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May 21, 2008
by Dirk Watkins
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The Wisdom of Debugging

“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.”

March 25, 2008
by Dirk Watkins
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Spreadsheet Puzzle Game

Here’s a new game that I found that is pretty fun.  It takes the idea of an Excel spreadsheet and makes it fun.  You need to move around filled in cells and use warps to get to a goal. Kind of like Kwirk in a way except that you don’t move the boxes.  There is another Game Boy game that is close but I can’t, for the life of me, remember what it was called.

Anyway, here it is: Excit

March 13, 2008
by Dirk Watkins
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Superfluous Mission Statements

It’s our responsibility to dramatically provide access to resource-leveling meta-services in order to professionally promote emerging products while maintaining the highest standards

 or

Our mission is to authoritatively fashion professional intellectual capital so that we may endeavor to seamlessly engineer excellent information to stay competitive in tomorrow’s world

or

It’s our responsibility to authoritatively negotiate innovative services in order to solve business problemsor

Our mission is to interactively create virtual data to meet our customer’s needs

Oh, it’s soo good: http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/games/career/bin/ms.cgi