Posts by pete

Asus Eee PC 900 flips one at MacBook Air with multi-touch input

regression?

"It also adds two-finger scrolling."

Erm... the multitouch macs don't have this? It's been working on my (old) MBP since time immemorial, can't believe they'd remove something so useful...

Why Borland trashed its spreadsheet

mmmm

A colleague attempting to track down a particularly horrible bug sprinkled our VB6 application with logging statements. When a sysadmin at the datacentre asked why there were over 12000 and rising "FUCK ME - HOW DID WE GET HERE?" messages in the system event log I had to pass him over to my surprised friend...

Classic e-mail from our project manager followed -

Subject: To those considering profanity in log messages

Don't even f---ing think about it.