Yikes!
15Minutes, Website October 29th, 2003 |Oh my lord — I’ve been slashdotted.
I have literally hundreds of messages in my e-mail inbox. I’ll pop my head up as soon as I can.
In the meantime, I think I need to put Sheep on Drugs’ ‘15 Minutes of Fame’ on repeat.
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October 29th, 2003 at 9:52 am
Have to say though your server seems to be doing quite well considering the /. effect. Most of the time by the time I see the post there the linked site has long been down. Anyway I hope you find a good job soon, and that you won’t have a million-dollar bill for your bandwidth costs.
October 29th, 2003 at 9:56 am
Yeah, I am impressed by your hosting account. Good Luck.
‘Part of the bandwidth problem. Not the solution.’
October 29th, 2003 at 10:19 am
Glad to see your site isn’t down after that mention on the slashdot
I especially liked it when they put the mention that Microsoft is not yet the government. I hope you’ll find a great job soon and one where your boss can’t just fire you over a blog entry 
We care, y’see.
Bestest of Luck coming from Switzerland! ^_^
October 29th, 2003 at 10:35 am
I’m impressed that this place is still up and running. Not that impressed, considering that the server seems to be running Linux and Apache. An IIS server woulda been down hours ago.
Anyway, sorry to hear about your troubles. I’m sure that with all the publicity you should be getting some donations or an offer somewhere. Good luck!
October 29th, 2003 at 10:44 am
Since he is using MovableType his pages are rendered as HTML. The servers aren’t having to server database and PHP. Otherwise even linux and apache might have trouble. I have had trouble on big news days on my news server at work.
October 29th, 2003 at 11:14 am
Just so you know, Wudi. Christoph wasn’t the only one to submit to /. He had a better hook line, though.
cps42 Here are your recent submissions to Slashdot, and their status within the system:
October 29th, 2003 at 12:34 pm
Fight the power baby! (oh, and by the way, the proper spelling – and pronunciation – is “schwag”)
October 29th, 2003 at 12:36 pm
Hey, you even made it to the top of blogdex!
October 29th, 2003 at 1:30 pm
I was so freaking amazed while reading slashdot this afternoon, both because of the fact that you were on it and what microsoft has done. Sadly, all I can do is say that I support you in any way I can.
October 29th, 2003 at 3:04 pm
Hey!
Heard your story on the macintosh community on livejournal.
Have you considered appying at Apple?
Reading your story, one gets the distinct feeling of a CIA agent being expelled from the Pentagon in the 1950s after saying that communism isn’t as bad as they would ahve us believe!
Good luck with your searching!
Michel
October 29th, 2003 at 3:12 pm
I find it highly dubious that Microsoft sacked this guy purely on the basis that he posted a photograph of some G5’s arriving at Redmond. Perhaps it’s more likely that one of his bosses came across this site and saw that our famed hero here was spending MUCH more time posting articles on his weblog than actually doing work??
Just my 2 cents…
October 29th, 2003 at 5:37 pm
15 mins of fame is a top quality song!! Was in rotation for a month or so at a club I go to regularly but most people have never heard of it!!!!
Top Quality Listening!!!!!!11
October 29th, 2003 at 5:49 pm
hey… how about an ‘update’ post to perhaps stave off the email flood a bit?
hope all is well in the emerald city with you today. laters babycakes…
October 29th, 2003 at 5:54 pm
Holy, that’s crazy!!!
October 29th, 2003 at 6:21 pm
onward with your 15 minutes of fame…
I was looking for information on the solar storm that’s hitting the earth right now - classified as a ‘G5’ level storm - and typed in G5 into the Google news search.
First on the list - Microsoft fires employee over G5 photos, blog from the Mac News Network.
Damn!
Please take heed of the fact that your blog is getting a LOT of attention right now. People are going to nitpick your word and phrase choice very closely. I won’t say ‘watch what you say’ but I will say, ‘be wary of your word choice and phrasing.’ The last thing you need is to be the Steve Bartman of the geek world.
October 29th, 2003 at 6:47 pm
Fifteen minutes of fame
Another major followup post, answering questions about my experiences over the past couple days — Slashdotting and all!
October 29th, 2003 at 10:37 pm
Congrats!
October 30th, 2003 at 6:44 am
Microsoft Displays True Colors At Home Just Before the PDC
Getting fired sucks, but getting fired from Microsoft because of blogging about Macs at Microsoft will get you slashdotted and that adds new dimensions to the whole experience. For Michael Hanscom this post, Even Microsoft wants G5s” href=”http://www.m…
October 31st, 2003 at 9:20 am
From an occasional reader - sorry about your being let go. What a bummer. You are handling it with good balance and maturity in your writing, which can only serve you well in life. Good luck finding your next job.
November 3rd, 2003 at 7:19 am
Good luck guy, I hope everything works out….I found out about the whole deal through /. Personally my respect for microsoft is less and less every day. Now given this, they are just being bullies.
all the best.
insideCAP
November 30th, 2003 at 7:17 am
You had me at “Microsoft fired me”. Now I see you like Sheep on Drugs as well. That settles it. Will you have my baby?
November 30th, 2003 at 10:51 am
As flattering as that is, barring some rather serious advances in medical technology, I’m afraid I’m going to have to decline.
December 9th, 2003 at 7:17 am
Best wishes from ARUBA!!!
go to COOLARUBA.COM
January 3rd, 2004 at 11:00 pm
I was just wanted to ask if you had a very Merry Christmas / Holiday, and to wish you the very best for the New Year. BTW, In saw something on another blog site I think it is a good idea to let as many people / bloggers know about. I was just organizing my vacation for later this year and stumbled across the above web site about Bali, where I was considering going. But just read what it says there and especially between the lines; unreal. A travel agent there Bali Discovery Tours of Sanur went to their friend the police chief and made trouble for someone visiting the island who had caught this travel agent offering unauthorized room rates on the Internet for the Hotel Santika Beach in Kuta, which is where I was going to stay, but thank God I am not now (I am not even going to Bali becuase of this) - seems to me like the hotel did not exactly help! The poor guy was detained by the police for 4 days and had his passport illegally seized. He was not released until the British Embassy filed a formal complaint. Of course, there were no charges!! This is absolutely terrible. Please, please, please, join me in saying “Stuff Bali - I’m going somewhere where they treat people like guests, not enemies”.
February 25th, 2004 at 3:22 pm
Anyway I hope you find a good job soon, and that you won’t have a million-dollar bill for your bandwidth costs.