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Number of Comments: 131
Number of Words: 12,160
First Comment: 10 Apr 2003
Final Comment: 22 Feb 2004

Number of Topics Posted: 1
First Topic: 05 May 2003
Latest Topic: 05 May 2003
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22 Feb 2004   dreaming of products   'digital picture frame.' - just bolt an old laptop....   >>  
20 Feb 2004   business ethics and ....   You can look at it 2 ways; either the squeaky whee....   >>  
      Fair enough. I guess we'll be findin' 'n' fixin' ....   >>  
   Don't be funny   For some screenshots used in a manual I once put t....   >>  
13 Feb 2004   Best Windows Program....   Probably this one - http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr....   >>  
10 Feb 2004   Two blank spaces aft....   Now, how does everyone feel about hypens, em dashe....   >>  
06 Feb 2004   Which Bugs to fix?   It's quite simple. Well, first you fix the one ....   >>  
02 Feb 2004   definition of "Kille....   Spreadsheet.   >>  
   Using shame to stop ....   credit card .... PalmReader (Palm's ebook softwar....   >>  
      If you really wanted to shame them, you could have....   >>  
      Forget shame. Use their credit card number as t....   >>  
01 Feb 2004   Cluetrain Manifesto   Bored: Look for it at your unloved books reseller ....   >>  
31 Jan 2004   "Top grades and a tr....   I read an account of a MIT professor who didn't au....   >>  
   Cluetrain Manifesto   That odd, I could have sworn I typed odds.   >>  
      ...and now the dot com bubble has burst, what are ....   >>  
29 Jan 2004   Signs Your Company H....   Me: 'A table is like a file right?' I worked a ....   >>  
26 Jan 2004   About Face 2   Can't comment on About Face v2.0, but the original....   >>  
25 Jan 2004      The Palm Pilot probably owed its success to lack o....   >>  
24 Jan 2004      If Dennis Atkins thought the Amazon reviews were f....   >>  
23 Jan 2004      'About Face' says here's what you should do. Menu....   >>  
      Go back and get his other book - 'The inmates are ....   >>  
19 Jan 2004   Chris Crawford Game ....   Gareth McCaughan: ...say, an 8-bit microcontroller....   >>  
   Daisy-chaining USBs   Those printer/scanner 300-in-1 + steak knives comb....   >>  
16 Jan 2004   20-minute skill sess....   T.J: I'll see your puny Win-M and crush it with th....   >>  
07 Jan 2004   Licensing Software t....   Dave: We've used the hard drive serial number for....   >>  
22 Dec 2003   Programming bottom-u....   An analogy is building a car. Top-down - here's....   >>  
21 Dec 2003   Voice Recognition - ....   That's all right, I just thought I'd make a crap j....   >>  
19 Dec 2003   Programmers creating....   Anders: So, don't let programmers design the inter....   >>  
   The most annoying us....   So long as you do oi oi oi as well.   >>  
   Voice Recognition - ....   I've always blamed Star Trek for promoting voice r....   >>  
      Jilian: You often encounter lousy voice user inter....   >>  
18 Dec 2003      Julian: I build speech applications for a living, ....   >>  
      It tend to agree with most of what people have sai....   >>  
17 Dec 2003      i like i: do you have a link for that army system?....   >>  
      Voice recognition generally sucks. You'll get you....   >>  
   Allowing users to cr....   Ah searching for 'phone numbers, that's a little d....   >>  
16 Dec 2003   Why programmers shou....   Nobody is really suggesting programmers man the ph....   >>  
      Myron: We also have the same approach for our mark....   >>  
   Allowing users to cr....   I've never found the need to restrict data entry i....   >>  
      John Ridout: There is a standard for everything. ....   >>  
   Crystal Reports   Zaldy, what database back-end do you use?  (p....   >>  
   Failed entrepreneur ....   What, a woman wearing a picture of Jesus lie? ....   >>  
