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• Government Announces Penguin-Proof Firewall 1 month, 2 weeks ago
  
  Today, government spokesman Uma Head made a startling announcement - that there were too many foreign operating systems in Britain today, and something needed to be done. She declared, "Over the past decade or so, we have seen an unprecedented rise in the choice of operating system, at the cost of our own native operating systems."
• Where annoying tech buzzwords come from 4 months ago
  
  What do you do when you want to emphasize the cool newness of something that's not really new? Make a buzzword!
• Accessibility mashups: AxsJAX fun with XKCD Comics 4 months, 4 weeks ago
  
  "Earlier this year, I blogged about the potential presented by accessibility mashups with respect to delivering web interfaces that are optimized to a user's special needs. More recently, my office-mate Charles Chen and I blogged about our work on AxsJAX as a framework for leveraging Web-2.0 for injecting accessibility enhancements into web applications.
• Meet Joe Bloggs - Episode 36 5 months, 1 week ago
  
  As a developer how much do you trust your Boss? Enough to let him or her install an operating system? Find out the consequences when Joe Bloggs relents and lets his boss do an install unaided...
• Meet Joe Blogss - Episode 35: Colours 7 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  There we are, one minute a couple of us are playing around with Google's Web Toolkit, and the next the Boss looks over our shoulders and starts jumping up and down excitedly. No, it's not his bladder problem flaring up again. It's not even because Alison's 'accidentally' elbowed him in the gonads again. It's worse than that, it's because he's seen nice colours on the screen....
• Subway Stations of the Internet 10 months ago
  
  "This is the top left corner of Web Trend Map 2007 Version 2. It's based on the Japanese subway system. The creators are Information Architects, a Japan-based design agency. They took the top 200 tech (definitely tech) sites and placed them along subway lines ...."
• Episode 33 of Meet Joe Bloggs 12 months ago
  
  TBR writes "What do you do if you're a developer and you're faced with yet another lame HR policy? Do you really have to show you're a team player by signing birthday cards for people you've never met? Find out how Joe Bloggs and his developers deal with the situation in episode 33 of TechBookReport's 'Meet Joe Bloggs' satirical series."
• Meet Joe Bloggs - Hack Something Together 1 year, 1 month ago
  
  TBR writes "In episode 32 of the TechBookReport satirical series 'Meet Joe Bloggs' we find the team being pressured to just hack something together..."
• Meet Joe Bloggs - Episode 31 1 year, 1 month ago
  
  TBR writes "We've all heard about Extreme Programming, but what about 'extremist programming'? Joe Bloggs finds out when a member of his team comes back from an extremist programming training course..."
• IT Job Titles Gone Wild humor 1 year, 2 months ago
  
  Mark Rais writes "In this article, Koenning discovers what life could be like if technology job titles matched the actual work performed. From the CEO to the janitor, this covers the spectrum of ridiculous but rather real job titles. The list is quite rich: senior ignoramus, assistant flagellation toy, egg man and more."
• Meet Joe Bloggs - Episode 30 1 year, 3 months ago
  
  TBR writes "Governance is a vexed issue in software development. Who is that decides on what gets done and when? In episode 30 of Meet Joe Bloggs Joe's Boss decides that a new governance structure is needed. Do they go the ITIL route, or something better? Find out more in TechBookReport's soap that knows its SOAP."
• The three types of Linux users 1 year, 4 months ago
  
  Rich Morgan writes "The Linux community is heading for a clash between three disparate groups with very different goals and agendas. We've already seen some light skirmishes between them already. Sometimes these groups will align for the purposes of advancing their own views, but for the most part, these three groups will either destroy Linux as we know it or have to learn how to get along. Just about the only thing these groups have in common are the passion for their viewpoints. Can these three groups get along in the end and work toward a common goal? Will Linux be pulled apart and allow Windows to win by default?"
• Linux Loving Men Are Sexier 1 year, 4 months ago
  
  Mark Rais writes "Andrea writes: "No one had broached the subject. My inquiries with girlfriends and colleagues led me down a path into a revealing and sensual world as yet undiscovered. I discovered intimate bedroom secrets of why some women are explicitly attracted to those lovable fellows who prefer the penguin..."
• Meet Joe Bloggs - Resolutions 1 year, 4 months ago
  
  TBR writes "Now is the time of year to make resolutions. Joe Bloggs is no different. How do his developer resolutions cope with the New Year?"
• The goofiest tech moves of 2006 1 year, 5 months ago
  
  Somebody must have been hitting the egg nog a little early this year. How else to explain some of the more bizarre happenings in the computer business in recent memory?
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