Nullsoft's link to Audi?

[Brett Dikeman]

At 9:01 PM -0700 10/23/00, Mark L. Chang wrote:
>Check out www.blorp.com
>It features software written by Justin Frankel of Nullsoft fame
>(blorp). Besides it being cool software, it seems that Justin has at least
>some link to the Audi world.


He may be great with software, but he's obviously a complete space 
case when it comes to common sense:

http://www.blorp.com/?path=Car%20Pictures%2FThe%20Audi%20Mud%20Experience&img=NMVC-002F.JPG

http://www.blorp.com/?path=Car%20Pictures%2FThe%20Audi%20Mud%20Experience&img=NMVC-016F.JPG

The second picture is an embarrassment to Audi owners in general.

There's also pictures of his 5000 turbo, which he ran off the road, 
over a rock, and into a tree in the middle of the desert(he seems 
proud of his accomplishment, but there's no explanation for how he 
managed to do it); then there's the picture of him in his a4 avant 
doing 130mph.  Then there are the obligatory pictures of him with 
various colored hair, some PR "high quality" photos of him(can you 
say eeeeegooo...)

He strikes me as the "nicely groomed rebel with cologne but no clue." 
The type that has a perfect haircut+beard(short, of course!), 
perfectly dressed in style of GQ, talks really smooth and thinks the 
world revolves around him and everybody owes him.  We have more than 
one of his kind at work(in fact, he looks like a cookie-cutter image 
of our former CTO.)

He has a reputation for being extremely eccentric.  He's been called 
a "internal human resources matter" by AOL press(Nullsoft was aquired 
by AOL) and apparently does everything in his power to get 
fired...except AOL never seems to get around to it.  There are 
constantly stories about him doing really inappropriate things; AOL 
gets confronted by reporters, and AOL admits a little that 
something's up and they're not happy, but nothing more happens.

   He was at least partly responsible for Gnutella, and a piece of 
software which covers the ad space in the AIM client.  Then there's 
stories flying about him screwing around with stuff on AOL's private 
network/backbone.

"spoiled brat" comes to mind.   "AOL bought my company so I'm god's 
gift to humanity"...or he simply made so much money off the 
aquisition that he just doesn't care.

Brett
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