"I found out that the US military use Windows," said Mr McKinnon in that BBC interview. "And having realised this, I assumed it would probably be an easy hack if they hadn't secured it properly."

As I've repeatedly asserted, Windows Vista isn't a bad operating system. But Vista has got a bad reputation—what I recently referred to as the high school slut. People want Vista for her pretty user interface, but they marry more matronly XP. Windows XP is less demanding (hardware requirements) and complains (Vista User Account Control) much less.

Get nine women pregnant, and you can make a baby in a month.
(Phrase it that way and even a manager can understand.)

There is a chance that firebreathing dragons will be produced by the LHC. But the probability of this event is so small, one can show that it will not happen in the lifetime of the universe.

I believe it was Roosevelt who said "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself". But then FDR never had to confront a Windows XP splash-screen.

Windows ME was "friendly" in the way that Special Ed kids are "friendly". They will generally try to be very nice to you, to the point of being annoyingly overbearing. You know they're trying their hardest, but you also know not to depend on them for anything important. If you want to play a serious game, forget it, as their tendency to fall over and/or crap themselves tends to spoil the fun.

It doesn't really matter what words mean in Scrabble, it's only a curiosity and a memory aid. Words are either playable, or they are not. The most interesting thing about the word "nigger" in Scrabble is that one may play an S at either end.

While going over my program, updating it for the next release, I found a somewhat serious bug. The bug is not from my code, but rather a long standing bug in the programming language.

Linus gets more patches while he is brushing his teeth than OpenSolaris gets in a week.

[13:46] bwaldher| oh snap
[13:46] bwaldher| I got a bag of crap