Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Two unrelated code quality stories today

Cathedral meet bazaar.

If you don't get the reference and care to learn more, start here.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Bloviate - Word of the Day

Bloviate - to speak pompously and excessively

Honestly, most folks are guilty of this from time to time.

The thing that people who do it too often seem to miss is that bloviation hurts their case when trying to persuade toward valid positions on genuinely held beliefs. For example.

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Turnbow

You gotta feel for the guy.

Segregation...

...leads to rights for women? I can see that it probably is more comfortable and convenient in many ways.

Friday, May 9, 2008

Vah LAY Ho

Bankrupt!

Doom IV

Carmack's creation is coming back to life again. Id is hiring for Doom 4.

Warrants without judicial review...

are just WRONG, WRONG, WRONG.

Monday, May 5, 2008

Global warming due to increased sun energy?

Mars is warming too.

Now the question is if the Earth is warming faster than Mars with the rates proportionally adjusted for distance from the sun and other variables, no? I wonder if current science good enough to get even a ballpark answer.

I still think that taking massive amounts of carbon out of the ground and releasing it in the atmosphere has to have some impact.