coffeefog

sell phones

well, the "on" button on my cell phone has been busted for... oh... about a month now. it's the on/off/end call/exit menu button. My solution for ending a call or turning the phone off is to take out the battery. Turning the phone on is considerably harder - I spent over an hour last night trying to turn it on. I was unsuccessful. Another 15 minutes this morning and I still wasn't able to turn it on. But just now, on the first try in the past 2 hours, the phone turned on.

So it's time for a new cell phone. Fucking fuck.

Microsoft links:

• The Ten Rules of Performance as told by a MS developer. Nothing groundbreaking, but a good re-statement of fundamental performance problems when working on a large project.
  
• 4,000 occurences of the word "hack" in last week's leaked Windows source code. As in "THIS IS A HACK." Good stuff. And the article's written with a very reasonable attitude - having klocs full of hacks isn't actually a bad thing, just a fact of life.
  

Posted by Ethan at February 19, 2004 10:09 AM