I really do not like that this website starts to look like an obituary list but this one cannot go unmentioned. Dennis Ritchie (also known with his username dmr) has exited the world with exit code 0. If you do not know who he is first of all shame on you and second you have probably heard of a certain programming language called C. How about an operating system called Unix? He created them.

   This morning I felt a great disturbance in the Internet. As it turned out Steve Jobs decided to become one with the Internet. If you do not think he is a hero of our time you have not seen Pirates of Silicon Valley enough times. Stop what you are doing right now and go watch it. If at first you do not succeed and end up thinking the main characters are thieves, salesmen or something similar watch it again until you get truly excited about what they did. If you work in the IT industry and do not think Steve Jobs is a hero you failed, period.

   If I create my own company one day I will ask questions about the times when Steve Jobs changed the world when hiring. The interviewee will not be judged by the historical accuracy of his answers but by the level of excitement and awe he shows.

   Steve Jobs is so powerful that since he became one with the Internet I feel a desire to buy an iPad and an iPhone.

   I almost forgot that today is the 256th day of the year which means that it is Programmers' Day. Happy holiday to everyone cranking code!

   I almost forgot because of all the excitement around BUILD. Be sure not to miss the live stream tonight (it should appear on the site) and learn about the future of Windows. A nice day for a big dev conference. Good job Microsoft!

   I believe every developer has been in a situation where the software behaves in a way that just cannot be.  Every developer has applied fixes that do not make sense and he had no idea how they worked. Recently I came across the most brutal version of "cannot be" I had ever encountered while working on software...

   As a devoted StarCraft fan I happen to know a bit more about South Korea than the regular European. One of the things I know is that it is very high-tech country. This is why I was surprised to find out that 22% of the Internet users in South Korea today use Internet Explorer 6. This is really big number second only to China. How come this tech savvy nation ends up with such a big usage share of this outdated browser?