OT: Geek boasting points

"Tony Raven" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Last night I am been mostly chatting with Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner.

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Tony

"I did make a mistake once - I thought I'd made a mistake but I hadn't"
Anon

Gosh - and it's not OT, it's all about routes (and routers)...

G.

"Tony Raven" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Last night I am been mostly chatting with Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner.

Hah,
seven years ago, I met Bill Gates in Lisbon (Microsoft flew me there) and I
took £10,000 off him.
Conversation quality was rather poor.

Vernon

vernon said:

Hah,
seven years ago, I met Bill Gates in Lisbon (Microsoft flew me there) and I
took £10,000 off him.

Threatened to spill the beans on his links with Satan, Al Quaeda and the
Secret Cabal That Rules The World?

Jon

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Threatened to spill the beans on his links with Satan, Al Quaeda and the
Secret Cabal That Rules The World?

Nah, I wrote a school website that was judged to be the best entry in the
UK.
Got flown out to Lisbon buisiness class, put up in a £200 per night hotel
along
with other European winners. Had two days at Expo '98 including the award
ceremony and had a pretty good time overall. Fell out with my school when
the management tried to tell me how to spend the money that I had 'earned'
through six months of labour in my own time.

Have refused to write a web site for the school since then. I've been left
alone
since a deputy tried to do web site work and found what a drain on personal
resources it was.

Ironically I won the prize (Microsoft Road Ahead) having only use one
Microsoft
product - the operating system.

vernon said:

Quoted message said:

Threatened to spill the beans on his links with Satan, Al Quaeda and the
Secret Cabal That Rules The World?

Nah, I wrote a school website that was judged to be the best entry in the
UK.

Wrote good website, get to meet Bill? That's like implementing CO2
reductions and getting to meet George Bush...

--
Mark.
http://tranchant.plus.com/

in message <[email hidden]>, Nick Kew

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Mark Tranchant said:

Wrote good website, get to meet Bill? That's like implementing CO2
reductions and getting to meet George Bush...

"Judged to be .."

It's the luvvies who go around awarding prizes for websites.
Geeks just call awards the warning label - it's a sign that
a site is unlikely to work for anyone but the deezyner.

I once got asked - by the Internet Society - to act as 'technical judge'
an international childrens' website competition. Great fun, and some
frighteningly bright kids. And some /very/ good websites (this is the
year I was judge:
<URL:http://www.thinkquest.org/library/winners.html?year=2000&cid=1>😉

However, generally I agree with you. Most web design competitions are
judged by people without the least semblance of a clue.

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[email hidden] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

See one nuclear war, you've seen them all.

dkahn400 said:

As a generalisation that may be a valid point. I think posting it so
closely under Vernon's message, however, is a bit off. :-(

Hmmm, s'pose so. It was the unlikely associations - nothing to do with
any particular site - that brought on the posting.

FWIW I treat "you have won ..." messages as spam.

--
Nick Kew