The Best of Verity Stob: Highlights of Verity Stob's Famous Columns from .EXE, Dr. Dobb's Journal, and The Register [Paperback]

Verity Stob is the comedienne of the programming world. She has been writing satirical chronicles of techie life since 1988. Her column first appeared in the legendary .EXE Magazine, then Dr. Dobbs' Journal, and it now graces The Register.

For the first time, the very best of Stob's columns have been collected into one essential book. Discover why Mrs. Bill Gates calls in a programmer to fix her plumbing; find out about the Google computer that suffers from Tourette's syndrome; discover the shameful secret of the CEO who types his correspondence in CAPITAL LETTERS, and much, much more!

Life Before Guis (19881994).- How Friendly Is Your Software?.- The Programmers Guide to Programmers.- Larn Yasel Programmin!.- POETS Day.- The Maltese Modem.- Late One Night.- The Kraken Sleeps.- Twenty Things (Almost) You Didnt Know ....- Few Lend (but Fools).- The Best Improve with Age.- STOB versus the Software Engineers.- Auntie Veritys Hardware Help.- Underground Liff.- The Games We Play.- A Chance to Meet You.- Wot Any Bule Kno.- About ....- Not Fairies Footfalls.- FLGMJLLGHQ.- In Glorious Verity Vision.- The Rasp of the Modem (199519100).- I Want to Die.- Dear Bill.- Modem Tales.- Around and Around.- Four Yorkshiremen.- Email and Femail.- Morse Code.- I Prefer Tea.- Junior Makes Three.- Dont Look Back.- Book of Anders.- The Black Eye of the Little Blue Techie.- Mr. Jobs Works Next Door.- Quality Street.- You May Start.- 8086 and All That.- The Browser.- Park Gates.- Et Tu Gnome?.- Lets Parler Y2K!.- Yocam Hokum.- Bye Bye Byte.- Night Mail.- Cringing for Bobot or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About the Quality of My Work and Just Made Dreary TV Programmes Instead.- One Nostril Hair, 17mm, Grey.- The Dogs Breakfast.- Book of Yoc-am (Contd.).- Fair Play.- By Other Means.- Waltz$.- Thirteen Ways to Loathe VB.- Claires Story and Other Tragedies.- Down the Pole.- Outl