Somniloquacity

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 05:54:26 -0500

Patient in flash coat talking to doctor.

Inside Job

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 23:02:38 -0500

Google Fish

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 06:37:36 -0500

Poster showing happy angler with arms outstretched. One hand displays several fish. Other hand casts from fishing rod into peaceful ...

Incompatibility

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 07:12:03 -0500

Why didn't the boy mouse get on with the girl mouse?

Hear Me Croak

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 06:06:21 -0500

Large toad is going DOT DOT CROAK.

Cover Pictures

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 23:25:29 -0500

There are many versions of the joke below. This one, from Funny and Jokes's ...

The Ills That Steel's not Heir To

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 07:04:49 -0500

Furious researcher clutches sheet saying 'income tax due Jan 31', bouncing a desk calendar dated Jan 24th towards a window showing rain...
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<h1>SQL Jokes</h1>
<p>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 06:58:11 -0500</p>
An SQL query went into a bar. He walked up to two tables and said,

Amazing Story, Amazing Cover

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 08:56:55 -0500

Last week, I mentioned John Campbell's SF story The Last Evolution, published in the August 1932 the ultimate computer story. The Command Line Phone, Al Williams expresses perplexity at the Android tablet's gra...

SAnTa NAV

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:22:52 -0500

Santa and reindeer against moon, overlooking the Sphinx and two pyramids. Nearest reindeer is saying: Er, Santa? Was it wise to let the elves program the sat nav.

A Christmas Puzzle

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 19:00:01 -0500

On my way from Oxford to Wendover to visit relatives for Christmas, I stopped at the Oxfam bookshop in Aylesbury. This always has an excellent SF section, crammed with books from the 50s, 60s, and...

How to Modularise a Spreadsheet

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:01:26 -0500

In this series of postings, I'm going to explain how I modularise Excel spreadsheets. That is, how I break them into parts that can be separately documented, tested, and debugged; and how I share ...

Plain English

Sun, 19 Dec 2010 19:00:01 -0500

In some New Statesman literary competition, I once read the following quatrain:

I love my Kellog's All-Bran,
It fills me with elation;
It's quick and easy a...

How to Reveal Implicit Structure in Spreadsheets

Sun, 19 Dec 2010 16:22:28 -0500

For a conference, I once drew a cartoon about spreadsheets. It showed a City gent staring despairingly at an Excel formula while behind him, Excel developers in Canary Wharf fretted. Like this:

Casting One's Bread

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:44:51 -0500

Frame 1: A: I've bought a new toaster. B: [t...

Plain Language

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:01:20 -0500

This morning, I was berating my brain. If I were supple enough, I'd have given it a good kick. Because it couldn't remember how to open and print to a Unicode file in Java. (You create a new File...

Greater and Lesser

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 03:46:21 -0500

A weevil, captioned 'A WEEVIL'; and a child weevil with mother, captioned 'THE LESSER OF TWO WEEVILS'.

The Ultimate Computer Story

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 07:00:13 -0500

I just found a copy of my favourite Asimov online. It was written half a century ago, but it is still the ultimate computer story

On the Drawbacks of Modern Technology

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 05:22:08 -0500

Sketch of man using mobile phone, sayiong loudly 'HEY SIMON, IT'S JOHN ROGERS. I'm ON THE TRAIN AND EVERYONE KNOWS IT. WHAT IS THE AGR...
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<h1>Google Aren't Idle</h1>
<p>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 19:00:00 -0500</p>
Google Aren't Idle
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<h1>Fearful Vista</h1>
<p>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 05:15:09 -0500</p>
Robot fleeing, screaming NOOOOH! I DON'T _WANT_ TO RUN WINDOWS!
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<h1>In Silicon No One Can Hear You Scream</h1>
<p>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 03:17:43 -0500</p>
In his book of TV reviews

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