Brian Di Croce

Passionate about developing and delivering better software with .NET

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For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. (Matthew 5:46-48, NIV)

Archive for Humor/Funny

Apr
25
2008

I was cleaning my Gmail inbox this afternoon, and I stumbled upon a few old emails. One of them was sent to me by my wife and it includes some funny pictures of (apparently real) math and physics homework answers. To all you students who are about to begin your Summer vacation…enjoy!

Mar
30
2008

Mar
13
2008

I was reminded, after looking at some pictures of last year’s Christmas party at my parents, that as a software developer, I’m much, much better at handling exceptions than handling babies…Meet my little nephew, Xander (the one in the Santa suit in case you were wondering), who might start programming with .NET v7.5, F# and […]

Mar
11
2008

I received the following error message from Visual Studio after failing to load a solution file.

So there I am, sitting in front my monitor, thinking how small of a creature I am in this endless universe.  I’m also thinking of everything that was going on in the world as I was wasting […]

Mar
3
2008

This is a very interesting article published by The Daily Telegraph.  Depending on which part of the brain you use the most, the left part of the brain or the right part of it, you should see the woman below dancing clockwise or counter-clockwise. 
According to the article, if you see her dancing clockwise, then […]

Feb
17
2008

My wife has a lot of family members living in the country in New Brunswick, Canada.  One of them sent her this funny illustration of what they seem to understand every time I go down there and tell them about my job with technology. 

 

Feb
11
2008

When Visual Studio updates its MSDN documentation to "reflect your recent changes", it throws a dialog box right in your face asking you to wait (or waste) several minutes.  Now I must say that there are some things in life that I accept without much stress, difficulty, and impatience; such as forgetting my wallet at […]

Jan
27
2008

At the end of the interview with Dick Gabriel (Episode #84 of the Software Engineering Radio), the host surprises us with the funniest song in software development to date IMHO…’God Wrote In LISP‘. Software development with se-radio.net…I’m loving it!
Here are the lyrics to the song (from the Laugh along with GNU page of the GNU […]

Jan
2
2008

I took some time this morning to read two simple, funny and excellent articles, which I’d highly recommend if you have a couple of minutes to spear. Both articles are written by different authors, but they both converge to the same principles and ideas which I believe in my heart should never be forgotten: “By […]