Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style.
A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace
failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of
us will ever be free.
"There were those who fought and cried before they ran
there were those who looked in vain for leading hands
and still we search for comfort in the sand
and an early mist that's rolling."
It has to be said that giving the computers a little reward every now and
again if they're well behaved is a good idea. However, the use of a *big*
stick (preferable something like a Bo or nunchuka if you're feeling really
nasty) as a threat to computers is a good thing. More than once I've fixed
a computer by being nice to it first, and when that failed threatening it
with a sledge hammer :).
How many net.jokers does it take to tell yet-another light bulb joke?
622 - One to tell the original joke, and the rest to give some minor
variation of it, believing this to constitute a great new joke that noone
else had ever thought of.
The Fringe
- Buy Two Books, Get the Third Free!
- New! O'Reilly Photography Learning Center
- O'Reilly Authors Get Jolted
- The Largest MySQL Gathering on Earth
- Free 14-Day Safari Trial
- Need I.T. Career Advice? Ask Trish.
- Larry The Cow Graphics Contest
- Interview with David Gallo and Cassius Adams from SevenL Networks, a sponsor of Gentoo for 6 years running.
- Gentoo at FrOSCon 5
- 2010 Gentoo Screenshot Contest Results
- Gentoo at LinuxTag 2010 in Berlin
- Gentoo Screenshot Contest 2010
- Gentoo White Nights in St. Petersburg/Russia
- Help Wanted: The Gentoo Foundation
- Interview with Andrzej Wasylkowski from the checkmycode project.

