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I was installing MRTG the other day and
this was at the end of the install script (his email address has been removed to keep
people from spamming him):

config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: WARNING:  Makefile.in seems to ignore the –datarootdir setting
config.status: creating config.h
ordering CD from http://tobi.oetiker.ch/wish ….
just kidding

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Config is DONE!

Type ‘make’ to compile the software

       … that wishlist
mentioned above does really exist. So if
you feel like showing your appreciation for MRTG, this is the
place to go. I just love CDs and DVDs

                           
– Tobi Oetiker <>
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The other day I was stuck trying to figure something out in Excel (sadly, I forget
what).  I hit the F1 key which is usually the equivalent of getting Goose to
punch out for you.  This is the marvelously helpful window that popped up:

Remember how annoying he was?  Well, now you can share the wealth with your friends:

http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/entertainment/clippy/

You know those little squiggly words people make you type in to be sure you’re not
a robot?  They’re called captchas.

Top 10 worst captchas:

http://www.johnmwillis.com/other/top-10-worst-captchas/

http://blog.notdot.net/2007/6/LOLCodenet-Now-your-LOLCats-can-use-the-CLR

This is an excerpt from an interview (http://www.goodexperience.com/archives/1002.html) with
a Google employee that I found very amusing:

There’s this one user, a Google zealot – we don’t know who he is – who occasionally
sends an e-mail to our “comments” address. Every time he writes, the e-mail contains
only a two-digit number. It took us awhile to figure out what he was doing. Turns
out he’s counting the number of words on the home page. When the number goes up, like
up to 52, it gets him irritated, and he e-mails us the new word count. As crazy as
it sounds, his e-mails are helpful, because it has put an interesting discipline on
the UI team, so as not to introduce too many links. It’s like a scale that tells you
that you’ve gained two pounds.

Saw this JavaScript code a while back:

<% if strButtonAction = “” then %>
var strLinkURL = “<%=strReturnURL%>?buttonAction=<%=strButtonAction%>”;
formPostData.action = strLinkURL;
<% end if %>

I have always believed that computers don’t make mistakes…  they just do what
somebody told them to.