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  1. @aprildunford Wait for the memoir, where she'll complain about how awful is it to be Joanne Kates.
  2. To the moron who takes 8 steps to post on my moderated forum: keep it up. Killing you takes 2 clicks. Wasting your time is a public service.
  3. @mathewi The way to spot a really, really weak position is when the ad hominem attacks start in the title, though that's the writer's spin.
  4. @mathewi the aspect of editing as "someone who makes sure you're saying what you want to say" remains of value though.
  5. Google used to say "do no evil". Then IPOed and became subject to market. Facebook faces the same change, except they start at semi-evil.
  6. @aprildunford I think that makes you the smartest of the bunch! @robtyrie
  7. @RobTyrie @aprildunford Go away, or I shall send obscure and/or mangled Monty Python quotes in your general direction a second time!
  8. @jkozuch What the AOL browser isn't available? Surely MS could donate WebTV...
  9. @aprildunford "estival" is a $5 word for summer; "slarv" is a $25 import for cheap. I have mastered the Thesaurus. Whoop. (cc @RobTyrie)
  10. Looking forward to an estival day. (see what I did there, @RobTyrie & @aprildunford ?) Snicker. That was a slarv trick.
  11. @RobTyrie @aprildunford I admit, I have imagined him and Martin Amis in a circle jerk of overwrought obfuscation masquerading as wit.
  12. @rhh I think I've heard of them... the Professional Agitators Society of Upper Canada or some such. Trample their rights, I say!
  13. @aprildunford Thus it gives me immense pleasure to call him the erudite immigrant convicted felon Conrad Black, with no fear of being sued.
  14. @aprildunford I hold great disdain for his form of capitalism, back to the days of Dominion and Massey Ferguson.
  15. @aprildunford Do you think convicted felons generally dislike social media or does he have a specific problem with transparency?
  16. @pkedrosky Darn. I needed a Russian botnet mastermind ninja.
  17. ...which I implemented with a test driven methodology, delivered the final result, which both works and kicks butt. Beer time!
  18. Bloody hell. Simple idea requires implementation of benign feature, which exposes structural test problem, major refactor sparks idea #2...
  19. @pkedrosky You need to adapt Richard Stallman's terms of engagement notes. That should do the trick.