The geniuses at Google asking if a wreck 30m down in the Red Sea has a wheelchair accessible entrance!! Didn’t notice one 🙂
Tag : Tech
Wife 2.0 – Product Warning
Last year a friend of mine upgraded GirlFriend 1.0 to Wife 1.0 and found that it’s a memory hog leaving very little system resources for other applications. He is only now noticing that Wife 1.0 also is spawning Child-Processes which are further consuming valuable resources. No mention of this particular phenomena was included in the product brochure or the documentation, though other users have informed him that this is to be expected due to the nature of the application.
Santa Claus – Engineer’s view
I. There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the Population Reference Bureau). At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per house hold, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming that there is at least one good child in each. (more…)
Girlfriend 1.0
Dear Technical Support,
18 months ago, I upgraded to Girlfriend 1.0 from Drinking Mates 4.2, which had used for years without any trouble. However, there are apparently conflicts between these two products and the only solution was to try and run Girlfriend 1.0 with the sound turned off.
Engineers explained
People who work in the fields of science and technology are not like other people. This can be frustrating to the nontechnical people who have to deal with them. The secret to coping with technology-oriented people is to understand their motivations. This page will teach you everything you need to know. I learned their customs and mannerisms by observing them, much the way Jane Goodall learned about the great apes, but without the hassle of grooming.
Computer Viruses from the 1990s
Remember any these 40+ viruses from 30 years ago? Still funny after all these years 🙂
Ellen Degeneres virus – Your IBM suddenly claims it’s a MAC.
Titanic virus – Makes your whole computer go down.
Disney virus – Everything in the computer goes Goofy.
Mike Tyson virus – Quits after one byte.
Viagra virus – Expands your hard drive while putting too much pressure on your zip drive.