Yes, me hearties, it’s Christmas again. Another year almost over. I hope the year was as exciting to all of you as it was for me, and wish everybody a blessed Christmas Time, and a smooth entry into a Great New Year! May Santa Claus be generous to all of us!
… the world stops for a moment.
There is something incredibly moving in the planet’s atmosphere today. It is the sadness and shock of millions fans around the globe who bemoan the death of Michael Jackson.
Not long ago, I updated my antivirus software to a new version. I do that regularly, as it is so easy to keep track with new updates: The software does that for me! Every time a newer version of it was released, the software asked me if I wanted to update to that new version. [...]
I usually stay out of politics, not because I’m indifferent, but because there never seemed to be a big difference between this or that party, this or that candidate, this or that government. It always appeared to me as if behind different faces it was all the same old bullshit.
Until Obama came…
Sick and tired of all the FUD about the Conficker and whatnot? Even scared? Fear not, my friend, for things are never as bad as they seem. So calm down, stop fearing, and start thinking. Take a deep breath, and start taking action.
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Have you noticed the increasing uniformity of how blog posts are being named these days? At every turn, there seems to be the same simple, supremely uncreative title pattern. You know, titles like
69 Hot Tips For A Perfect Love Life
or
How To Make A Billion Dollar In 3 Easy Steps
This “style” has spread like a malicious [...]
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Today, I incidentally came accross a (somewhat older) discussion about python jobs, where I found a post from someone who was looking for one, saying
I ended up doing Java web developement close to where I live. I figured big projects in slow languages = slow progress = job security. Alas, probably less fun too.
Note his [...]
It’s the last day of the year, and I chose not to write any technical, nor critical article. Instead, I’d like to turn my attention to a phenomenon that’s one of the greater, even if overlooked, achievements of the Internet.
Besides the zillion apparent ways the Internet has changed human life on this planet, there are [...]
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Yesterday would have been the 121st birthday of one of the brightest minds this planet has ever been a home to: Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Little known to a wider public, this guy, although born and raised in poverty, and with absolute no formal education, managed not only to reproduce by himself – in a self-tought fashion – [...]
When I wrote “Psychology Of IT Language“, I brought up the aspect of communication of principles, the implicit communication of values, and its possible psychological impact on an organization.
As I’m further contemplating about it, patterns begin to disclose themselves. Two such patterns are Chinese Whisper and Boiling Frog. But before I go into them, an [...]
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