Changing minds and persuasion — How we change what others think, believe, feel and do – this site is about mind control! Or rather, cheap salesman shticks, things like Feel, felt, found (I understand you feel about that. Many others have felt the same way. And what they have found is that….
) (an example of Objection handling techniques).
I feel dirty just reading this.
Rick Schaut (a Microsoft programmer working on the Macintosh version of Word, who I got to by xslf’s link to a long and patient discussion he has with a pair of AbiWord developers) posted a link to a list of funny C compiler error messages from the old Mac MPW compiler. Apparently, someone in Apple is rumoured to be adding these to the new Mac OS X compilers.
(I suspect I gave a bit too much context in that paragraph. This without mentioning that, oddly enough, I looked at AbiWord just the other day, after reading bad things about how OpenOffice now requires Java. And noticing that if I uninstalled all of MS Office from my laptop, I could have room for, oh, two more episodes of Justice League Unlimited).
Anyway, you have to admire a compiler that instead of spouting obscure gibberish actually says things like:
This is pretty late, but since I’m clearing out my “stuff to blog” list, this is just a notice that I’ve converted to MP3 the BBC BBC’s Mister Punch Radio Play, written by Neil Gaiman and based on the graphic novel he did with Dave McKean. I haven’t listened to it really, or read the graphic novel for that matter, but I got into the habit.
And yeah, it’s 85Mb, so I’m not putting it online unless someone asks. It might still be listenable online.