Funny

Some time ago Oscar van Tol and I started creating video content for the community. We call them #Betatalks and create them because of two very important reasons: We believe in sharing knowledge It’s. So. Much. Fun. 🤣 We talk about a lot of developer stuff: from “Microsoft Build 2019 Highlights” in episode 1 to “C# 8, What’s new?” in episode 4. The most recent #Betatalks is episode 5: “All about configuration in Azure”.

We all know the “Get a Mac” videos from Apple. And to be honest, they’re pretty funny sometimes. Most of the time… 😉 After a horrible start with the Seinfeld commercials (no offence Jerry), Microsoft might be on to something with their new campain “I’m a PC” (Seinfeld commercials to be found there, too). They got an actor that looks like the PC guy in the Get a Mac commercials and used him to introduce some new videos, telling us how many different kind of PC’s there are.

I installed iTunes 8 on our laptop, and connected an iPod to check if all worked accordingly. The iTunes was installed in Dutch, so the displayed information was also. Apparently, when you’re Dutch, you get some extra capacity on your iPod, free of charge!  iTunes displayed the free space on the iPod as being ‘Gratis’, the Dutch word for when you don’t have to pay for stuff. Because free in English means both ’not occupied’ and ‘for free’, the wrong one seems to have been translated into Dutch here…

This weekend we got back from a skiing trip we went on with the school my girlfriend works at. We had a great time! The kids were great, and so were the teachers and the Huski people who were there to teach the kids how to ski and snowboard. If they need an extra pair of hands next year, I hope they’ll consider me: I’d be happy to join them.{.}

A Dutch web site, made in SharePoint, uses a specific ActiveX. Only the name of that control is not really specific:   The MSDN forums haven’t been available the last couple of hours. The message isn’t so pretty:

Have a look at this articleat Worse Than Failure. That’s pretty funny. Or actually, pretty scary… 😐 Oh and, by the way, the Rick in the article is not me ;).

Today I received a mail from Microsoft with an invitation for an Expert session. As you can see, sometimes even the experts at Microsoft let a glitch through…

Read on my favourite forum today, in someone’s signature: In a perfect world… spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penisses, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship.