The full sensory experience of Linux on a Dell M4300: sound, vision and tinfoil-hat microwaves January 7th, 2008

Gutsy Gibbon on a Dell: almost everything has been fixed (edit: see Hardy Heron for absolutely everything being fixed).

“You have to have something bad happen to you” January 7th, 2008

Steve Yegge on code’s worst enemy:
… This brings us to the second obviously-bad thing that can go wrong with code bases: copy and paste. It doesn’t take very long for programmers to learn this lesson the hard way. It’s not so much a rule you have to memorize as a scar you’re going to get [...]