Monthly Archives: September 2007

Via Sam’s random musings: Now That’s Recycling: Seen in a parking lot in Warwick, Rhode Island. Reference

Via Coding Horror: Software developers think their job is writing code. But it’s not.* Their job is to solve the customer’s problem. Sure, our preferred medium for solving problems is software, and that does involve writing code. But let’s keep … Continue reading →

Google Launches ‘The Google’ For Older Adults: “All you have to do to turn the website on is put the little blinking line thing in the cyberspace window at the top of the screen, type ‘thegoogle.com,’ and press ‘return’—although it … Continue reading →

Very positive article about REALbasic 2007 Release 4 (which I’m using and loving) from Redmond Developer: The product interface is very clean in its appearance and function, compared with the more cluttered VB6 development environment that I had previously used. … Continue reading →

From Ananova: A Bosnian couple are getting divorced after finding out they had been secretly chatting each other up online under fake names. Beautiful.

Those of you who know me well know that my home office is currently a corner of my laundry room. It’s not an ideal situation, but it’s workable for now. It’s quiet at night, since I’m on the other end … Continue reading →

Very interesting discussion of Rainbow Tables over at Coding Horror: But it is possible to attack the hashed value of your password using rainbow tables: enormous, pre-computed hash values for every possible combination of characters. An attacking PC could certainly … Continue reading →

Lord help me, I’ve created a Facebook account. The fact that I did that surprised me. But you know what surprised me even more? Facebook is kind of cool. I feel dirty even thinking it, but I’ve hooked up with … Continue reading →

New York Times: Madeleine L’Engle, who in writing more than 60 books, including childhood fables, religious meditations and science fiction, weaved emotional tapestries transcending genre and generation, died Thursday in Connecticut. She was 88. May she rest in peace. Oh, … Continue reading →

Slashdot asks: Are Relational Databases Obsolete? Short answer: no. Long answer: no, you idiot. Don’t be such an idiot. A Brief History of Ugly: Apple in the last 10 years I must take exception with his assertions that the iMac … Continue reading →