Some of my past status messages on My Opera – just because I don't like old messages disappearing when replaced, and thought some of them were good enough to keep somewhere.. This blog post is "somewhere". Reverse chronological order.
- Rich text is just plain text with more money
- Those who do not invent wheels are stuck re-inventing them
- work·ing group [wur-king groop] -noun. 1. The intersection of web technology and religion
- Never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by deadlines.
- It can be much harder to figure out why something works than why something is broken.
Feel free to improve on or re-use them 🙂
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Good idea! I noticed you had some good ones up and I'm glad you saved them :up:Cheers!
Rich text is for people with plain ideas.
SELECT `script` as new_status FROM funny_scripts WHERE already_used != 1
wish coming up with a good and funny status message was that easy 🙂
what about this one?When I grow up, I want to be a social engineer
I run a school of social engineering.To apply, just send me all of your personal data and credit card info.
@hallvors,if you need help with selecting a status…just PM my 'cause i've got a bucket load of them 🙂 (I have a different status each day on my IM accounts 🙂 )Free Sample
shadow.addEventListener("work",function(){ if(boss.satisfied!=true){ return electric.shock(); }else{ return electric.shock(); } },false);It might need some global vars 🙂 and it might not even work…but it looks and sounds good 😉
Perfection is easy if you get to define "perfect"
nice onesMy friend came up with this one:Enter a status message here
We should only break the web if it makes it less broken
"Rushing is at the root of all lack of quality" – Peter Calthorpe, architect
letters, numbers, and symbols go hereI came up with this one being nowhere near a computer it is for when I sleep: z's in progress:)your current one is good
No incompatibility turns down an opportunity for causing havoc on a major website.How do you like your time, killed or saved?The problem with making a web browser is that you must eat the dog food of every web developer on the planet.
does the dog food have different flavors?
More flavours than you can imagine!PS.. for any readers who do not get the "dog food" phrase, look at Wikipedia's definition of "eating one's own dog food.
the slowest way to learn from other people's mistakes is to debug softwareweb compatibility is all about being uglybtw, @d4n3 – your "school of social engineering" line above still makes me smile every time. A born classic 🙂
Achievement is noise, failure is signalAll sufficiently advanced simplicity is undistinguishable from complexity
Pain is part of the body's user interface. As always, security-related UI is there to annoy you.Be careful when paving cowpaths, the cows might not like it