It sucks when you get waken up at 5h30-6h in the morning on a day off. It sucks even more when it's the leaking wall that wakes you up.

I live in a dorm. A 12 story high Dorm. Someone on the 10th floor forgot to close the window during the night. Hard to believe he 'forgot' considering it's 10 Degrees Celsius Below the freezing point outside.

Today is a Sad Day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C9cole_Polytechnique_Massacre

I've been trough Depression, again, and notice that depression is kinda like carrying the One Ring:

From Joel Spolsky (Joel On Software): http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1681964,00.asp

i've just read this news: http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/20/1542233&tid=127

The problems isn't just gaming or the Computer field, It' a bigger social problem.

Think about it for a second: why are some recent field held almost by exclusively by mens?

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot.

C++ makes it harder, but you blow your whole leg off.

A girl's conscience doesn't really keep her from doing anything wrong-- it merely keeps her from enjoying it.

I been stopped on the street by a member of Amnesty International. They were looking for subcribers to their (bi-monthly?) report.

They didn't manage to convince me as I don't have money left :(

By the girl who talked to me actually respected my opinion

There is a 'photo contest' for employees of the City of Montreal (I'm a student intern right now...)

"Presented in DoubleVision (where drunk)"

Can't remeber who had this sig, but I ever meet him in person, I'll buy him a local 8% beer :)

"Beer is one of the fundamental building blocks of the universe, like gravity and duct tape."

It's tourist season. I see licence plate from as far as Texas and Florida. I always wonder: what do these people seek here? It's a great place to live (except maybe for the cold) but I would not know what to visit here...

Can anyone enlightment me?

From here:

From this comment:
"Probably the feature of FOSS that makes it more secure is that it removes all PHBs(Pointy haired bosses for those who aren't dilbert fans)"

Microsoft's Programmers are not the source of problems in Windows and Office. It's the pressure from Marketing (Being the first on the market is more important than anything else...).