Phil Karlton said (at least once in my hearing anyway) that naming things was one of the two hard tasks in computer science (reading X Toolkit Intrinsics — C Language Interface, to which he contributed, will give you some idea why he said it); I discovered the truth of this yet again when writing the [...]
Daniel Gilbert’s Stumbling on Happiness is rightly popular (I had to wait some time before it became available at the local library). Despite the title, it’s not one of these “seven steps to real happiness” books. It’s more a book that tells you why people’s expectations of what will or should make them happy are [...]
I’m usually the chief sysadmin in the family for the things like the printer and the Windows boxes. In the interests of making it easier for myself in the future and hopefully others, here are a couple of things I fixed this week.
For some reason the printer, an old but still very productive HP Color [...]
Tim pointed me at the video of the test run for evacuating the A-380 - it’s worth a look. I noticed, however, that it wasn’t exactly a very realistic test. If you read the page rather than just leaping to the video, you’ll see the discussion of an earlier MD-11 test where a woman over [...]
Mother’s Day, in its best manifestation, is a day to celebrate family and togetherness and children, as well as mothers. On this day though, it’s also good to spare a thought for those who would like to be mothers but can’t be, for whatever reason, and for those who’ve lost their mothers, in whatever way. [...]
I’ve been heads-down on a project which was just announced (though not yet up and running, so I’m still working hard with the rest of the team on final details) about Sun putting up an OpenID IdP (identity provider). The idea is that this IdP will verify that the person using an OpenID of the [...]
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