Attorney and activist Jack Thompson yesterday wrote a letter to Bill Gates blaming him for the Virginia Tech shootings. Thompson claims that Cho Seung Hui was trained to enjoy violent killing by playing Counterstrike, which he claims Microsoft developed. Mr. Gates, your company is potentially legally liable the harm done at Virginia Tech. Your game, [...]
It’s been a week since I started working for Microsoft. So far, so good. The best part of this internship so far is the location. Washington is like one huge suburb. No matter how far I drive in any direction it’s the same — beautiful homes spaced out among plenty of grass and trees, people [...]
For a couple minutes, I just couldn’t figure out why this site had slowed to a crawl. After eliminating more serious potential causes (compromised server, DoS of some sort, etc), and taking a look at the bandwidth graphs, it finally dawned on me. This new server was maxing out its 10mbps port because I had [...]
“The Daily WTF” has been on my daily reading list for a long time, and I do read it every day. Last week the site changed its name to “Worse Than Failure” and kicked off with an interesting post by Alex on the new name and how it applies to all the programmers that read [...]
I like my keyboards. The last time I used the keyboard that came with a computer was the custom painted one that came with an Alienware system in 1999. Since then I’ve gone through quite a few from Microsoft, Logitech and Kensington. The latest one I tried out was a Kensington wireless keyboard and mouse [...]
I just got a voice mail and e-mail from one of the Microsoft recruiters I interviewed with last week letting me know I have a job. They’re hiring me as an Application Developer. I’ll be writing both Windows and web applications with C#/ASP.NET and SQL server.
I finally had the last of this round of interviews — my first attempt to find a coop job for April through September to finish the work experience requirement of my degree at Drexel. I met with two really nice people from Microsoft in the morning. First, a recruiter for the IT department that just [...]
Looks like I won’t be packing up and moving out to California in April; Google turned me down for the job I applied to. Maybe that second interviewer‘s questioning really did mean they wanted a C coder despite the job description listing C++.
Two of the new reports I hope to provide with the new W3Counter are whether a site’s visitors have Flash and Java installed. Since different browsers, and different versions of browsers, make plugin information available in different ways, this is proving more challenging than expected. I have a first attempt at detection of Flash and [...]
