September 30, 2005
Intelligent Design and Me
The most interesting thing to me about Intelligent Design, though, is that if you look too closely at it, it's an argument against the Christian God.read... (426 words. Posted to personal at 10:03 AM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 14)
September 28, 2005
The Wall of Death
Data exists in some ether that your mind never really has to deal with completely. Physical things have presence. They take up space. They can arrest your vision. When you move them they stay moved. You can fold, spindle and mutilate them as you wish.read... (837 words. Posted to nerd at 12:08 AM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 4)
September 27, 2005
Programming is...
Programming is looking at a feature request in the morning and thinking "I can do that in one line of code"...read... (44 words. Posted to nerd at 06:18 PM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 4)
September 26, 2005
They Did it Their Way
There was an article in Saturday's Sydney Morning Herald about a supposedly extinct species of stork that had been re-discovered. The photo alongside the article showed a pair of said storks standing in a nest over their clutch of eggs. Guess what the caption was?read... (48 words. Posted to personal at 09:01 PM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 1)
September 25, 2005
Benefit of the Doubt - a Social Pattern
Express your displeasure with the behaviour of the party in the wrong, but do so in such a way that places a favourable interpretation on the reasons for their actions. Suggest that their actions were obviously an unintentional mistake, or were done for good, but misguided motives. This way you offer the other party the opportunity to repudiate their own actions, but to save face in doing so.read... (401 words. Posted to nerd at 01:28 AM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 4)
September 21, 2005
Useful del.icio.us Hack
Because the URL for the feed can be safely shared, you can stick it up on your Intranet, encourage your co-workers to subscribe to it in their own RSS readers, and so on.read... (346 words. Posted to nerd at 04:39 PM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 0)
September 07, 2005
Random Quotes
The writing bug has deserted me lately, so in lieu of real content here are a few random quotes from around the office.read... (139 words. Posted to nerd at 05:49 PM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 3)