15 Dec 2003   Caution on Bayesian ....   You'll notice the spammers are trying to poison or....   >>  
   Allowing users to cr....   Just an aside, let the user enter whatever-the-hel....   >>  
   Opportunities Revisi....   Please provide link to superior product (we all wa....   >>  
   Crystal Reports   I've disliked Crystal reports for a long time, sta....   >>  
   Failed entrepreneur ....   She doesn't send out 'bigger penis' emails because....   >>  
13 Dec 2003   Programmers' Opinion....   mph: You can tell excel to make graphs and then sa....   >>  
   Software will eat it....   Good to see there are still some <BLINK>Nets....   >>  
12 Dec 2003   What does it mean?   It means 'We got 100 resumes. We only look at the....   >>  
10 Dec 2003   useit.com   Good one John. A bit of light humour to brighten ....   >>  
07 Dec 2003   The real enemy of pr....   > Stephen, you're talking out of your ass. That....   >>  
03 Dec 2003   Usability vs. FUncti....   Odd logic. Don't come work for me. The functio....   >>  
   Workaround to Bayesi....   The filters eventually eliminate b;u;y; vi!ag.r.a ....   >>  
   All the screws lined....   Race cars often have the gauges twisted so they al....   >>  
   Intrinsic fatal erro....   The calculator is a good example of the needs of d....   >>  
02 Dec 2003   Any Programmers Agre....   Dunno about the 'hiring mates' stategy. Something....   >>  
   Stupid specific inte....   pinhead, yes 27, 28 & 29 may all be grounds, and b....   >>  
01 Dec 2003      Since several other pins are ground as well, you c....   >>  
26 Nov 2003   The bookshelf   I'll second 'Code Complete', 'Programming Pearls' ....   >>  
   Stupid Users   Bingo - magic buttons. More precisely, design y....   >>  
25 Nov 2003   When Good Metaphors ....   Tables. Yeah, you're right. People like tables. ....   >>  
24 Nov 2003      I wonder how many people are happy with WordPad. ....   >>  
      Alice - take note. n/a - Hmm. I use Word for mo....   >>  
   Useability:: Backwar....   You know Alice, the place for 15-year old, basemen....   >>  
   Stupid Users   Alice: If, on the other hand, you're UI starts wi....   >>  
23 Nov 2003      This comes up a lot. The correct answer is - St....   >>  
   GUI design (Linux)   I have developed applications with different inter....   >>  
   Obscure acronyms   Gee, nobody mentioned TWAIN - Technology Without A....   >>  
19 Nov 2003   What's your document....   How about - 'Keep it short?'   >>  
   A list of domains to....   Bad idea, Evgany. If someone is looking for www....   >>  
17 Nov 2003   wawa   When I worked at attaching whatchamacallits to wid....   >>  
   Software development....   I thought Evgeny was back! Not to be, just anot....   >>  
   'What in "credit sec....   I find 'Mother / Father / Producer / Boss / God / ....   >>  
   Interesting Work   I make clocks. Big ones, little ones, odd ones.....   >>  
16 Nov 2003   cool companies in me....   Melbourne weather is usually described as having a....   >>  
10 Nov 2003   Installer that doesn....   Sam; It sounded like you were looking for somet....   >>  
      While you're at it, find one with a 'just bloody i....   >>  
07 Nov 2003   They call me NERD!!!   Getting a credit card check digit calculation to r....   >>  
03 Nov 2003   I Still Don't "Get" ....   'I didn't mean EDI. EDI is junk.' What's wrong ....   >>  
   SW Mgmt Part 2 - Des....   Ya know, when I saw the title, I thought the topic....   >>  
31 Oct 2003   Which way is "forwar....   You forgot... _ Person drunk - Short person l....   >>  
   Computer aided patte....   Forget the 'dot matrix' idea, and the plotter as w....   >>  
      MarkTaw, if you think about it, you've just invent....   >>  
      Since it's been about 1988 since I've seen them, i....   >>  
      Every one who says take a plotter and put a knife ....   >>  
30 Oct 2003      You cut shapes out of paper using a 'cookie cutter....   >>  
