Got a brand new setup with ME pre installed. First thing that pops up is - Do you want to see a video of the features of Windows ME! Me, remind me later. Later, Do you want to see a video of the features of Windows ME! Me FFS where is the No, or don't ask me button! remind me later After a day or two it pops up again, so I think, Ok Bill I am going to make a coffee come back and sit down and watch this entire dumb video and be blown away. I make myself comfortable - take a sip of coffee, click the Watch button - no shitting you, Blue screen of death! Message never popped up again, but I reached for my Linux install CD's pretty soon after that.

Confusing

I have pretty much given up trying to be 'productive' at work. As a team leader I am normally dealing with questions and interruptions the entire time I am in the office. Fortunately, our team decided on something we call Core Hours. If you are at work you need to be around between 10am and 3pm for collaboration. So you can start early and leave early, start late leave late or do what I do: spend time at work to deal with the team - go home early then do the 'real work' after the kids are in bed. Now if I can just deal with my wife asking me questions while trying to hack away...

A group of Zoon diehards tried to block access to the Shareholders meeting demanding an offical statement on when Windows 10 will support the device so historical playlists can be updated...

So they are finally ported it to a Linux based VM

I use my headphones all day while coding, I don't want to have to recharge them every hour or so.

Streams are my new happy place - mostly. I still use the for loops, but it has helped make some hard to understand for loop logic much clearer to understand.

The quotes should have been around 'Nearby' as well as 'Earth-Like'. Throw me a freckn bone.

So... they have renamed Windows Media Player - Edge?

Most of the developers in my team would pay money not to get distracted. This would be annoying to me.

I have started going through the "Skip Wilson" tutorials and have found the language quite refreshing - borrowing mainly from JS / Java / Python imo. But then again anything more refreshing than my PHP day job.

One byte at a time

I am often amazed when I merge my hours / days of work into the main branch once tested and complete. It normally amounts to a few lines. Its not often one gets to romp in the green fields.

You insensitive clod.

This reminds me of the old days when I was going to write the next great game on the ZX Spectrum. You had to first make the coolest intro screen before writing an inch of code, that's normally all you got out the door.