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Holy crap: an honest to goodness Easter egg

Thanks to Macintouch, I just spent a virtual eternity (okay, five minutes, but these days that feels like an eternity) playing Asteroids. The original Asteroids. Tucked away inside Microsoft Office 2004. Word was a while back that Microsoft had put a moratorium on Easter eggs. I wonder how the team slipped this one in. I [...]

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Thought for the day: Platform lock-in, good and bad

A review of a new PowerShell book on Slashdot features a great comment from an anonymous coward who gives the best argument against supporting multiple platforms that I’ve ever read: I hate re-using code because it forces me to solve new problems every day. I’d rather create new value on Mondays only, and then spend [...]

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Links for May 2, 2007

NY Times: No, Really, It Was Tough: 4 People, 80 Martinis. Having tried and failed to articulate the differences among six or seven types of wine, I can only imagine the challenge that this team of tasters faced in their martini-gin review. Palate fatigue, for one. Local blogger Evan points out that only in Boston [...]