June 2007

26Jun2007

Stupid Mental Tricks: remembering alarm codes

The problem is that since I'm rarely the first person into the office (no laughing at the back, please!) or the last person to leave, the time lag between me being told the new codes and actually having to use them is pretty long. Short of writing them on a piece of paper in my wallet, how to remember them?

22Jun2007

Java on Apple is dooooooomed

This puts Apple behind Sun (duh), on a par with IBM, slightly ahead of the remainder of Unix-land and, it's worth mentioning in passing, light-years ahead of Microsoft and the Linux vendors who don't even maintain their own JDKs any more.

08Jun2007

Relevance is not Symmetrical

My favourite Wikipedia foible, one that amuses me almost every time I look something up on the site, is the assumption on the part of its editors that relevance is a symmetrical relationship.