On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:18:54 -0700, Timothy Knox <t...@thelbane.com> wrote:
> Chapter 1 > 1. In the beginning was the word, and the word was HATE. 2. And the > users looked down upon the Fox of the Fires, and saw that it was > hateful. 3. Thus spake the Dread Prophet Mozilla, "Verily, I say > unto thee, go forth and let the hate multiply, and spread across > the earth and all the lands therein." 4. And the pestilence did > spread, and there was the earth filled with the sounds of weeping, > and of the gnashing of teeth. 5. And the Fox of the Fires rejoiced, > having brought its reign of hatefulness to all the earth. > > Chapter 2 > 1. Now in the land of Seattle, there was a simple programmer of > computers, who used the Fox of the Fires to navigate the waters of > the World Wide Web. 2. And it was the habit of this programmer to > read through the morning's dose of trouble ticket emails, and click > the links to any which he wanted to read further. 3. The clicking > of the links being a signal to the Fox of the Fires to show the > programmer each ticket, in its turn. 4. But lo, there came to pass > a morning where the network of the simple programmer turned into a > notwork, and the Fox of the Fires could not open the links, as > requested. 5. Yea, verily, did it indicate failure, by showing a > Box of Alertness to the simple programmer, and by showing a Tab of > Emptiness within. 6. The programmer went to the Fox of the Fires > and said, "Yea, verily, showeth unto me, in the location bar for > each Tab of Emptiness, the URL I have commanded thee to render." > 7. But the Fox of the Fires laughed at the simple programmer, showing > only emptiness in the location bar, leaving the programmer to attempt > to guess what URL he might have attempted to open. 8. And the air > was rent by the screams of the programmer, and the sounds of monitors, > smashing on the rocks below. 9. And the Fox of the Fires rejoiced, > in having thwarted the simple programmer in his attempt to work > more efficiently, by opening all the tickets first, and then reading > them all in one go. One of the most beautiful hates I ever read. Thank you! -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x, 5.11.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, and 11.31, OpenSuSE 10.3, 11.0, and 11.1, AIX 5.2 and 5.3. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
