Fun Links (in EMW's opinion)

• You wanna good drill in reading signal flags? Thanks to Randall Pittelli for writing this Perl script on his International Signal Flags website.  Test your self in reading both semaphores and signal flags. With Randall's help, I was able to get my recognition of signal flags back up to 100%.
  In fact, the signal flags used on this website and deployed with MidWatch come from Randall's site. Used with his permission (given 3/31/2000) I converted his .gifs to .png and set the background to transparent. This technically makes Randall, MidWatch's first official contributor.
• What do I do to get away from the computer? I play computer games of course! Visit my other labor of love, virtual-navy.com !
• Install mslinux released under the GPL (Gates Private License)

Geek Codes

See The Geek Code decoder page

• Jonathon Sambrook:
  -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
  Version: 3.12
  GCS d- s++:+ a- C++ UL P+ L++ E--- W++ N o- K- w++
  O-- M-- V- PS--- PE-- Y+ PGP+ t-- 5-- X- R- !tv b+++ DI-- D
  G-- e* h---- r+++ y++++
  ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
• Eric Woolhiser:
  -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
  Version: 3.12
  GCS d s+:++ a37>-- C++ L+>++ P+>+++ E--- W+++ N+ o- K+++ w+(++)$ O--- M-- V-- PS---
  PE++ Y+ PGP++ t+ 5-- X-- R-- tv-->--- b+>++ DI++++ D+ G+ e+(*)>+++ r+++ y++++ h---- 7
  ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

Quotables

• Software
  • "Release Early, Release Often!"
    -Eric Raymond
  • "Vote Early, Vote Often!"
    -Irish/American Political Adage
  • "Yes, but I said often frequently, only once!"
    -Gilbert & Sullivan
  • "Hardware is easier to fix, software is easier to change."
    -Bill Bruckert
  • "The irony of the Information Age is that it has given new respectability to uninformed opinion."
    -John Lawton 1995
  • "Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)" -Linus Torvalds
• Inspirational
  • "Good ideas are not accepted automatically; they must be driven into practice with courageous patience."
    -Admiral Hyman G. Rickover
• Anon (or at least unknown to me)
• "There are two rules to success. The first is: Don't tell them everything you know."
  -Anon
• "There are basically three kinds of people in this world: Those who can count and those who can't."
  -Anon
• Misc
  • "A nickel ain't worth a dime today."
    -Yogi Berra
  • "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is."
    -Yogi Berra
  • "I saw this one spider that got bitten by a radioactive spider and that spider got spider powers!"
    -Ranjit Bhatnagar
    
  • The Boulder Pledge
    "Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community."
    -Roger Ebert

Handy Phrases to Use Around the Totally Clueless

• Bungee Jumping for M&M's
  To describe any high risk / low potential reward activity.
  -Coined in BMC Software, joint colaboration of Eric Woolhiser, Dick Schoeller, Eric Dana, and Sandeep Prasad.
• Re-arrainging the deck chairs on the Titanic
  To describe spending a lot of time and energy on things that are picayune, irrelevant, or useless.
  -Marian Gorsline donna eam pacem