Quotations
Criticism
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.Benjamin Disraeli
Month: May 2009
Quotations
Learning
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. Buck
General
Are you working on my report?
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 […]
Computer
Another good reason not to have an account
Twitter dulls compassion for human suffering.Findings, Harpers June 2009, Pg. 84
Humor
General
Getting ready to ride
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 […]
Computer
Happy Birthday COBOL!
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 […]