Comments on: Microsoft, now copying tag lines http://gigaom.com/2005/09/11/microsoft-now-copying-tag-lines/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:32:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Rob http://gigaom.com/2005/09/11/microsoft-now-copying-tag-lines/#comment-107566 Fri, 20 Jan 2006 07:39:55 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/09/11/microsoft-now-copying-tag-lines/#comment-107566 Foofy, use Link Truncator plugin instead:

http://minglewithingle.com/archives/2005/06/24/link-truncator-v05/

]]> By: Foofy http://gigaom.com/2005/09/11/microsoft-now-copying-tag-lines/#comment-107565 Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:02:35 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/09/11/microsoft-now-copying-tag-lines/#comment-107565 Sorry for that, Gabe. The links were breaking the page in IE and Firefox because they don’t use / as a break like they are supposed to. I thought WordPress allowed HTML in comments, but apparently it doesn’t, which is why it was using the shortened version. :(

]]> By: Pete http://gigaom.com/2005/09/11/microsoft-now-copying-tag-lines/#comment-107564 Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:28:47 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/09/11/microsoft-now-copying-tag-lines/#comment-107564 Possibly a contraction of:
“Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch-type has to do with writing poetry.” – Ted Nelson, The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design, 1990

]]> By: Adam Messinger http://gigaom.com/2005/09/11/microsoft-now-copying-tag-lines/#comment-107563 Mon, 12 Sep 2005 07:14:40 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/09/11/microsoft-now-copying-tag-lines/#comment-107563 Gabe: Try http://www.snipurl.com to shorten long URLs. I use it a lot for blog posts, and for e-mail to keep links from getting broken by line-wrapping.

]]> By: Gabe http://gigaom.com/2005/09/11/microsoft-now-copying-tag-lines/#comment-107562 Sun, 11 Sep 2005 23:32:22 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/09/11/microsoft-now-copying-tag-lines/#comment-107562 Just wanted to note that *someone* edited my comment to shorten the links, but in the process destroyed them. Sorry that they made the screen very wide, but, well, they also conveyed some useful info.

]]> By: Gabe http://gigaom.com/2005/09/11/microsoft-now-copying-tag-lines/#comment-107561 Sun, 11 Sep 2005 22:12:55 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/09/11/microsoft-now-copying-tag-lines/#comment-107561 Nathan: exactly.

Om: sorry:

“code IS poetry; poetry IS code! ”
— comp.os.linux.misc post, 1996
http://tinyurl.com/93k33

“Linus is a code poet, Bill Gates is a bean counter”
— comp.os.linux.development post, 1994
http://tinyurl.com/83ps6

]]> By: Nathan http://gigaom.com/2005/09/11/microsoft-now-copying-tag-lines/#comment-107560 Sun, 11 Sep 2005 21:04:43 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/09/11/microsoft-now-copying-tag-lines/#comment-107560 ‘code is poetry’ is a turn of phrase that goes back years and years. I’m guessing 82 or so??? I’m not sure where it originated but it certainly wasn’t WordPress unless they’ve been around for 20 years.

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