Humor

“Have you tried turning it on and off again?”
In the gleaming high-rise offices of Reynholm Industries, powerful executives oversee billion dollar business deals. But in the dark and shabby basement, the company’s IT Support Team — bitter slacker Roy (Chris O Dowd), socially inept Moss (Richard Ayoade), and their new boss, computer illiterate Jen (Katherine [...]

My friend Richard Campbell and I spent the morning recording a couple episodes of RunAs Radio for publication in the near future. One of our guests (whom we shall reveal when the show is published) provided some amazingly great information about using Performance Monitor, or “perfmon” for short. He’s a perfmon ninja, really. I’m excited [...]

Everything about this video — The Website is Down — is so sarcastically and stereotypically hilarious. Josh Weinberg (the creator) is my new hero.
A mashup of true and mostly-true stories from IT hell. If you’ve ever called tech support and wondered what the hell they are doing down there… well, this should answer some questions [...]

Ontrack Data Recovery has unveiled its annual Top Ten list of the strangest and funniest computer mishaps in 2005. Taken from a global poll of Ontrack data recovery experts, this year’s list of bizarre data disasters is even more incredible when you consider that in each case cited, Ontrack actually recovered the data.
“Ontrack Data [...]

So negative you are. Lighten up you must.
So - Before you say “Microsoft sucks” one more time, just let yourself laugh at what some of its employees manage to come up with from time to time.
Case in point: YODA, the programming language.
Matt Warren posted his idea to build a programming language in Yoda-like English (can’t [...]

I’m sure a lot of you have seen the MTV television show called Pimp My Ride.
They take beaten up vehicles and transform them into something beyond the
owners’ wildest dreams. This got me to thinking: Why couldn’t this be done
for computers? Not only would it provide great advertising for a computer
company but it would also [...]

“What’s the best thing that ever got canned? It has to be air*. On the surface this sounds like a complete rip-off, but for sheer geekertainment value, it may well be the best thing to get canned since Nicolas Appert invented the canning process in 1811. Having lost more men to malnutrition, starvation, and scurvy [...]

I have to tell you about my new operating system. No, it isn’t XP, Linux, or Mac. It is the Zebra 5000, Home Edition! It cost me $500, but it is well worth it. You don’t mind spending the extra money when you get quality! Let me tell you about [...]

Santa’s having a rough year. Go go JibJab. Niiice.
Be sure to click on the link to send toys to kids in Iraq. It’s time to give a little.
Update: By way of Sean Alexander, It’s a Wonderful Life, in 30 seconds, performed by bunnies. Uh, yeah. Enjoy.

I love to phish! I have since it first came about. I know that sounds crazy, but rarely does one get such opportunities!
Let me explain. When I get a notice to update all my personal information for the banks I don’t have money in, and some of them that I do, I can hardly wait [...]

Jeff Dray is back from his latest journey into the IT jungles and he’s come back with yet another classification list. This time he’s identified the seven most dangerous types of network administrators. Are you among the most notorious of this species?
Beware: The seven most dangerous types of network administrators
As with any of the working [...]

“Computer Rage,” Human Error, and Natural Disasters are behind Top Worldwide
Data Recovery Requests
MINNEAPOLIS - Nov. 10, 2004 - Ontrack Data Recovery has unveiled its annual
Top Ten list of the strangest and funniest computer mishaps. The global poll
of Ontrack’s experts uncovered the best examples of bizarre data
disappearances taken from the thousands of recovery jobs Ontrack processed
this [...]

Computerworld sends out a daily humorous e-mail about peoples’ misadventures in computer support. Some are mildly amusing, some outrageously hilarious.
Today’s was hilarious, and it ties in to computer gaming, so I thought I’d share it with you all…