Category Archives: WTF

Open letter to the Chinese blogger stealing my work…

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Filed under WTF

Dear Sir/Madam:

Thank you for taking the time to read through my posts and link to them. Unfortunately, you have managed to offend me. Instead of linking to my post and providing a summary like most considerate bloggers would, you have chosen to copy the article in whole, download my sample code and republish it WITHOUT so much as a single line giving credit to me as the original author. To me, this is unacceptable. Please update your pingbacks to correctly specify me as the author or I’ll be forced to ban you from reading my blog.

Regards,
Carl Sziebert

WTF: Apple ships Leopard without Java 6

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Filed under Apple, Inc., Java, Mac OS X, WTF

Having been a Java developer for the better part of a decade and an Apple fanboy for longer than that, I am left wondering what the hell they were thinking when they decided to not add Java 6 to Leopard. Keeping in mind, of course, that Apple has been notoriously bad about updating Java for OS X, the release of Leopard took just over 2 years to complete. They couldn’t find the time to get it done? Read More »

I hate blogs.

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Filed under WTF

Okay, it’s not that I hate blogs, I just don’t care for what people are writing in them. In my not-so-humble opinion, most of it is self-serving biographical drivel. I don’t want to read about what you had for dinner or how your cat craps in those cute little balls. Read More »