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nerd of the day

My nerd of the day vote goes to Dmitry Vostokov aka Dr. Debugalov. He is likely an inspiration to the Citrix dev team (where he works), and he seems to have the most thorough understanding of the inner bowels of Windows outside of Redmond. Also he has a really geeky sense of humor, take for example the famous quotations turned into bug-ese 'bugations' and the following poem: The new thread started To work through items It got an item Handled it to store To run delete requests Through Oh-Dee-Bee-See It tried to alloc But crashed in malloc While browsing the heap Exception was dispatched And handler called at once But couldn't find a filter And called default one That filter needed help And looked for its address But halted in suspense While entering crit sec. March 2009 (c) Dmitry Vostokov Inspired by the following stack trace (remeber to read from bottom to top): 0:01> ~8kL ChildEBP RetAddr 009ef258 7c827d0b ntdll!KiFastSystemCallRet 009ef25c 7c83d236 ntdll!NtWaitForSin...