How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin DisraeliMay 2009
Monthly Archive
Sun 31 May 2009
Sat 30 May 2009
We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage – and indeed perhaps more.
Pearl S. BuckSat 30 May 2009
After asking our report writer if she had gotten to work on my report that was due on 17-April; she got around to telling me on the 30th that she hadn’t started on it. I got very irritated, and wrote the following; but I didn’t send it.
My mistake; I thought that since I had gotten you setup to view the database that you were working on it. I’ll talk to FNS about getting additional report writing resources since you can’t be expected to follow through on your commitment to them for 20% of your time on a weekly basis.
I didn’t send it because I realized that it wouldn’t do any good, and that it would just cause trouble; but I thought you would enjoy it.
Fri 29 May 2009
Fri 29 May 2009
Thu 28 May 2009
Went on a ride with Jill on Sunday, 24 May on the Gateway trail, got five miles and had two flat tires. Ripped the tire the first time less than a mile out and I didn’t know it; and the second time decided to bag it because I found the hole in the tire. Took off my bike shoes because they suck to walk in, and burned the bottoms of my feet on the asphalt. Had bad blisters, but soaking and moleskin is doing the trick and I hope to be out tonight to resume training for the MS150.
Went to Ride Marshal training last night and volunteered as sweep for the first half of the day on Saturday, June 13th; so it will be a leisurely ride from Proctor to Willow River.
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Thu 28 May 2009
The world’s most demonized legacy software development language (See the world didn’t end because of the Y2K crisis) turns fifty-years-old today. I think the talk of it’s certain demise in the 1990s was a little exaggerated. And, although I haven’t used it in years, I still have my college COBOL textbook, and I fondly remember that my COBOL class was where I learned about control breaks in software development.
According to an editors note from Dr. Dobbs, (11-Jul-2008) citing a letter from David Black:
…200 billion lines of COBOL are in use today (65 percent of the total software). This represents a $2 trillion dollar total investment (Gartner Group). Five billion new lines of COBOL are being added each year (IBM). 85 percent of all computer programs are written in COBOL. Your life is influenced around the clock by COBOL applications. They vary from banks, stock markets, grocery store businesses, hospital administration, steel manufacturing, automotive production, insurance companies, …
