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“Cool Guys Don’t Look At Explosions”:

Oh, like I’m the only one who imagines myself walking away in slow motion from a stack trace I just caused.

Well, now that I can find it, I can comment on this Information Week article, “Omnipotent Hacker Myth Lets Business Off The Hook“, which says:
If you don’t know much about computer security, you might come away from the past few months with the i…

An element of the recent high-profile American trial of Casey Anthony that should be of interest to us:
Assertions by the prosecution that Casey Anthony conducted extensive computer searches on the word “chloroform” were based on inaccurate data, a…

I don’t know why, but when I conduct this search on one of my machines, the result is:

I, too, am one of nothing.
Strangely enough, this works on another of my machines and yields search results. I don’t know if it’s browser incompatibility or …

Or, as Joe Flood reiterates, “The Software Is Wrong, Not The People“:
The media library in WordPress was discussed. Mullenweg admitted that it is confusing and gets difficult to manage once you have lots of images in the library. A man in the audie…

I’ve spoken on many occasions about the pitfalls of putting the labels within the text boxes in a data collection form. I know, the designers are all about the “real estate” as though they’re subdividing oceanfront lots in New Jersey, but they…

Toyota.com’s Spanish site is very good. Most elements, error messages, and alt text is translated. Say, 99% of it.
But not all of it:

You can always find something not translated on a foreign language version of a Web site within a couple minute…

A slide in a Forbes slideshow discusses a disappearing job:
Proofreaders and Copy Markers
Five-year decline: 31%
Why it’s declining: This middle-class job requiring a four-year college degree and offering flexibility and an average salary of about $3…

Sorry, I meant Cain and Abel, “Retribution”:

Full disclosure: One of those guys is my cousin. Probably the angry one.

The Wall Street Journal has an article about cascading failures in airline computer systems:

Whether it’s caused by a power failure or a possum, an airline computer outage unleashes more problems more quickly than similar breakdowns in almost any ot…