March 28, 2010

Software industry hijinks

The approach of April Fool’s Day has me thinking of software industry pranks and other hijinks. Most of what comes to mind is verbal jousting of various sorts that doesn’t really fit the theme. But there was one case in which ongoing business competition got pretty prankish: mainframe-era accounting software leaders MSA vs. McCormack & Dodge. Read more

February 6, 2007

How soon they forget

I was just writing about LinkedIn again, and was reminded that nobody ever answered the trivia question based on this post:

Who was the original fictitious Rob Carpenter?

January 22, 2007

A humorous take on programming history

It’s oh-so-retro in these days of YouTube pyrotechnics, but I love this.

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