Day: May 28, 2009
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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 didn’t know it; and the second time decided to bag it because I found the hole in the tire. Took…
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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 exaggerated. And, although I haven’t used it in years, I still have my college COBOL textbook, and I fondly remember…