-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Patel
Posted At: Friday, July 19, 2002 10:08 AM
Posted To: SOC Interns
Conversation: Props to the PM at BillGs house
Subject: I hugged the big cheese..
As for my bragging rights, I did as I claim below:
First and foremost, I asked BillG "...if he could be any kind of cheese, what kind of cheese would he be?"
His immediate response was, "Big cheese, , I don't know the the different kind of cheese, by name, "
To this quite humorous response, I replied by asking him if I could hug the big cheese?
He was quite shocked at this request (he did have a newly opened Fresca in his hand), he looked at me silly.
In my mind he was thinking, "OK! Who the heck is this weirdo! What's he doing at my mansion?"
Well, he was a good sport anyway, and offered his right hand for a
handshake....The rest my friends, is history.
So I pose this questions to the interns: how *MANY* of you have hugged the big cheese?
Ah ha! Long live the big cheese!
Jay Patel
Office Foundations - STE Intern
Loc: ??/???? Tel: (???) ???-????.
I'm sorry, I really can't resist: are all MS employees built like Windows 98? Or does Bill Gates really 0wn you? </snigger>
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See for yourself. If you can read anything past the ugly blue-black-and-white font, you're a braver man than I.
Google news stories seem more interesting as well. MSNBC basically has a lot of US-related tabloid articles, while Google has some real news. An example:
World news according to MSNBC:
U.S. hands over four French suspects at Guantanamo
Prosecutors dissect Berkeley fishing story (about a murder in S.F. - how is this world news??)
Jenkins asks to see US lawyer
In contrast, Google has:
French Guantanamo detainees back home
Sudan Says US Using Darfur to Topple Government
Freed Egyptian Says Treated Well by Iraqi Captors
Also, Google allows you to go to countryspecificnewsfeeds. I'm sorry, but MSN is going to have to do much better than this to steal my clicks. And before you argue that it's still beta, Google News had
much better functionality than this before it first appeared on the Google front page.
If MyDoom uses certain search strings, you just dump all such searches? Worse case, just dump any search for anything which looks like an e-mail account?
I think the idea is that once it's out, it's out - in its present, incomplete form. Which must be really sad for the band.
On the other hand, bands like the Beatles used to *thrive* on bootlegs - session tapes would get stolen and circulated, and peoeple would STILL pay to see how the final copy came out.
by Microsoft? What, you sayin' it AIN'T the blue icon on my desktop??
Seriously, you shouldn't confuse the issue further (like Sun hasn't tried hard enough). The Internet is the Internet (and AG helped fund it). The WWW is the WWW (and TBL invented it). And IE is junk:) (and will be, forever and ever, amen).
My homepage is written completely in vim (with sometimes a little help from php to do stuff like headers, etc.) Efficient, no. Fun, yes. Works, oh yeah, absolutely and like a charm on anything from lynx to firefox (and maybe even that other browser, the one with all the bugs? Oh yeah, Windows Update...)
By 1996, every school kid had his own webpage. Sure, very few - if any - of them changed the world, but back then, ALL webpages looked like they'd been written in notepad (ah, the days of my pre-unix youth!), but that was cool, because you could learn the tricks of the masters just by clicking View Source. Before long, it'd built up into such remarkable inventions as flash advertisements and the Bonzai Buddy, but under the surface, the WWW can still be written in the simplest of simple editors.
It should also be pointed out that the idea of using tags is what gave rise to XML:D. Yay, TBL!
So next time u are in UK and you see someone forgetting to lock his door or forgetting his bag and you walk in, snatch his stuff, print about his leaving his door open in the local newspaper, and THEN offer to return it to him, beware before you go and tell him... U could be a possible housebreaker or a purse snatcher.
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Wow. My very first first post. *big grin* And look at the time!
can Unix ever be *nix?
...
Seriously, for all practical purposes, GNU + Linux is setting the trend now. Ask IBM, Novell, SCO
Ditto, me. Sniff.
Don't you mean Yahoo and MSN?
I really loved last year's UserFriendly for SysAd day. I actually printed two copies and gave it to my two SysAds (love you guys!)
Explanation: http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/07/05/outbac k.mystery.ap/
Dude, you *NEVER* click on a link without looking at the URL. Evil things can happen.
... all I can say is "HA HA HA HA HA!"
See for your self. If you can read anything past the ugly blue-black-and-white font, you're a braver man than I.
Google news stories seem more interesting as well. MSNBC basically has a lot of US-related tabloid articles, while Google has some real news. An example:
World news according to MSNBC:
In contrast, Google has:
Also, Google allows you to go to country specific news feeds. I'm sorry, but MSN is going to have to do much better than this to steal my clicks. And before you argue that it's still beta, Google News had much better functionality than this before it first appeared on the Google front page.
Yeah, and icebergs couldn't sink the Titanic either.
If MyDoom uses certain search strings, you just dump all such searches? Worse case, just dump any search for anything which looks like an e-mail account?
Most of the code at the right comes from this image: http://www.aljex.com/fp/vim/unix.gif
I think the idea is that once it's out, it's out - in its present, incomplete form. Which must be really sad for the band.
On the other hand, bands like the Beatles used to *thrive* on bootlegs - session tapes would get stolen and circulated, and peoeple would STILL pay to see how the final copy came out.
Presumably, the "real fans" will then buy it on iTunes rather than getting it from their favourite P2P program.
What do you mean by 'developing consciousness'? Not trying to troll here, just curious.
Google can do it by themselves already.
by Microsoft? What, you sayin' it AIN'T the blue icon on my desktop??
:) (and will be, forever and ever, amen).
Seriously, you shouldn't confuse the issue further (like Sun hasn't tried hard enough). The Internet is the Internet (and AG helped fund it). The WWW is the WWW (and TBL invented it). And IE is junk
My homepage is written completely in vim (with sometimes a little help from php to do stuff like headers, etc.) Efficient, no. Fun, yes. Works, oh yeah, absolutely and like a charm on anything from lynx to firefox (and maybe even that other browser, the one with all the bugs? Oh yeah, Windows Update ...)
:D. Yay, TBL!
By 1996, every school kid had his own webpage. Sure, very few - if any - of them changed the world, but back then, ALL webpages looked like they'd been written in notepad (ah, the days of my pre-unix youth!), but that was cool, because you could learn the tricks of the masters just by clicking View Source. Before long, it'd built up into such remarkable inventions as flash advertisements and the Bonzai Buddy, but under the surface, the WWW can still be written in the simplest of simple editors.
It should also be pointed out that the idea of using tags is what gave rise to XML
Me, I'd blame the tooth fairy ... :D
:D :D
... in Japan! *narf*)
Then again, it might also be Sir Darl of Blah
(Please don't mod me "-1 Stupid". Somebody had to say it. I hear this sort of insider-knowledge joke is funny
(I'm going to regret not posting this anonymously, aren't I?)
Your comment should read:
So next time u are in UK and you see someone forgetting to lock his door or forgetting his bag and you walk in, snatch his stuff, print about his leaving his door open in the local newspaper, and THEN offer to return it to him, beware before you go and tell him ... U could be a possible housebreaker or a purse snatcher.
Which sounds about right to me.
The CIA has said [blogspot.com] ...
The CIA posts press releases to blogs now? Wow ... authorative, man.
Dear Friendly Microsoft User,
No, no. Longhorn *will* be released by Christmas. It's only Longhorn 2008 which will have an uptime in double digits. Seconds, I mean.
Please continue to use Microsoft (tm), because we pwns joo.
Cheers,
B. Gates
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