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Entries from February 2007

nerd rustler

February 20th, 2007 · No Comments

I was scanning some online jargon/lingo dictionaries for some site marketing purposes, and came across a new term (new to me):
nerd rustler: The person in a corporate personnel department responsible for hiring computer programmers. (found it here on netlingo.com)
Of course there’s the closely related classic, for which I can relate:
nerd herder: A manager [...]

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Tags: management · technology · web development

Programmers can change light bulbs?

February 20th, 2007 · No Comments

If you’ve ever managed engineers, you likely see some truth in this.
Q: How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. It’s a hardware problem.
Can you guess how the systems administrator would tell this joke?

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Tags: humor and jokes · technology

first smile caught on camera

February 16th, 2007 · No Comments

OK, trying not to be one of those new parents that can’t stop gabbing about their kid, but hey, once you have one it is a life changer. But I’ll make it short.
Here’s little Rafa with one of his first smiles caught on camera. and yes I am a wee bit proud:

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Tags: family · photos

Google PageRank achieved

February 12th, 2007 · No Comments

Yes kids, a milestone has been achieved, this very site you are gazing at has a google pagerank of 1 (ok, and only in 1 of god knows how many GOOG datacenters), but hey Rome wasn’t built overnight. You may be thinking, “ha ha ha ha, you sad little man, my grandmothers hair-removal-adventures-blog has a [...]

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Tags: SEO and SEM · web development

Crap Circles

February 6th, 2007 · No Comments

ok, this IS news.

A friend forwarded this to me.  I think i’ll have to consider moving to Australia, their news is way more entertaining than listening to CNN and the whole lot. check it out at smh.com.au.

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Tags: humor and jokes