She Who Must Be Obeyed suggested I give up the fruitless pursuit of being St. Pete's Techno Stud so she can convert my server room into more closet space. But I'm having none of it. Who dies with the most hardware wins. For reasons known only to us, we engineering and coding types flock to Monty Python films like cops to doughnut shops. And then we impress each other by reciting complete scenes from these flicks at parties, lunch and anywhere we happen to be.
Stereotypes happen for a reason, perhaps.
After you're done chuckling at the Lego figures acting out scenes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, click the index link at the bottom and continue the guffawing with The Matrix and Desperado. My sides hurt. From time to time, brilliant software catches you off guard, such as this lightweight newsgroup reader for the Mac. It has to be the fastest, most efficient news program on any platform. Newsgroups, for the uninitiated, are global discussion areas from the dark days of the pre-Web Internet.