Jeff Atwood’s Coding Horror blog is one of the best on the internet. If you’re a software geek, developer, techie, or anything close, you have to put his feed in your aggregator.

Recently, Jeff made a post about DRM-Free Music. Like all his posts, it’s a great read. But that’s not what I wanted to write about.

What I wanted to mention was this nugget from Jeff that had me laughing:

I’m sure that the moment man discovered fire, there was some guy nearby saying, “Too smoky. Can burn you. Lame.”

I laughed because, regardless of context, this is so true. There are people in this world who can manage to see the negative in everything. And from now on, when I run into those people, I’m going to recall this phrase that has stuck in my head.

And I’m going to smile

Thanks Jeff.

Jeff Atwood’s Coding Horror blog is one of the best on the internet. If you’re a software geek, developer, techie, or anything close, you have to put his feed in your aggregator.

Recently, Jeff made a post about DRM-Free Music. Like all his posts, it’s a great read. But that’s not what I wanted to write about.

What I wanted to mention was this nugget from Jeff that had me laughing:

I’m sure that the moment man discovered fire, there was some guy nearby saying, “Too smoky. Can burn you. Lame.”

I laughed because, regardless of context, this is so true. There are people in this world who can manage to see the negative in everything. And from now on, when I run into those people, I’m going to recall this phrase that has stuck in my head.

And I’m going to smile

Thanks Jeff.