[ Thanks to Joe
Barr for this link. ]
“It’s that time of year again. Luckily, playing the fool is not
a new game for me so making predictions about the future isn’t that
bad. As has now become traditional, let’s start with a look back at
2002 to see how I did. Or should I say, how I can best distance
myself from some of those picks.“First, the good news. I am in the running for DPY (Densest
Prognosticator of the Year) for 2002. My nomination came as the
direct result of misreading my crystal ball and opining that the MS
‘settlement’ would be thrown out. I guess I should have known it
would be justice that would be set aside, not the ‘settlement.’“As far as my prognostication about a three-letter intelligence
agency suffering a public and catastrophic loss because of using
Windows software, I can’t reveal any details of it here lest I be
forced to kill you. It’s safer for us all if I simply deny ever
having predicted such a thing…”