I was not too surprised by Tuesday’s news, since I have pretty much been waiting for that shoe to drop ever since this shoe dropped. Since last July I have anyway felt rather a fish out of water in the AOL development culture, and I am hoping that this will have the good side of […]
This Sunday to Tuesday the whole family was on vacation in L.A. for two days, doing all the obligatory L.A. touristy things. A great time was had by all: the kids especially enjoyed Universal Studios and I especially enjoyed the Getty Museum, but everybody enjoyed everything overall. Coming back was quite a shock, though. After […]
The wise men of Chelm were discussing whether one would be better off to have been born or never to have been born. After seven days and seven nights they came to their conclusion: one would be better off never to have been born, but who is that lucky? Maybe one in a million. Here […]
Reading Netscape Time by Jim Clark, I was struck by the following passage After all, it’s monkish work to write line after line of instructions in arcane computer languages day after day, month after month. The task must be something like translating the Bible from Hebrew and Greek to English (or rather, the other way […]