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The regular panel of judges used to select the monthly Caffeinated Codey winners are all far too hung over to competently decide the overall winners for the year, so I've decided to let the nominees fight it out pollDaddy style and then actually award the survivors real prizes for a change. Rules I have selected 4 categories with 5 nominees per category. All the nominees were either previous Caffeinated Codey winners or else featured in one of my review posts this year. For now, all of the categories...
It's time for the next installment of the monthly Caffeinated Codey awards, where the link love flows for my favorite posts from the month. For Most Obsessive Blog Comment Recovery Operation...Eric Sink for his post Be My Support Group. After losing a lengthy blog comment due to a random Firefox error, Eric describes his multi-hour effort to recover the data using a packet sniffer and some url-decoding. Eric has long since joined the dark side of the force (business and marketing), so can you imagine...
Ok, maybe not in a bar...but I would definitely listen to DotNetRocks here and there. In fact, I've listened to most of the 300 episodes of this popular tech podcast over the last few years. I don't burn through quite as many shows now that my commute time has been dramatically reduced, but I still listen while driving, running, vacuuming, grocery shopping, painting, mowing, and shoveling. I am especially grateful to the show for helping to keep me in the good graces of my spousal unit, since I am...
It's time for the next installment of the monthly Caffeinated Codey awards, where the link love flows for my favorite posts from the month. For Most Likely to Cause My Co-Workers Grief...Jeff Atwood's post Don't Forget to Lock Your Computer where he talks about the wonderful world of goating. Don't get excited, you'll have to go elsewhere for your daily dose of bestiality. However, this post does offer plenty of good ideas on how you can punish your co-workers the next time they leave their computer...
Did you ever wonder what it would be like to watch a stand-up comedy routine filmed in infrared? If you haven't already watched Rory's creepy YouTube Thanksgiving tribute to spiders and pretentious amateur film-makers, then grab yourself a set of ear-phones and get ready for ten minutes of well-edited and quirky hilarity. I particularly liked his spirited impression of spiders and his dire warning against abusing mouth wash towards the end. Warning, if you watch this video, then you'll probably want...
...he'd definitely want in on some of this action. I clipped some quotes from the comment section of a recent post by a popular blogger. See if you can guess the blogger's identity and topic of the post based on the comments below. Commenter: I think you weren't hugged enough as a child. Blogger: I think you lost your virginity to an uncle. Commenter: codeeliterer.com is still open for you to start your own pseudo-intellectual negativity community. Blogger: Oh aren't you the clever little anonymous...
If you're not a regular reader of Rory Blythe's blog, then you may have missed his recent Neopolean Creation Story series of posts. Here are some questions to help you decide if you are ready for the experience: Are you a fan of Monty Python movie, "The Life of Brian"? Have you ever found yourself bemoaning the fact that last three page blog post you read was too short? Have you ever wondered what happens to a blogger when they suddenly find themselves with a lot of free time on their hands? Have...
Dru first introduced me to ted.com the notion of the "Big Think", but I had forgotten about the site until I saw a link to one of the site's presentations referenced in one of Ayende's recent posts. Despite being on a seemingly dull topic (copyright law), this 20 minute presentation by Larry Lessig is riveting due to the presenter's unique content and effective communication style. After watching the presentation I was left with the following thoughts: I need to start making my way through the other...
It's time for the next installment of the monthly Caffeinated Codey awards, where the link love flows for my favorite posts from the month. For Best Software As RoadKill Analalogy...Ben Scheirman on Don't Make Squirrel Burgers. The next time your boss tries to haggle you over the estimate, just pull out Ben's squirrel burger story. If that doesn't work, you may want to just feed your boss a squirrel burger when he's not looking, thereby earning you a several day deadline extension as he recovers...
No, the fact that Rob Conery may or may not be partial to stealing underwear is not the commonality I had in mind . So what is their connection? First a little background for those of you not familiar with either of these characters. For the culturally illiterate among you, the underpants gnomes are characters from a classic South Park episode that satirizes Starbucks, large corporations, and people who assume mom and pop shops are inherently better than giant corporate chains like Starbucks. The...
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