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Bron seems like a good CEO. He's come up through the ranks at FM, so hopefully he's fully onboard with the workers. I had an account when they first got off the ground, survived th…

I got into IT because I want to be challenged. Asking some generative AI bot about how to write a better hotpatch function or how to automate a terribly-detailed set of steps that …

A lot of this mentality has to do with wanting a throat to choke if something goes south. The bigger the throat, the more the C-Suite rests easy, despite the costs. The old "Nobody…

FF gets crapped on all the time, BUT... it's still the best mainstream browser out there IMHO. I've been using FF since day one, when it was code named Phoenix. As the spiritual su…

Tron Legacy. Such a good film. My kids and I watch it a few times a year. I tried watching the original from 1982 and it just felt so... dated? Perhaps I'm spoiled like most people…

Good old Neal Stephenson books, but I really like Cryptonomicon and Reamde. I read Cryptonomicon in one day it was that good, and years later read it again and got more from it. Ne…

I rather like the look, even now. I also liked T'Pol in Star Trek Enterprise.

What with ads, tracking, and such at an all-time high, and manifest 3 coming for Chrome (and derivatives), and YouTube blocking users that won't view ads, I've done the usual like …

I liked the movie and it reminded me of when I was a kid and my dad bought me a Commodore 64 and 5 1/4 floppy drive and a 1-year subscription to Creative Computing magazine. I spen…