I’m only going to say this once: don’t use “gay,” or any related word, as a term of derision.
“PHP is gay!”
“… some stupid fag on the mailing list …”
Just don’t.
I don’t want to hear your protestations that the word you used has nothing to do with the term commonly used for homosexuality. For one [...]

There’s a rumour doing the rounds lately about the death of business casual. If you follow fashion at all — beyond checking ThinkGeek’s latest offerings — you might’ve heard that tailoring and classic styles are the big thing lately. And people are saying that with the bursting of the dot-com bubble, the excesses [...]

OK, OK, I’ll write about mobile phone etiquette! I guess by the number of people who’ve suggested it, it must be a matter of supreme importance. I wouldn’t have supposed that it was something that applied particularly to geeks, though; in my experience, it’s non-technical management and sales people who are most glued [...]