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The Magpie Developer
Jeff Atwood is one of the best programmer/writers around. I love reading his stuff, some I agree wholeheartedly with, other stuff we disagree, but this post is about a dead-on as they come. This idea has been floating in my head for a long time, but it is hard for me to conceptualize it in words, Atwood does a brilliant job at it. Must read for any developer. |
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Andy Olmsted's Last Blog Entry.
(Warning: Pretty rough) No matter how you feel politically about the war, this reminds you that each number people throw around as statistics is a human life. This is extremely well written, and pretty rough on your soul towards the end, but something everyone should read. Its a shitty situation all around, but there is always a human face behind the statistics and I want to make sure I never forget that. |
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Drinking stories that put yours to shame
Via Keith
To preserve his body during the voyage home, the second-in-command stored Nelson's body in the ship's vat of rum and halted all liquor rations to the crew. Not a bad idea, but when the ship reached port, officials went to retrieve Nelson's body and found the vat dry.
Disregarding good taste (in every sense), the crew had been secretly drinking from it the entire way home. After that, naval rum was referred to as Nelson's Blood. |
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making vodka pills in 24 hours
Recently, Chef Fabian was experimenting further with the Adria/Torreblanca technique of making 'vodka pills.' I use this word to describe the process of making liquid-filled candies by pouring flavored alcohol syrups into cornstarch and letting it set until a hard outer shell forms. |
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Strategy Letter VI - joelonsoftware.com
As a programmer, thanks to plummeting memory prices, and CPU speeds doubling every year, you had a choice. You could spend six months rewriting your inner loops in Assembler, or take six months off to play drums in a rock and roll band, and in either case, your program would run faster. Assembler programmers don’t have groupies.
Entire Article is Dead On. A must read for anyone in the software biz. |
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(Friday, May 20)
May 20th Links
More Googl-y stuff. Reporters without Borders asked Goog point blank if they planned to censor Google China (at the nations request). Remember, The Chinese Gov't already blocked Google News (sound like corporate America yet?). There reaction was that the new Goog offices in China are there to research the waters. With China's economy growing so fast I personally expect they will bow down and censor what the Govt wants them too so that they can swim in the golden economy. Another reason the old Google is going away. In my opinion, information is free and a gov't should in no way block communication into and out of it by it's people, I think the old Google would have been an adament guard of this. The new Google only sees the Ad Revenue I think though :( Anakin -> Vader = Google The Search Engine -> Google The Advertising Company. What happens when the Library of Alexandria no longer cares about providing information for free? Or offers that channel of content delivery to the highest bidder? Or worst yet, what if they are taken over by a Gov't? Information organization is a good thing, but its when the ability to present that to people for free wanes, then it is an extremely scary thing.
-Citizen 5462363454 from IP 532.212.635.233 (aka cyanbane)
I loved Google because it was the Anti-Yahoo. Clean interface. Easy Search. It is what made Google Google. Now they have gone and fuked it all up. Google looks more and more like Yahoo everyday.
Speaking of Google. Big Update in Serps today.
Great List of Flickr Tools
Ever Wonder What's in Big Mac dressing (To Roll your own as coders would say). Look no further.
Pics of the UI for the Xbox 360. Looks very Media Centerish to be. The Xbox 360 is kind of a weird situation for GUI designers. It is kind of that hybrid of a 1foot (Windows/ Normal PCs) experience and a 10ft experience (Microsoft Media Center). View Pics Here.
"I made [it] very clear to the Congress that the use of federal money, taxpayers' money, to promote science which destroys life in order to save life, I'm against that," Bush told reporters. "Therefore if the bill does that, I will veto it."
What GW would have said in 2000 (pre 9/11): = "I made [it] very clear to the Congress that the use of federal money, taxpayers' money, to promote science which destroys life in order to save life, the American people are against that"
What GW would have said in 2003 (pre election): = "I made [it] very clear to the Congress that the use of federal money, taxpayers' money, to promote science which destroys life in order to save life, my administration is against that"
What GW says today: = "I made [it] very clear to the Congress that the use of federal money, taxpayers' money, to promote science which destroys life in order to save life, I am against that"
With regard to the content of the quote, and not the quote its self, someone (probably South Korea or Netherlands) is going to do this. Why put the U.S. at a disadvantage in this scientific realm? CNN.com article here.
From Tom's : "The new standard price appears to be $60, which reflects a 20 percent price hike. Some game developers on the show floor of the E3 even said new games could be priced as high as $80 in the future." - Bloody Hell. I may just stick with PC Games. I got AO's Shadowlands Expansion (Hell you can play the basic core game online for free now!) for $5 last week at Circuit City and I think it has provided me more fun that GT4 and NCAA 2k4 combined.
Crying While Eating - My Favorite is Will and Berry Wine Cooler.
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Travis - The Boy With No Name
Travis is back. I wouldn't say I hated 12 memories, it was meant to be very political, I just thought it went a little overboard and was somewhat preachy. Then when the greatest hits CD came out to be honest I was really hoping it didn't mean the end to one of my favorite brit bands. Boy With No Name is everything they were capable of. Supurb CD all the way through. Every song is brilliant. Big Chair is probably my favorite song and the opening to the CD on 3 Times is as good as it gets in music imho. |
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Pop! Why Bubbles are Great For The Economys (Gross)
One of the better economic books I have read in while, where the author gets their premise across in a well written, clear and concise manner. Basically Gross believes that the infrastructure left over after economic bubbles, provides companies with the ability to move forward (maybe more than the original bubble did). Not a hard read, I would definitely suggest it for a day and the beach/lake. |
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Feist - The Reminder
I CANNOT GET "I feel it all" OUT OF MY HEAD. Period. Great album, angelic voice. |
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Catan - Xbox Live Arcade
I am hopelessly addicted to this board-turned-video game on the xbox360. I had never played the board game but had seen it being played in some comic shops growing up. Click the Pick and play the demo, it isn't the 360 interface, but same game. |
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Arctic Monkeys - Favorite Worse Nightmare
No Sophomore slump here. Just as good (if not better) than Whatever they Say. |
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Beautiful Evidence (Tufte)
Tufte reads like a text book, most people would say bleh, but the information about "information" that he can deliver is top notch. My first Tufte book was "A Visual Display To Quantitative Information" and it was extremely well done, albeit confusing at time. I think beautiful Evidence is a little easier of a read (I am still only half way through it) and a little easier for myself to understand the ideas he is presenting.. |
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Fountains of Wayne - Traffic and Weather
Fountains of Wayne are the Gods of pop music. If Welcome Interstate Managers was a collection of short stories in song form, then Traffic and Weather is an even better collection with more humor. I already feel like CNN has the hottest female anchors, imagining them throwing their lust around like the Title track to the CD makes it even better. |
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Game of Thrones (Martin)
I started this book assuming it was going to be a high fantasy novel. Elfs, Dragons, Magic and the like. It isn't. It IS fantasy but more surrounding the politics and cunning of a few high ranking families. Incest, Murder, Intrigue, unscrupulous midgets. It has it all and more. |
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Disclaimer
The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's view in anyway.
© Copyright 2003-2007, Eric Thompson |
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