Category: geekery

If the people who play EverQuest have too much time on their hands, what does that say about the people who spend months researching them?

I build killer apps. No, really. Unfortunately, I don’t mean WinAmp, AIM or Windows. I build apps that kill webservers. It’s what I’m good at. If you have a machine, I can probably bring it to its knees with nifty in memory caching and data manipulation. I can cripple your web farm with intense bombardment […]

I’m thinking about writing a book. I have a couple ideas, the obvious being a book on creating three-tiered applications with AOLserver. I know I’m not the perfect candidate, but I don’t see anyone else writing anything about AOLserver that’s done for the general public. My other idea is a manual of style for large-scale […]

I just installed Office X on my Mac and ‘lo and behold, I now have my favorite font of all time, Tahoma! That means that our intranet looks peachy in IE 5.1 now. Yes! Ahhhh, geeks and our simple pleasures.

Beware geeks with free time.

Today was supposed to be a busy mess of QA, Launch and otherworldly stress. Instead, 30 minutes after the stress started, it was all called off because someone, somewhere, with letters after their name decided this was a bad idea and let’s not do it. So, all the stress and work I had geared up […]

The Geekery is alive!! Check it out and let me know what you think.

Is it a bad thing if I’m a software engineer (that’s my title anyway) and I can’t stand C? I’m working through the Tome of the language (K&R), and jeez, it’s just ugly. In order to achieve Geek First Class, do you have to know C?

I am The Norm. The Norm is me. I consider it a point of pride that I keep my inbox empty at all times and deal with mail as it comes in. I don’t know why everyone can’t do that. I walk by my friends’ desks and they have an unconquerable mountain of mail. How […]

You can tell everything you want to know about him from the way walks: short clipped fast steps, his heels pounding the floor with a slap. He wears the corporate casual wardrobe like a uniform. His khaki Dockers pressed to a crease in the front, his oxford shirts in several solid muted colors, afraid to […]