As some of you may know, I use Vanilla to run one of my websites. Today it occurred to me there was no way to share cool discussions on Facebook, I looked around and found no one had developed an extension for this. So I made my own and I’m sharing it with the world.
You can go check it out at the vanilla extension repository.
Or download it from here.
(Inspired by a conversation I was having last night)
11. You get invited to more lan parties than actual parties
10. When you are telling a friend about a girl you just met and they answer “in other words, you are a hacker, you went past the bitch firewall” (Hi Jonathan!)
9. When you want to make an adium plugin to insert buzzwords into conversations to make you look cool (Jonathan, you there my friend?)
8. You get as excited about starting a new application as when you start dating someone
7. You recently stopped using a digital watch
6. You still use a digital watch
5. You buy more gadgets than clothes in a year
4. You want an iPhone
3. You own an iPhone
2. You have a blog
1. You understand, and actively use buzzwords like web 2.0, ajax, podcasts, rss, etc…
if you my friend are identified by more than 5 items of this list… welcome to the club haha
There is some stuff that will ultimately piss you off when you’re in the IT business, and a geek as myself. People tend to think you know it all because “that’s what you do”. This is a tipical conversation from someone who barely knows you:
Them: “Hey, how do I make a macro in excel that i can edit myself and… (its all bla bla from here) bla bla bla bla bla…? ”
Me: “Uh what? I have no idea…”
Them: “But didn’t you go and study (insert IT-related career name here, in my case Software Engineering)?”
Me: “Well I’m sorry but I seem to have failed my Office I, Office II, and Office III courses”
WTF?, srsly, NO I DID NOT GET TAUGHT EVERYTHING THERE IS IN THE SOFTWARE UNIVERSE, and I couldn’t care less about it either.
So with no more preamble, here is the ultimate “Perks of being a Geek” list:
1. You will always get a call from a family member asking a random Windows-related problem they are having.
2. You are supposed to have the answer to item #1 with the following problem description: “It locked up.”
3. Family friends are supposed to get free tech support 24/7. You won’t get paid more than the occasional soda or cookie while making the house call.
4. You are THE ms office guru.
5. Web designer = FREE WEBSITES FOR ALL
6. You become tech support not only for their PC but also their ISP, cable company, microwave oven, remote controls, surround sound systems, digital watches, lamps and all sorts of electrical installations
7. You are expected to know where everything is located in every existing piece of software by hard
I’m sure I’m missing a lot of other perks… I’ll be adding more along the way =)
The folks at http://musicovery.com/ have got it right. I must say I am quite impressed. Basically, they’re an online webradio which finds music for you according to your mood and genres. The mood feature is really quite nice and hits the spot, not to mention they do have an amazing music selection.
Now this is a service I wouldn’t mind paying $4 a month for a premium account (gives you higher radio quality).
Max has more than 10 years experience in Linux Servers.
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