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Out of the mouths of Astronauts…
Applies to IT as well:
“And it’s worth remembering, too, there’s no problem so bad that you can’t make it worse also.”
– Commander Chris Hadfield, Canadian Astronaut
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Apparently George Romero was right…
That a deadly virus would escape from the military possibly causing zombies:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/11/17/stuxnet.virus
He was just wrong that humans would be the target.
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Forget the stores…
If you’re looking for a new laptop, clearly the place to go is the airport!
Over 637,000 served!
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Bill Gates retires?
A “kind of” funny video about Bill Gates “retirement”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr5w3X4R8b4
It’s perhaps a little too self aware and woody but still worth watching.
Of course if you’re a bit of an Open Source person like myself, you might also enjoy this:
http://strom.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/giving-thanks-to-bill-gates
It has a little “bite” shall we say though.
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IT Acronym Hell
Whenever I enter IT acronym hell (SOA, ITIL, IPAM, ETL, etc, etc…) I always think of this quote:
“Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn’t we keep the PC on the QT? ‘Cause if it leaks to the VC he could end up MIA, and then we’d all be put on KP.”
– Robin Williams playing Adrian Cronauer, Good Morning Vietnam