Where is Google - a support call

(this is a transcript of a January 13, 2010 call to xSQL Software’s support group)

Caller: where is SQL Server 2005 SP3 – I can’t find it?
Support: well, we are not Microsoft but I will help you. Please do a Google search for “SQL Server 2005 SP3”, the first item on the list is what you need.
Caller: but I am using Bing, is that a problem?
Support: no, it is not a problem but the results are not necessarily the same and I am not sure if what you are looking for will be the first item on the list, so, why don’t you do this one search on Google?
Caller: but Bing is my default search and I don’t know how to change it!
Support: how about going to google.com first and then doing the search, you will not need to change anything?
Caller: oh, that is a good idea, a no brainer in fact...

while 1 < 1000

This is a true story, not a joke. This young student asked me to look at a piece of code he had written. He had an intentional endless loop that looked like this:
while (1 < 1000)
{
…
}

This sparked my curiosity and I asked him: why not do “while (1 < 2)”? I was expecting something like “I just like it that way” but no, to my utter surprise his answer was – “I just want to make sure”! I guess he was afraid that after a few loops 1 could grow and become bigger than 2! I contained my laugh and did not say anything but the puzzled look on my face probably gave him a cue that something was wrong with his reasoning.

It is funny and it does make one laugh (a couple of colleagues couldn’t stop laughing when I told them the story) but I also find it very sad for a college student to be at that level.