Made me Chuckle 09.26.2008
Posted by Matt Polito in Amusing on September 26, 2008 | No Comments
Go find those bugs, and help determine who is awarded the Rumble Championship Belt!*
* It’s a real belt. We’re dead f**king serious.
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Made me Chuckle: 09.25.2008
Posted by Matt Polito in Amusing on September 25, 2008 | No Comments
“It has been tested on Firefox 2.0, Safari 3.1.1 and IE 7 on Windoze Vista. Not tested on IE 6 because, quite frankly, it can fuck right off.”
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Bad place to cut text
Posted by Matt Polito in Amusing on September 22, 2008 | No Comments
Now I’m sure that this couldn’t be avoided… I mean, how would the system know to not cut off the text if it was a dirty word? Maybe a filter of some sort but that seems like more work than it’s worth. Anyhoo, I found this amusing and thought I’d share. It’s good that it’s funny, ’cause I’m pretty sure that as a recommendation… it didn’t help all that much.
The Man with Many Fabulous Prizes
Posted by Matt Polito in Personal on September 19, 2008 | No Comments
Although I’ve helped in many ways over the course of the last year in preparing the Windy City Rails conference, tomorrow I will perform the most important task of the day. I know, I know… you’re probably thinking “you’re not David Hansson, or David Chelimsky“. Yeah I’m not those guys, but… I’m the guy that’s gonna be giving you your prizes! And what glorious, might I even say fabulous, prizes they are!
Throughout the day we will be raffling off various O’Reilly and Addison Wesley books, screencasts from Pragmatic, and a free...
And you say that you never win anything?
Posted by Matt Polito in Uncategorized on September 16, 2008 | 1 Comment
So you think that you never win anything, huh. Well this just goes to show you that no matter how small the website, if you like the prize… go ahead and enter the damn contest.
It’s not often that you get odds like that in a contest.
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