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My “Microsoft: Stop Making Fun of Us” Slide

May 10, 2009

I started my presentation at WordCamp Toronto 2009 yesterday – Better Living Through Blogging — with this slide, which got a lot of laughs. A number of people have requested it, and I’m only too happy to oblige. Here you go: share and enjoy!
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Career-Limiting Move

May 3, 2009

When using your company-assigned laptop to make presentations, remember to disable your pornographically-themed screensaver (and yes, the video below is not safe for work):

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If Everything was Made by Microsoft

April 30, 2009

Cracked asked its readers to show them what the world would look like if everything in it was made by The Empire. Of the images they submitted. the one below is my favourite – I’ve joked in front of audiences that we make too many versions of Windows and am anxiously awaiting the release of [...]

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More Assless Chaps Photos

April 28, 2009

I’ll admit it: I like typing out the phrase “assless chaps”. Here are a couple more photos of me showing off said assless chaps in the speaker’s room at Saturday’s Toronto Code Camp (which I wrote about in this post).
Here I am holding up the assless chaps prior to donning them:

…and here I am modelling [...]

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“XZIBIT” Explains Virtualization

April 13, 2009

Don’t get the joke? Know Your Meme does a fine job explaining the XZIBIT “Yo Dawg” meme in this article as well in the video shown below.

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“If You’re Not Indie, F**K YOU!”

April 4, 2009

Here’s a great video inspired by Andy Samberg’s People Getting Punched Out Just Before Eating short film from Saturday Night Live made to promote the Independent Games Festival at the Game Developers Conference 2009:

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An Ad for Dharma Initiative Computers

March 25, 2009

This ad won’t make any sense if you’re not a follower of the TV series Lost. However, if you are, you’ll find it amusing…
Click the ad to see the original on its Flickr page.

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Old Man Stewart and Young Man Williams Talk About Twitter on TV

March 3, 2009

Here’s the bit from last night’s Daily Show called Old Man Stewart Shakes His Fist at Twitter, courtesy of VentureBeat (at least until the folks at YouTube have to remove the video):

And for those of you who missed it, here’s Twitter co-founder and chief exec Evan Williams talking about Twitter on Charlie Rose, once again [...]

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“Ensign Crusher, Report to My Ready Room. Oh Yes, and Wear the Sweater.”

March 2, 2009

For no other reason than the geeky amusement it will provide, here’s Wil Wheaton in a clown sweater:

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“Pocket-Sized”

March 2, 2009

It’s a bit of a stretch to think of the Vaio netbook as pocket-sized, but you can fit more of it in your pocket than most other computers…
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By the bye, a little fashion tip: pleated pants (like those in the topmost photo) make you look fat.

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“Everything is Amazing Right Now, and Nobody’s Happy”

February 25, 2009

Over at Kevin Kelly’s blog, The Technium, there’s a video of an amusing interview on Conan O’Brien where comedian Louis CK talks about how we take today’s technology and the way it improves our lives for granted. Kelly describes it as "a cartoon version of a more serious argument that we become blind to progress".

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Future Man Tried to Warn Us

February 23, 2009

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Hitler’s Nightly Build Fails

February 20, 2009

I sometimes refer to people who are incredibility dogmatic about their particular Agile or Extreme Programming methodology as “Agile Nazis”. But what if Agile Nazis literally existed? I think their project meetings would go something like this YouTube remix titled Hitler’s Nightly Build Fails…

(Thanks to Jodi Showers for the link!)

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Happy Valentine’s Day, Skywalker Style!

February 14, 2009

Even though it’s been almost four months since I’ve joined Microsoft, I’m still asked the question “Joey, why did you join the Dark Side?”
There are many reasons for joining the Dark Side. One of them is that the Rebels are sick, sick puppies:
Card courtesy of Ben Congdon.
Happy Valentine’s Day. my fellow [...]

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The “Star Trek” Plotline Flowchart

January 31, 2009

If you watch the Star Trek original series, you’ve probably already internalized what’s in this flowchart created by Stephanie Fox for the sci-fi blog io9.com:
Click the chart to see it at full size.

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