Great point, Steve.

Regardless of any issues I may have with the current US cabinet and the devastation it has wrought in the area of international relations, I have nothing but...

Rock climbing in Montagu, the best climbing spot in South Africa.  It's only about 2 hrs out of Cape Town, but you'll forget all about anything back in the city...

Here's an idea - major releases every five years (with a point release after 2-3yrs if they need something to feed the marketers).

But the biggest thing I'd like, especially with...

I think that for many of us, what keeps us from being excited about Microsoft's products is that they don't really seem keen to excite us.  In most areas of...

I do dev work at a data analysis company which reports on sales data for manufacturers.  What always surprises me is not that there are a staggering number of permutations...

All good points, but I take issue with the parallel drawn between using code from a forum and plagiarism or cheating in an exam.

Using forum code is roughly the equivalent...

GDR, QFE, ISM, KB... WTF?

No kidding.

I'm a developer from Monday to Friday, but what keeps me sane is the fact that I also go rock climbing a couple times a week, and spend about...

I definitely have no plans to upgrade.

Having had a pretty thorough time playing around with it, all it really has going for it is... it's pretty.

Great.  I really don't care...

ok, this is officially one of the coolest uses of internet technology ever...

seriously, though - the portability of skills.

I first taught myself programming when I was working in Korea, then did dome work in the states, and now I'm working in South...

The toys.

Oh, and the ridiculous perceptions of non-IT people that we somehow have the ability to recode their very DNA if they irritate us to much...

Ian,

On your two points:

1) - "energy" in this context is rather specious.  If the solar energy absorbed by the crops is high, it makes no difference - we wouldn't have...

Absolutely.

As disappointed as I was with the Dell laptop batteries fiasco last year, I was very impressed with the way that company handled it - no blame-shifting, no avoiding the...

well, I used to work in a team consisting of three guys.  Over the 6 months, both of the other guys have quit and have been replaced by women. 

So...