I Like to Talk (Like Jeremy) – A Parody!
A full parody of me! I LOVE IT! Rob is the king of all podcast parodies! See what others are saying:
“Oh my god, it’s just like you honey, well, except it’s not as angry, and he swears less!”
- Wife
“OMG that is amazing. Are you parroting an actual Jeremy rant or is that entirely impromptu? If it’s impromptu you are my permanent hero.”
- Mark
“Who the fuck said you could use my book on your radio show?”
- Douglas R. Lincoln, author of The Cyclops and the Soprano
Software Engineering Quotes
This list is just too funny. I’m sorry to do this to you all, but yes, this post is a blatant redirect to this guy’s site. I appreciate that he was willing to compile the list, and for that he deserves the glory… or at least, the page hits.
http://paultiseo.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/top-13-funny-software-development-quotes/
I’ll reprint my favorite here:
“Nine people can’t make a baby in a month.” – Fred Brooks
In addition, some of my friends have added quotes in the comment page. They’re worth a read, too.
Tally HO!
I Like to Talk Episode 4 – Marriage
Ego-casting is enormously therapeutic. Today’s show is about Marriage and Poop!
Food is Good
I rant and rave a lot, but somethings always make me happy, like food. My friend Geoff sent this to me on a very long and annoying Thursday night. It cheered me up despite everything that was going on in the office. Click on the pic to enjoy the full glory of iron skillet chef cooking.
I Like to Talk Episode PI – Economic Stimulus and the Head Massa
Head Massa your economic “stimulus” does nothing for my package.
I Like to Talk Episode 1 – Intelligent Design
Whatever you believe about Intelligent Design, I challenge the way the theory is branded.
My all new Podcast
With a face for it, I introduce my next experiment: Internet Radio.
Today I tackle tough topics like introducing myself, and homosexuality, all in one show! With those headphones on, listen to the ADHD approved length of 7 minutes of potty talk here:
Mozilla and other open source customer service better than I expected
I have used lots of open source software, but I have not been a good bug submitter. I have rarely submitted bugs to the developers, mainly because I never thought people would pay attention to them, nor did I think the developers actually cared. Odd to admit my arrogance, since when I write code I genuinely care about it, and I should assume others do, too.
Recently I bit the bullet and submitted a (small) handful of bugs to different projects, and have been 100% happy and surprised with the responses. The most recent bug I submitted was to Mozilla, in regards to what I thought might have been a problem with their implementation of the JavaScript delete operator. The bug was submitted on January 12th, 2009. The first day the bug was passed around to real people given the real sounding email addresses. Commentary about the bug appeared in my inbox in real time. You can check out the progress here. Commentary continues to this day. [The bug was confirmed as a real bug while I wrote this.]
What’s different is most likely my expectations given the situation. I expect commercial corporations, like banks, phone companies, rental car companies, cable companies, to treat people appropriately and handle our complaints with interest and genuine care. I expect to deal with real people who I could potentially talk to again and again, and not just be shuttled around the system with a “complaint identification number.” After all, if they show they care, they might just get more money from me. Sadly, that seems to rarely be the case anymore, as even my wife has gotten into corporate customer service bashing on her blog.
Of course the Mozilla Foundation is not exactly a poor, garage shop operation, but they are non-profit and they’ve never seen a cent of my money. They haven’t jumped up and down, patted me on the back and said, “Good boy! Good boy! Find that bug! Yay!” but that isn’t what I wanted them to do. I wanted them to take a genuine interest in the problem I had, and assign resources to investigate. They seem to have done exactly the right thing.
Are we at the point where commercial corporations could learn a thing or two from non-profits and open source projects? Or perhaps are we now experiencing the difference between dealing with people who genuinely care and have a stake in something — open source projects for example — and people who don’t give a shit except about clocking in the hours for their next pay check — aka. customer service employees at for profit corporations?
I don’t know the answer to those questions. I do know that I’m more open to submitting bugs to open source software projects, and that’s a nice change.