I just noticed the following bug in Google. Do a search for xml database, then do one for xml and database. Notice a difference?

The only reason I consider it a bug is that Google has the following message under the results for the second query

The "AND" operator is unnecessary -- we include all search terms by default

as well as the text here which implies the word "and" is ignored.

 

 

AMUSING LINK OF THE DAY

 

 

Miguel de Icaza [at dinner tonight with some fellow Borg members]

Software is like sex. You can hire a professional but its more fun when you do it by yourself.

 

 

Feels weird. I've left Atlanta permanently for Redmond.

 

 

Just when I thought Signal 11's whining couldn't get any louder, he outdoes himself with this thoughts of suicide submission to the story queue. Signal 11's attention whoring and general cluelessness about life have finally pissed me off enough to break my personal rule to not resort to personal attacks in a diary. Rant below.

 

 

This entire thread is dumb. From the submitters clueless yet willing to draw paranoid conclusions postings to Jamie's inadvertant confession that he has no idea what he is talking about especially when it comes to technology but won't fail to bash MSFT when he gets the chance.

That bites, I was really hoping for an informed technical discussion on the merits/demerits of the CLR vs. the JVM but it seems so far unless I go ahead and write it up I'm never going to see it. *sigh*

 

 

OK, this is going to be long. The pivotal event in my life occured yesterday and now I can catch everyone up on what's been going on with me in no particular order.

Most importantly, Igraduated this past fall with HIGHEST HONORS. Or so I thought.

Well, it turned out that I failed Physics (Yeah, taking 20 hours at Georgia Tech while writing articles on the side isn't as smart as I thought it was) and now may have to stick around for a semester and retake Physics.

More below.

 

 

The only thing more irritating than the mind numbing lack of Technical articles on K5 is the fact that one of Signal 11's whiny, how-hard-I-have-it-as-a-white-male articles made it to the front page.

When exactly did K5's readership change so much? I seem to remember a much more technical crowd especially when I go back and read the responses to some of my old stories.

 

 

So I got C#/Java article got posted on Slashdot and knew it was just a matter of time before some idiot who didn't read the article posted some idiocy similar to Eloquence's crap from my Open Source and security article about how it was written by an MSFT shill.

I am highly amused. Just like I thought I found a good Carnage4Life is a MSFT shill thread with some twit from

 

 

This post by greenrd amused a few of us in school today. It's a typical example of how the "can't codes" that visit Slashdot think programming is such a magical activity that the shitty practices in some Open Source code can be excused because those programmers are l337 h4x0rs.