The very best of Dilbert
1.Life is a waste of time; time is a waste of life, so get wasted all of the time and have the time of your life.
2.If you are good, you will be assigned all the work. If you are really good, you will get out of it.
3.Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience.
4.Eat one live toad first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day.
5.If it wasn't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
6.I can only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow is not looking good either.
7.Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
8.Accept that some days you are the pigeon and some days the statue.
9.Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If he isn't there the first time, chances are you won't be needing him again.
10,I don't have an attitude problem, you have a perception problem.
11.You are slower than a herd of turtles stampeding through peanut butter
12.Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
13.A pat on the back is only a few centimetres from a kick in the butt.
14.Don't be irreplaceable - if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
15.If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.
16.To err is human, to forgive is not our policy.
17.Following the rules will not get the job done. Getting the job done is no excuse for not following the rules
18.Only the mediocre are at their best all the time
19.There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
20.When everything is coming your way......you're in the wrong lane.

Cute animal pics
www.speedysigns.com/decals/ CARTOONS_Animals.asp

www.french.about.com

"Sometimes it pays to stay in bed in Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debuging Monday's code." - Dan Salomon

"You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem." - Edwards' Law

"1. Out of clutter, find simplicity. 2. From discord, find harmony. 3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." -- Albert Einstein, three rules of work

"Theory and Practice are the same... in Theory" - Unknown (but taken from Scott Daniels of OGI)

"A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams

"More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity." - W.A. Wulf

"There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns."
- Donald Rumsfeld
(got totally lost when i read that )

"The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all."
-- Edward de Bono

"Leadership requires great courage. It is tough to leave the gravitational pull of the crowd around us. It is tough to take the road less traveled when everyone urges you to be like everyone else. It is tough to create your life on your own terms when others are telling you how your life should be created. But nothing will fill your heart with a greater sense of regret than laying on your deathbed knowing that you did not live your life and do your dreams."
Robin Sharma

Browser war story, but with more hostoric details
http://news.com.com/2009-1032-995681.html?tag=toc

MICROSOFT
Today, Microsoft continues to dominate the PC software industry, holding more than $52 billion in cash and short-term investments despite the stagnation in high-tech spending. This, analysts say, points to the Redmond, Wash., giant's ultimate success--the preservation of its leadership status and a formidable war chest to fend off any threat to the Windows empire, whether it be Web browsers, Java, Linux or any other technology

.NET - Java done right

"Programming is the manipulation of complex abstractions"

MSDN
Who says MSDN is for geeks only ... find how to read the balance sheet of a company here