xkcd is IMO the funniest geek comic strip ever... and courtesy of Tech Drive-in here are some real gems. Just 10 of them per link so won't take long to scan :-).
Anyone who has worked in a project involving writing some software would have come across specifications of some kind - those holy documents written by the project elite that are a pain both to implement as well as to maintain and serve nothing more than as a hurdle to getting to a working product. Often spec documents either derive from another or many such documents build, by way of cross-reference, a connected specification which soon creates a need for another document to describe the relationship between these docs... which, of course, has to be kept up-to-date not only whenever any specification is updated but also when there are relationship updates or when new nodes come up etc. Soon anyone entering the project has to pass through this wall made of the interconnected web of specs only to understand soon enough that the product he/she is working on is quite different from what the specifications are dreaming about. Often times, to the authors the specs are sacrosanct and reality
Until June 26,2007, friday evenings invariably included watching a freshly downloaded episode of death-note ( Official website ). The best subs were most often by kuro-hana , but they stopped after being served a C&D from the copyright owners. I haven't really found a replacement for death note for my weekly dose of intrigue... any suggestions ? please feel free to leave them in comments.
Image courtesy Tech Drive-In Stat agencies have reported that for the first time the market share of Microsoft Internet Explorer may be below 50%. The last time so few people used IE was around 1997-1998 - a time when the web was not yet a household term even in the USA. Read more about the general decline of IE market share here .
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