{"id":66,"date":"2026-08-05T17:26:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T00:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointyhair.com\/?p=66"},"modified":"2026-08-05T18:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T01:32:13","slug":"pointyhair-the-name-comes-dilbert-cartoon-the-pointyhaired-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointyhair.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/pointyhair-the-name-comes-dilbert-cartoon-the-pointyhaired-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Pointyhair, the name comes Dilbert cartoon, the pointyhaired boss."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Actually the domain name got its start because a colleague of mine, one day sent me a bit silly email &#8212; he forged the address as manager@pointyhair.com, which gave me a good idea. I immediately checked if pointyhair.com was available (it was!) I registered the domain immediately, pointed it to my servers, created the name manager@pointyhair.com with forwarding, then replied to adam&#8217;s email&#8230; how quickly he ran to my desk asking how on earth did my reply get back to him?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ever since, I decided to keep the domain &#8212; manager@pointyhair.com no longer goes anywhere &#8212; unless I come up with a brilliant idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since my background is a CTO &amp; VPeng, I like to help, mentor, lead by example as a technologist (unlike the pointyhaired boss of Dilbert). For me, a programming language is just a tool. I&#8217;ve coded in so many languages (though my favorites are C, C++ and Scala, along with Java, Perl, Python, Assembly (6502, 68k, 6803, Z80), Lisp (as you can guess from my text being sprinkled with lots of parenthesis), Ada (my internship language from VTT (Government research institute in Finland)), Pascal, Forth, Algol). I like to build my computers and networking so I know what&#8217;s happening and why. Donald Knuths trilogy of Seminumerical algorithms is prominently on my bookshelf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually the domain name got its start because a colleague of mine, one day sent me a bit silly email &#8212; he forged the address as manager@pointyhair.com, which gave me&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointyhair.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointyhair.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointyhair.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointyhair.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointyhair.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pointyhair.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/pointyhair.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointyhair.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointyhair.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointyhair.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}