Shlomi Fish’s Funny Bits

Funny short scale stories I wrote - often just a pageful or two.

Ways to Do It According to the Programming Languages of the World

Take the Perl motto (“There’s more than one way to do it”) and extrapolate it to the other programming languages out there.

IRPWUG Announces Project WYSIWYT

The “International Really Pissed-off Windows Users Group” (IRPWUG) announces the project “What you See is What you Think” (WYSIWYT).

“Spam for Everyone” - the International Campaign for Accessible Spam

Make yourself heard now!

The GPL is not Compatible with Itself

Havoc awaits when a huge problem is discovered in one of the most popular open source licences.

Introducing RMS-Lint

Announcement of a tool to facilitate communication with Richard M. Stallman. See also the Slashdot discussion.

Wonderous are the Ways of Microsoft

How compatible are Windows 3.11, Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0?

“I Like Job Control”

A humorous geek song to the tune of “I Love Rock-N’-Roll”.

“Cracka’s Paradise”

A geek parody of Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise”.

Mastering cat

An interview with me about a new book I’m publishing in O’Reilly about how to master UNIX’s tricky “cat” command.

Programs Every Programmer Has Written

A useful checklist.

COBOL - the New Age Programming Language

The best programming language that ever existed or that can ever exist.

It’s not a Fooware - It’s an Operating System

Software applications which are so comprehensive that they contain (almost) everything.

Announcing Freecell Solver™ Enterprise Edition

You’d better believe it…

Collections of Facts

Starting from the meme of Chuck Norris facts and continuing to other people or things.