I am singularly disgusted and appalled that Google have no Python graphic. Spam them!

I agree with most of Joel's post. What bothers me with this kind of thing is that there are a lot of idiots out there just waiting for an excuse for their poor standards. For every real Duct Tape Programmer there are ten buffoons who will now take that label for themselves. But hell they shoudln't be hard to spot.

Its petrified cheese I tell you. I've eaten cheese which tasted like petrified wood. No. Wait... that was aged Belgian cheese!! I say the visit of the Apollo 11 astronauts to Holland was obviously faked and staged in Belgium.

because many corporations - including mine - have spyware which go crying back to your IT folks whenever you attach a USB device. Sad but true.

Don't do it. Even if you make an arrangement with your company, put it in writing, etc, you have no way of knowing who might buy your company, what their policies might be and how aggressive they might be about cashing in on IP which they claim to own through lawyer-spending-power. I write - fiction not code - and I never, ever use company hardware or time to do it. It's just not worth it. I don't even write notes on company notepaper. It isn't just paranoia, its also fair play to separate the two. When I couldn't afford my own laptop, I bought an Axim and used that instead.

Unless you have your class one hundred percent nailed, the differences are cancelled out by differences in individual skill, approach and work-ethic in most games. Personally, I prefer to pick a class which is inferior in some respects and work against that. It's more of a challenge. I would say that the imbalances only really show up at the uber-hardcore level and of course those folks are often the most vocal.

Microsoft has been in a death spiral for years. It is the corporate equivalent of the undead :) But seriously, Google are too big. Real paradigm shifts are brought about by small, agile organisations with a massive idea. Like mammals taking on the dinosaurs.

Imagine how frustrating it would be if your sensors - bluetooth I assume - wouldn't pair back up. Starbux might not be too happy about people fishing around to make em discoverable. And I don't want some buttchalker taking my biometric feedback while I'm mid-latte either!

Don't sweat it. Marriage & relationship guides are just another kind of porn. They present someone's idea of perfection for you to aspire to and fail at. Every single person and every single couple is a unique combination, you just need to feel your way through it. What worked for me is: respect your differences, make space for each other and make time for each other too. Be friends. Make sure you communicate your feelings, If you really are both geeks, don't over-analyse your problems, relationships don't do logic and you will go crazy trying to work out the maths :)