Joe's Random Ramblings

The SCO Group, a bankrupt Unix vendor which rose to infamy by claiming that Linux infringes on their Intellectual Property (which a court has decided belongs to Linux-vendor Novell in the first place...) became the laughing stock of the computer world earlier this week when they published their latest quarterly newsletter on their website.
The content is so unbelievable that I nearly fell off my chair. I still have laugh attacks every time I see the image
After a day and a half of them being ridiculed for this, they finally removed the newsletter from their website. But of course, the Internet never forgets. Everybody has screenshots
So, without further ado, here it is, SCO's middle finger to their remaining customers:

I cam across a nice satirical piece in the Guardian:

After eight long, tiresome years, President Al Gore won't be missed. Even if he did save the planet.

Oh what could have been...

I was chatting with a friend about Legos and Legoland. I remember being at a Legoland in northern Germany as a child.
When I tried to look up the name of the city this Legoland was in, I was surprised to not find any hint on that on the Legoland website or on Wikipedia. They all only point to the Legoland in Guenzburg, in Bavaria, that was opened just a couple of years back.
Eventually, I did find this link. It says:

Opened in 1973 as Legoland Sierksdorf, the second Legoland after Legoland Billund. After only a few years the park was sold and became Hansaland.

That was the Legoland I went to as a child.
Guess I'll have to update the Wikipedia page about this
Actually, the German Wikipedia page about Legoland had the info already. Just the English Wikipedia page didn't.

2009 has been declared the Year to Celebrate Astronomy.
From http://www.astronomy2009.org/general/:

The International Year of Astronomy 2009 is a global effort initiated by the International Astronomical Union and UNESCO to help the citizens of the world rediscover their place in the Universe through the day- and night-time sky, and thereby engage a personal sense of wonder and discovery.

Every techie and a lot of non-techies by now know about the infamous Zune freeze on New Year's Eve, 2008. It's been all over the news, even on mainstream media.
Somebody has now posted the source code of the bug (thanks to Ars Technica for the pointer.)
It actually was a rather simple endless loop.
I think Microsoft's QA should have caught that.