HippyCentral

An unfailingly polite lady called to ask for help with a Windows installation that had gone terribly wrong.
Customer: “I brought my Windows disks from work to install them on my home computer.”
Training stresses that we are “not the Software Police,” so I let the little act of piracy slide.
Tech Support: “Umm-hmm. What happened?”
Customer: “As [...]

Spotted on someone’s signature on a forum:

Teehee!

Not something I’m good at. I generally move on to making the next toy before I think about telling anyone about the ones I’ve just done.
Still, as it looks like I’m facing redundancy - yeah, less than a year into the job, don’t ask - I figure I need to get some kinda proof of [...]

This really clever person (who happens to have only just finished school) made a web-based SL client.
As I have a lotta respect for anyone who has the patience to wade through the mess that is libSL (read OOP heavy c# and no docs/time to help strangers), I attempted to congratulate her. Unfortunately the system itself [...]

Why bother paying for drugs or alcohol (which are the same thing really) when a simple virus can give you all the same effects?
Yes, the Hippy’s poorly. It’s affecting my balance, so I get a free 10 minute rollercoaster ride after making a coffee.
On the up side, I’ve got everything working on my ‘puter now. [...]

I’ve had a comment about the “too cool for IE” logo at the bottom right. To be honest, I’m not even sure how many non-ie visitors I get.
What do you think? Do you look at this site in a “standards compliant” browser? Do you get to see the little logo? Do you like it?
Answers on [...]