They are among us
When the answer is shorter than RTFM, you are not a BOFH: you are simply stupid.
Real life (3)
How many (supposed) web developers does it take to destroy the reputation of a well known website? Just one… who doesn’t protect the variables passed via HTTP GET against the XSS attack.
Andrea Rivera
Avevo deciso di non scrivere nulla, veramente. Quando però ho letto sul sito di “Repubblica” che “L’Osservatore Romano” aveva scritto: E’ terrorismo alimentare furori ciechi e irrazionali contro chi parla sempre in nome dell’amore. allora non ho più resistito. La frase, isolata, è certo sottoscrivibile ma vorrei capire come si possa definire terrorismo l’enunciazione di [...]
The conspiracy connoisseur
As I wrote here I can’t provide any real life examples of logical fallacies but I found the following dialogue very enlightening. A: «Al-Qaeda was not responsible for the September 11 attacks, responsibility really lay with (…).» B: «Interesting: could you please show me the proof?» A: «If I had been able to show you [...]
Now we rise and we are everywhere
Often I find myself thinking back to a very short video I saw on the Internet many months ago: it showed three or four young men quietly standing close to Nick Drake’s grave. They said nothing and you can hear only the twittering of the birds in the trees… they agreed to be filmed, standing [...]
99942 Apophis
I’ve got six words to say to 99942 Apophis: I put my trust in you :).
Dear big customer
Dear big customer, two years ago I described how I would have organized a piece of your network architecture to let one of your one hundred developers divisions use Subversion properly. Now a well known company tells you they would do the same and you really appreciate their suggests as you’ve never heard them before. [...]
A missed chemical engineer
During the last ten years more or less, I often wished to be a chemical engineer because I’m pretty sure that I could enjoy my free time without finding someone that bothers me with phrases like “You are a chemical engineer… oh, I was just looking for someone to fix the plant I have at [...]
Is it a real epidemy?
Writing using English helps me to avoid offending too much most of the Italian journalists :-\ I use the Internet every day for work, without any problems, even recently. Today I discovered they’ve started to bother all of us with a new national emergency: we would all be affected by a strong spyware epidemy. I [...]
Manuals and monkeys
One big difference between a monkey and a human is in their intelligence so every time it’s definitely sad to realize that the average project manager is driven to believe that giving a good manual to a monkey (written by a human of course) could help the hairy animal to fill its gap.
