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Evolution of a programmer

Check it out, very funny (if you’re a programmer ;))

Tiësto’s Club Life podcast 46

Check it out! The opening song is really good!  Link is here but it’s in Dutch.

beauty is in the eye of the admin

Imagine if this world is populated by only beautiful people. All the ugly ones are banned to Mars, and me and all the other beautiful people continue to live on Earth. What will happen then?

First of all: Men don’t have to ‘search’ for a hot date anymore. Any date is considered ‘hot’ in this world full of beauty. And because ‘beautiful’ often equals ‘superficiality’, you don’t have to think about her or his personality, because there is none to think about. Isn’t that perfect… erm beautiful?

D. surely wouldn’t be on Earth then. Fortunately for me, this theory only comes to practice at mooiemensen.com, where a stupid man and brilliant business guy (same person) thought up that you could join a dating site where you would be screened for beautiness. E.g.: you can only join if you’re pretty enough.

How’s that for elite-thinking? Everybody can join, except the ugly ones. It’s a silent but effective way of discrimination.

And I’m not even ugly… 

The stupidity of unasked venting one’s personal experiences, a.k.a. ‘blogging’

‘Today the coffee machine was replaced with a new model! Hooray! Now I can get my coffee much faster and it tastes better too!’

…just a random quote (or not-so-random? Fact is that this one inspired me to write this down) from some one’s blog. This friend of mine thinks it is actually interesting for the casual reader to know that the coffee machine at his work was replaced!

My question: what’s the drive? What is the drive for someone to write a web page full of personal experiences?

Maybe it’s because he wanted to write it off his chest. I suppose the happiness of having a new coffee machine at work couldn’t be expressed in real life, or at least wasn’t appreciated much. 

Maybe it’s a way to get a conversation going? ‘Hey I read you had your coffee machine replaced! What kind of machine is it? Oh right, I had that one at work too! Too bad I have quit the job!’ …let’s hope this is not the case.

It might be a filler too! You have a web page full of other crap about how your day was, but there’s something missing. ‘Hmm, let’s see… something catchy… Hey! The coffee machine! It got replaced today! That’s it!’ If that is the best you can come up with, please don’t write any more.

It is also possible the whole blog thing is just a popularity checker. ‘Let’s see how many people read my stuff’. Pathetic.

But how about yourself, D?