug-ins, the Web will probably shift around the new environment. Pages will still be IEML, but that will now mean they won't include lots of executable content. If Eolas wants to prevent anyone but one browser from using plug-ins, and plans to sell to AOL, AOL will probably cut a deal with MS to license the patent. MS has a lot of money. AOL needs a lot of money. Makes sense.

Don't forget, this patent runs out in 2014, plenty of time for IE to be back to normal by Longhorn... =)

My favorite odd todd line.

And the fact that I seriously considered volunteering, made me feel better
about not..volunteering.

Elf Up

Are people like that fit to run the country because they're entitled to? Absolutely not! People that ignorant should not be allowed to vote, and ever since we removed all restrictions, this country has turned into a cesspool welfare state -- though we're still not as bad as Europe or Canada

Right now you might be looking at your high tax bill, but when your boss decides to downsize you due to "Feng Shui kaizen employment strategy", THEN you'll be panicking looking at your welfare credits and hoping to God that you didn't cash in your unemployment insurance.

"Tom Lord, the author of the revolutionary arch revision control system . . . needs some monetary help."

He should just make a website or something.

Steve

This is why commercial software is *NEVER* completed. Are there any commercial devlopers out there whose XP manager said, "Sure, refactor the code, take as long as you want"?

Code refactoring (aka UnCut&UnPaste) is an often-skipped yet important development stage. Lines of code should go up during development, and then halted and refactored eliminating duplicate code *reducing* the number of lines of code, then at the end do a super refactor.

My last project was feature complete at 1000 lines, after refactoring it became 400 lines, causing the code to become simple enough to spot a way to improve the algorithm from O(n) to O(nlog(n)), although we charge extra monnnai for the nlog(n) system. Luxuries like adding GUI and usability enhancements become much simpler after a big refactor. Without one you always get software bloat

There are probably a few things everyone can agree on, like Flash being worthless at best and extremely annoying most of the time.

The article said "unemployed people are supposed to be actively looking for work, not spending all of their time answering e-mail, drawing cartoons and getting interviewed on television about being unemployed."

Well, what does Todd say on a page behind a like entitled "Gimme a JOB"? "you'd have to really pay me alot to take me off schedule on producing cartoons for this site."

Sounds to me like they have a case.

Cheers,
Philip

This guy was supposed to have been head of business development at a dot com but you'd never know it from looking at his Web site. His sad sack sense of humour may have gotten him some sympathy and attention but I doubt if an employer would hand him responsibility based on what they see at his site.

If he's in business development you'd expect him at least to use the success of the site to promote his skills to a potential employer. There's not even a resumé. He actually has some ads at the bottom of the home page and buried behind a link called Odd Todd Officials, but even when you find them they're so poorly done you're not sure what you're looking at.

From the point of view of getting a job, his site is worse than useless. Let's see how his goofy outlook holds up after another few months of eating potatochips.

Every unemployed tech worker can sympathize with this guy