Simone Tellini » Fun http://tellini.info To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:42:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Screenshot Of The Day http://tellini.info/2010/05/screenshot-of-the-day/ http://tellini.info/2010/05/screenshot-of-the-day/#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 20:18:12 +0000 Simone http://wp.cr.tellini.org/?p=98 Continue reading →]]>
uhm… what should I choose?

This very useful dialog pops up when you aren’t an administrator on Windows 2003, annoying you until you decide that it’s time to reboot. Or find someone that can do it, that is.

I guess it deserves an UI Design Award :D

]]> http://tellini.info/2010/05/screenshot-of-the-day/feed/ 0 Don’t shout at your hard drives! http://tellini.info/2009/01/dont-shout-at-your-hard-drives/ http://tellini.info/2009/01/dont-shout-at-your-hard-drives/#comments Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:47:43 +0000 Simone http://wp.cr.tellini.org/?p=82 It appears that hard drives don’t like it…

It also proves that some sysadmins have far too much time to spare. ;-)

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I always assumed the designers of the Objective-C language and Cocoa frameworks trust me to know what I’m doing while I find very elegant ways to shoot myself in the foot.

– from a mail sent to Cocoa-dev

]]> http://tellini.info/2008/04/quote-of-the-day-4/feed/ 0 Quote of the day http://tellini.info/2007/08/quote-of-the-day/ http://tellini.info/2007/08/quote-of-the-day/#comments Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:56:14 +0000 Simone http://wp.cr.tellini.org/?p=43

Out of the darkness a voice spoke unto me, saying “smile, things could be worse”. So I smiled, and so, things became worse.

(from the signature of an email I’ve just read)

]]> http://tellini.info/2007/08/quote-of-the-day/feed/ 0 Let’s take a swim… http://tellini.info/2007/03/lets-take-a-swim/ http://tellini.info/2007/03/lets-take-a-swim/#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:15:13 +0000 Simone http://wp.cr.tellini.org/?p=26 Google’s sense of humour pops up when trying to use its Maps service to compute some transatlantic routes.

For instance, if you wish to go from Stanford to Stockholm, pay attention at step number 33 ;-)

]]> http://tellini.info/2007/03/lets-take-a-swim/feed/ 0 Mac Beautiful http://tellini.info/2007/01/mac-beautiful/ http://tellini.info/2007/01/mac-beautiful/#comments Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:48:08 +0000 Simone http://wp.cr.tellini.org/?p=14 She’s totally mad! In a positive way, but still mad :-)

There are other videos worth seeing on her site.

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