Year: 2008

  • Compliment

    A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.Eleanor Hamilton

  • The 2008 InfoWorld Geek IQ Test

    Your score is 63.Of the 2679 people who have completed the test so far, 415 scored higher and 2264 scored the same or lower.Take the original InfoWorld Geek IQ TestEmail this InfoWorld IQ test to a friend

  • Compassion

    If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • Your best

    Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.Pythagoras

  • In Praise of Scripting: Real Programming Pragmatism

    I weep when I think about the text processing written in C under my managerial watch because the programmer didn’t know Perl.  Considering that there are much better scripting tools for much of what gets programmed in Java and C++, perhaps the question should be whether Java and C++ scale to enterprise projects.Ronald P. Loui,…

  • China is ready

    China is ready for the Olympics and the resulting influx of English speaking tourists…Which is one step up from just lovely…But taste like cat.Here, crippie, take my seat.Great with flied liceA seperate entrance for Hos….why didn’t I think of that?Sounds better than canned water doesn’t it?Go over there to die, please.  Thank you.Good to know.Not…

  • Keep rowing

    As one goes through life one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.Katharine Hepburn