Comments on: AmIEvilOrNot.com http://www.magpiebrain.com/blog/2004/04/06/amievilornotcom/ Sam Newman's blog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:24:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Sam Newman http://www.magpiebrain.com/blog/2004/04/06/amievilornotcom/#comment-276 Sam Newman Wed, 07 Apr 2004 09:22:49 +0000 http://www.magpiebrain.com/2004/04/06/amievilornotcom/#comment-276 Yowser - that is a coincidence indeed! The inspriation came jointy from those "Whose Hot and Whose Not lists" you find in the gutter celebrity press, the series of (sometimes) bile spewing articles "Why X is Evil" by Allen Holub (http://www.google.com/search?q=Allen+Holub+why+evil&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8) and a realisation that we may be entering a second wave of potential madness with the current market boom. Yowser - that is a coincidence indeed! The inspriation came jointy from those “Whose Hot and Whose Not lists” you find in the gutter celebrity press, the series of (sometimes) bile spewing articles “Why X is Evil” by Allen Holub (http://www.google.com/search?q=Allen+Holub+why+evil&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&IE=utf-8&oe=utf-8) and a realisation that we may be entering a second wave of potential madness with the current market boom.

]]> By: Doug http://www.magpiebrain.com/blog/2004/04/06/amievilornotcom/#comment-275 Doug Tue, 06 Apr 2004 18:53:53 +0000 http://www.magpiebrain.com/2004/04/06/amievilornotcom/#comment-275 If this was inspired by Russell Beattie's posting http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1007374.html then RealPlayer should have been listed somewhere in there. If it wasn't inspired by Russ, it's an amusing synchronicity. If this was inspired by Russell Beattie’s posting http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1007374.html then RealPlayer should have been listed somewhere in there.

If it wasn’t inspired by Russ, it’s an amusing synchronicity.

]]> By: Sam Newman http://www.magpiebrain.com/blog/2004/04/06/amievilornotcom/#comment-274 Sam Newman Tue, 06 Apr 2004 14:32:02 +0000 http://www.magpiebrain.com/2004/04/06/amievilornotcom/#comment-274 Erm, definately not Evil I think. Erm, definately not Evil I think.

]]> By: Simon Brunning http://www.magpiebrain.com/blog/2004/04/06/amievilornotcom/#comment-273 Simon Brunning Tue, 06 Apr 2004 13:40:38 +0000 http://www.magpiebrain.com/2004/04/06/amievilornotcom/#comment-273 REs? Evil or Not Evil? Mine are Not Evil, everyone else's are Evil. ;-) REs? Evil or Not Evil? Mine are Not Evil, everyone else’s are Evil. ;-)

]]> By: Sam Newman http://www.magpiebrain.com/blog/2004/04/06/amievilornotcom/#comment-272 Sam Newman Tue, 06 Apr 2004 13:05:33 +0000 http://www.magpiebrain.com/2004/04/06/amievilornotcom/#comment-272 Gah! I forgot regular expressions too... Gah! I forgot regular expressions too…

]]> By: Simon Brunning http://www.magpiebrain.com/blog/2004/04/06/amievilornotcom/#comment-271 Simon Brunning Tue, 06 Apr 2004 12:53:32 +0000 http://www.magpiebrain.com/2004/04/06/amievilornotcom/#comment-271 Oh, and you can move Lotus Notes from pending to evil, too. ;-) Oh, and you can move Lotus Notes from pending to evil, too. ;-)

]]> By: Simon Brunning http://www.magpiebrain.com/blog/2004/04/06/amievilornotcom/#comment-270 Simon Brunning Tue, 06 Apr 2004 12:32:56 +0000 http://www.magpiebrain.com/2004/04/06/amievilornotcom/#comment-270 Evil list additions: * The 'new' keyword. (Outside of factories and the like, that is.) * Perl. * RPG IV. * Trigonometry. * COMEFROMs. Not evil list amendment: * Scripting Languages *except* *Perl*. * Categorising people as Dwarves, Elves, Pirates or *Ninja*. (Bit of pedantry, there.) Pending list addition: * Gmail. Evil list additions:
* The ‘new’ keyword. (Outside of factories and the like, that is.)
* Perl.
* RPG IV.
* Trigonometry.
* COMEFROMs.

Not evil list amendment:
* Scripting Languages *except* *Perl*.
* Categorising people as Dwarves, Elves, Pirates or *Ninja*. (Bit of pedantry, there.)

Pending list addition:
* Gmail.

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