   Is Electronics &....   Almost forgot, Wouter, the guy who wrote JAL, show....   >>  
      mackinac, I'm not dismissing analog, just pointing....   >>  
29 Oct 2003      The PicAxe chips are good fun too. These days e....   >>  
   Programming is no mo....   7 years sounds about right. Most IT stuff lasts....   >>  
24 Oct 2003   Here comes the monoc....   ...and if it was 1980, you'd be complaining about ....   >>  
   How can people say M....   Adding to Patient PC Users comments, double-click ....   >>  
      Well, it's says 'User Friendly' on the box, doesn'....   >>  
   Where to find IT con....   Just ensure you can fire them quickly with little ....   >>  
   Excel as an applicat....   Ah Stephen, why so bitter? I used to have the s....   >>  
20 Oct 2003      Excel is not for everyone or everything, but it is....   >>  
19 Oct 2003   What coders can lear....   Noname; Your comments are perfectly valid, and ....   >>  
      Echidna: > Australia has 240 V AC in domestic appl....   >>  
18 Oct 2003      Just saw Bored's comments - Plumbing is a filthy, ....   >>  
      Over-zealous licencing is always bad news. You ....   >>  
      Said 'I'... Everyone has the ability to own and u....   >>  
   Excel as an applicat....   I develop Excel applications for a living, from si....   >>  
06 Oct 2003   Where do all the cra....   Sturgeon's Law was originally '90% of everything i....   >>  
03 Oct 2003   should stupid people....   I was waiting for the old 'you only use 10% of you....   >>  
02 Oct 2003   What's Happened to J....   Heh, nice one Philo. Hmm. I guess IT workers....   >>  
      Dave, So show us YOUR resume, one page, bullet ....   >>  
26 Sep 2003   Very long term stora....   Ask the Long Now Foundation ( www.longnow.com ) ! ....   >>  
13 Aug 2003   should I begin the p....   If she's been there for 14 months, and you've give....   >>  
10 Aug 2003   What *is* that icon ....   Actually, .GIF does support more than 256 colours.....   >>  
   Is EDI still a hot t....   EDI spec annoying? When you're trading stocks o....   >>  
23 Jul 2003   sniffing a program's....   There are quite a few packet sniffer tools around.....   >>  
16 Jul 2003   Scripting Languages?   Tcl might be worth a look. It has regular expressi....   >>  
15 Jul 2003   ASP and encryption   Peter Gutmann's cryptlib is a very high quality cr....   >>  
10 Jul 2003   Picking a DIFFERENT ....   Intercal. http://catb.org/~esr/intercal/    >>  
02 Jul 2003   Solution for spammin....   I've found the single most effective filter for sp....   >>  
01 Jul 2003   What color is the sk....   Tom, I believe the opposite of 'rejoicing' is 'wai....   >>  
28 May 2003   Computer ID   I believe that Windows machines have an id which i....   >>  
24 May 2003   Amazed at uninformed....   Don't confuse 'knowing about' and 'knowing'. I ....   >>  
23 May 2003   Evil and truly evil   Regarding centralised error handling, my point is ....   >>  
      Bugs in A = B / C, if anyone is still here! Fai....   >>  
      Good point, your enviroment does play a major part....   >>  
22 May 2003      As odd as it may seem, my current project is progr....   >>  
      Unexpected errors. 'Error 552323552. Vogon con....   >>  
      (Grr, inconsistent UI... I curse you, TAB key :-) ....   >>  
21 May 2003      The GOTO is easily removed by using a status flag.....   >>  
06 May 2003   Unique file ids for ....   Thanks for the replies. Philip, I agree that hashi....   >>  
      Thanks for the replies so far. Actually, I imagine....   >>  
      Eric I'm pottering around with an NT program to....   >>  
05 May 2003   Unique file ids for Windows   >>  
05 May 2003   Interesting Tangent:....   For pity's sake, NO!!!! It's bad enough that the N....   >>  
10 Apr 2003   Moore's Law is comin....   I don't know if Moore's Law is coming to an end, b....   >>  



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