The Best of Verity Stob: Highlights of Verity Stob’s Famous Columns From EXE, Dr. Dobb’s Journal, and The Register

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
How Friendly Is Your Software?....Pages 2-4
The Programmers’ Guide to Programmers....Pages 5-7
Larn Yasel Programmin!....Pages 8-10
POET’S Day....Pages 11-13
The Maltese Modem....Pages 14-16
Late One Night....Pages 17-18
The Kraken Sleeps....Pages 19-20
Twenty Things (Almost) You Didn’t Know .......Pages 21-23
Few Lend (but Fools)....Pages 24-25
The Best Improve with Age....Pages 26-27
STOB versus the Software Engineers....Pages 28-31
Auntie Verity’s Hardware Help....Pages 32-34
Underground Liff....Pages 35-37
The Games We Play....Pages 38-39
A Chance to Meet You....Pages 40-41
Wot Any Bule Kno....Pages 42-43
About .......Pages 44-46
Not Fairies’ Footfalls....Pages 47-49
FLGMJLLGHQ....Pages 50-51
In Glorious Verity Vision....Pages 52-54
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
I Want to Die....Pages 56-58
Dear Bill....Pages 59-61
Modem Tales....Pages 62-64
Around and Around....Pages 65-66
Four Yorkshiremen....Pages 67-70
Email and Femail....Pages 71-74
Morse Code....Pages 75-76
I Prefer Tea....Pages 77-79
Junior Makes Three....Pages 80-82
Don’t Look Back....Pages 83-86
Book of Anders....Pages 87-90
The Black Eye of the Little Blue Techie....Pages 91-94
Mr. Jobs Works Next Door....Pages 95-98
Quality Street....Pages 99-101
You May Start....Pages 102-105
8086 and All That....Pages 106-109
The Browser....Pages 110-112
Park Gates....Pages 113-115
Et Tu Gnome?....Pages 116-119
Let’s Parler Y2K!....Pages 120-122
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
Yocam Hokum....Pages 123-126
Bye Bye Byte....Pages 127-130
Night Mail....Pages 131-132
 Cringing for Bobot or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About the Quality of My Work and Just Made Dreary TV Programmes Instead....Pages 133-135
One Nostril Hair, 17mm, Grey....Pages 136-139
The Dog’s Breakfast....Pages 140-142
Book of Yoc-am (Contd.)....Pages 143-146
Fair Play....Pages 147-150
By Other Means....Pages 151-153
Waltz$....Pages 154-156
Thirteen Ways to Loathe VB....Pages 157-160
Claire’s Story and Other Tragedies....Pages 161-163
Down the Pole....Pages 164-166
Out to Lunch....Pages 167-170
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Two by Two....Pages 172-175
Big Iron Age Man....Pages 176-179
Just William....Pages 180-184
Downwards and Backwards with Dotdotdot....Pages 185-187
Up with the Joneses....Pages 188-193
Wherever He Goes....Pages 194-196
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
The Devil’s Netiquette....Pages 197-200
At the Tomb of the IUnknown Interface....Pages 201-205
Double Plus Good?....Pages 206-210
I Know This, It’s Unix....Pages 211-213
Your Call Is Important to Us....Pages 214-215
Way After 1984....Pages 216-219
Patter Song....Pages 220-223
Roger D. Hubris Ate My Hamster....Pages 224-227
State of Decay....Pages 228-232
In Memoriam—Edsger Dijkstra, 1930–2002....Pages 233-233
Open Saucery....Pages 234-237
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Process....Pages 238-240
Fragments from a New Finnish Epic....Pages 241-244
Stoblog....Pages 245-247
We Don’t Guarantee That Using The Latest .NET XML Windows API Feature Can Metaphorically Speaking Put Bounce In Your Boobs And/Or Hairs On Your Chest (Delete As Applicable) But By Golly We Find It Extremely Hard To Imagine Circumstances Under Which This Will Not Follow As Naturally As Night Follows Day....Pages 248-251
Soundtrack....Pages 252-255
Damnation Without Relief....Pages 256-258
Cold Comfort Server Farm....Pages 259-262
ForgeAhead....Pages 263-266
One After 409....Pages 267-269
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Jam Today....Pages 270-274
Borland Revelations....Pages 275-278
Patenting by Numbers....Pages 279-285
Confessions of a Spammer....Pages 286-293
Front Matter....Pages 295-295
Solder Cellar—Kindly Accept Substitutes....Pages 296-298
Lara’s Last Stand?....Pages 299-300
Too Obscure or Rude....Pages 301-304
Back Matter....Pages 305-316