Quotations
Truth
The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.Mark Twain
Month: August 2006
Humor
Salesmanship
A young man from Minnesota moves to Florida and goes to a big “everything under one roof” department store looking for a job.The Manager says, “Do you have any sales experience?”The kid says “Yeah. I […]
Computer
RUM August
Last night I went to my second Ruby Users of Minnesota meeting at the Loring Park Dunn Brothers. Seems like a nice bunch. Here’s what I learned about:There was a discussion about using Simply RESTful […]
Computer
Unintended consequences
We had no idea that this [the Internet] would turn into a global and public infrastructure.Vinton Cerf
Computer
Donating those old PCs
You can call it any number of things: “equipment lifecycle”, “asset turnover” or even just “Hey, get rid of the crappy old thing already.” But the upshot is the same, clearing desk and rack space […]
Quotations
Metaphor
Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible.Johan Huizinga
General
Happy Anniversary to the Big Easy
There are four stages of denial:It won’t happen.If it does happen, it won’t happen to me.If it does happen to me, it won’t be that bad.If it happens to me and it’s bad, there’s nothing […]