Somewhere in fall of 2000 I wasted ten minutes and cut-and-pasted together an image showing some of the other ways that Microsoft's Clippy might like to help you. I figure this thing cost the world quite a bit of productivity as it wandered through various corporate email systems. And I admit to taking some pride in that.

At one point it was a Slashdot Quickie. It also seems to have inspired a cartoon strip. These days it's mostly been seen in the company of similar spoofs usually titled, Things you wish your computer had.

My father is still confused at having raised an engineer but I think he's slightly mollified by the fact that I occasionally bang out a few pieces of mostly sarcasm, and post them here. I think I like CorpTrek the best.

I once had a, well, challenging time getting Toshiba and its minions to replace a brand-new defective laptop. In fact it took seven weeks of me harranguing them. This is that story. I still need to update this site with some of the entertaining email I received. It's only been recently resurrected (I accidentally nuked it) so I hope to add a bit to it soon.