http://www.wordyard.com/2005/08/04/the-black-screen-of-death/ Technology, politics, culture Mon, 12 May 2008 05:47:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 http://www.wordyard.com/2005/08/04/the-black-screen-of-death/#comment-2388 Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard » Blog Archive » Disk — raw or cooked Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:05:19 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/2005/08/04/the-black-screen-of-death/#comment-2388 [...] motherboard fried during the middle of my labors on Dreaming in Code. So maybe I get one technical disaster per book [...] […] motherboard fried during the middle of my labors on Dreaming in Code. So maybe I get one technical disaster per book […]

]]> http://www.wordyard.com/2005/08/04/the-black-screen-of-death/#comment-2217 Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard » Blog Archive » Singing in Code Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:33:58 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/2005/08/04/the-black-screen-of-death/#comment-2217 [...] (2) “Bill Gates Must Die,” John Vanderslice — Certainly, most open source developers aren’t obsessive sociopaths like this song’s narrator. But they have always harbored a certain animosity toward the founder of Microsoft, and sometimes it gets a little personal. (Bonus rationale: This song once fried my motherboard.) [...] […] (2) “Bill Gates Must Die,” John Vanderslice — Certainly, most open source developers aren’t obsessive sociopaths like this song’s narrator. But they have always harbored a certain animosity toward the founder of Microsoft, and sometimes it gets a little personal. (Bonus rationale: This song once fried my motherboard.) […]

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