Violating NDA and Misc other subjects

Published 14 March 5 3:29 PM | William

This monday marks the third or fourth week I quit drinking (I just remember it was a Monday) and I was hoping that drama in my life would decrease.  For the most part, it has (my a-hole moments increase exponentially when i drink).  But not really.  I posted something about the VB6 controversy and a little spat insued.  So again I find myself right square in the middle of drama - albeit this time it has very little to do with me .  I don't want to name names, let's just say that this is a spat between, umm, guys named  Hans and Will, one of them from a country with Gay Necrophiliac Ducks and the other from a place where the really funny Koala Bear Joke came from. Will decided that he was going to take the dispute semi-public by posting details about it in a private forum, a forum so private that I'm not allowed to even think about it in public because one of those dudes from Minority Report might read my mind and blog about it or something.  The problem is that Will pulled a New York Times and for one reason or another, seriously misrepresented Hans' position  I like Will a lot, but if Will did to me what he did to Hans, I would probably attempt the throw him out of a window the next time I ran into him  [You have to forgive me, I'm listening to “In my Hood“ on The Massacre by Fifty Cent - which BTW is a phenomenal album].  At a minimum I would have some of my soljaz run up on him and bust a few caps - assuming of course that I had soljaz and that they would go out bustin caps if I so asked them to.  And then after I threw him out of the window, I'd pull the ice off of my neck, whip up my AK and rat tat tat.  Ok, maybe I don't have any ice on my neck or an AK either, but well, my supposed response bears as much similarity to how I'd actually respond as Will's post beared to what Hans really said.

So, in a move of solidarity with Hans, I'm going to commit the same crime he did.  You see, I'm blogging publicly about something that happened privately in a Microsoft private NG.  There's absolutely no way you can know what the hell I'm talking about specifically if you weren't there.  So how could I have possible violated NDA.  But lets say I just did.  Oh well, I'm really really really sorry.  Would that give someone the right to go into a private newsgroup and misstate my comments?  Attribute things to me that are so out of context that they bear virtually no semblance to reality.  Now the f~~ked up part is that there is so much buzz about this.  I stopped counting posts when I got to 2 billion - well, not really but it seemed like it. It was the longest thread I think I've EVER EVER READ.

Since this whole stupid thing came about on my blog, I chimed in and posted the material in question.  If it was shown, it's inconceivable that the thread would have ever gotten that much attention.  But I guess the part that REALLY F~~king pissed me off was that for the first time since I've known Hans, I saw him get a little emotional in a post, that it got to him a little. I've never seen this guy even come close to losing his cool.   Don't get me wrong, if I was the subject of  a post that misstated something I said and I saw 45 trillion responses to it, I'd be pissed off too. 

Will - you're too good of a guy to continue with this - it's time to apologize to him and just end this nonsense.  I've ran my big stupid mouth many times and made an a33 out of myself -  since I couldn't change what I did - I just said I was wrong and apologized. I humbly sumbit that the same is probably the only cool course of action here.  Trust me, I'm not being self-righteous here or preaching, but there was nothing cool or fair about that post and IMHO - you owe someone an apology.

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# William said on March 14, 2005 5:25 PM:

i've got to see this ... can you send me the private group and the name of the thread?

# William said on March 14, 2005 5:34 PM:

Casey - you said "Private Newsgroup in Public" - that's a big NO NO! Bad Casey, Bad Casey. Didn't I just tell you that I'm not even allowed to think about it in Public just in case some of those Minority Report dudes got jobs at Slashdot or something? Sheesh!

Seriously though, check your email - I just sent it.

# William said on March 14, 2005 5:55 PM:

thanks. i just read the thread ... and you've got to be kidding me :(

maybe i need to turn the comment spammer back on to take their minds off of this :)

# William said on March 14, 2005 6:11 PM:

Casey- please don't post something like that again. My coworkers all think I'm nuts sitting here busting out laughing to myself.

# William said on March 15, 2005 9:21 AM:

KC - What up with your website?!? It's been down for about two weeks? Or is it just me?

Bill - I have no idea what's being said in the thread of the other place (see I didn't say private newsgroup), and I don't want to know either. What I do know is that Will is correct in saying that you don't have to quote something verbatim to breach the NDA. Also, IMHO, I don't think that what Frans said in your blog breached the NDA what so ever, it is far to vague for someone on the outside - i.e. me - to glean anything of mean from it other than some guy named Richard Grimes might not like VB....Though I could be wrong and the MS suits could be on their way to cart me off to court for repeating Frans' NDA breach...but that's the edge I live on! ;)

# William said on March 15, 2005 9:24 AM:

Finally B& B is back up.

# William said on March 15, 2005 11:35 AM:

Weird, I can get to b&b.com but I can't get anything that's on mrperfect.net. If I go to b&b.com I get the sidebar navigation pane, and I can get to some stuff on there - pocketIE, resume, etc. - that is hosted at b&b.com but if I try to get the blog, which is at mrperfect.com I'm getting blocked by our Novell BoarderManager...crap! Guess I'll have to read KC from home from now on... ;)

# William said on March 15, 2005 11:37 AM:

Skicow - it's mperfect - http://www.mperfect.net/brains-n-brawn/

# William said on March 15, 2005 11:48 AM:

D'oh!

You're right Bill, it's mperfect.net, I just read it wrong....but the same error occurs for me. :(

# William said on March 15, 2005 2:07 PM:

the DNS for bNb switched over before mperfect. so the default page and tree renders from bNb, and the blog runs from mperfect. its a hacked setup that has evolved from many iterations of the site. i plan on taming it once ASP.NET 2.0 gets a go live license

# William said on March 15, 2005 2:08 PM:

Where's the Comment Spam?

# William said on March 15, 2005 2:50 PM:

KC - Cool, thanks for the info KC - now I can continue to read your blog from work :)

Bill - Easy there Bill, don't tempt the man!

# William said on March 18, 2005 3:51 PM:

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