Verity Stob is the comedienne of the programming world. She has been writing satirical chronicles of techie life since 1988. Her column first appeared in the legendary .EXE Magazine, then Dr. Dobbs' Journal, and it now graces The Register.
For the first time, the very best of Stob's columns have been collected into one essential book. Discover why Mrs. Bill Gates calls in a programmer to fix her plumbing; find out about the Google computer that suffers from Tourette's syndrome; discover the shameful secret of the CEO who types his correspondence in CAPITAL LETTERS, and much, much more!
Table of Contents
How Friendly Is Your Software? The Programmers Guide to Programmers Larn Yasel Programmin! POETS Day The Maltese Modem Late One Night The Kraken Sleeps Twenty Things (Almost) You Didnt Know Few Lend (but Fools) The Best Improve with Age STOB versus the Software Engineers Auntie Veritys Hardware Help Underground Liff The Games We Play A Chance to Meet You Wot Any Bule Kno About Not Fairies Footfalls FLGMJLLGHQ In Glorious VerityVision I Want to Die Dear Bill Modem Tales Around and Around Four Yorkshiremen Email and Femail Morse Code I Prefer Tea Junior Makes Three Dont Look Back Book of Anders The Black Eye of the Little Blue Techie Mr. Jobs Works Next Door Quality Street You May Start 8086 and All That The Browser Park Gates Et Tu Gnome? Lets Parler Y2K! Yocam Hokum Bye Bye Byte Night Mail Cringing for Bobot or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About the Quality of My Work and Just Made Dreary TV Programmes Instead One Nostril Hair, 17mm, Grey The Dogs Breakfast Book of Yoc-am (Cont'd.) Fair Play By Other Means Waltz$ Thirteen Ways to Loathe VB Claires Story and Other Tragedies Down the Pole Out to Lunch Two by Two Big Iron Age Man Just William Downwards and Backwards with Dotdotdot Up with the Joneses Wherever He Goes The Devils Netiquette At the Tomb of the IUnknown Interface Double Plus Good? I Know This, Its Unix Your Call Is Important to Us Way After 1984 Patter Song Roger D. Hubris Ate My Hamster Stat...
