I saw Home from the Prudential Skywalk... A Holy Christmas and a Happy New Year! 5:10 PM Dec 24th, 2008
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 5:59 PM Dec 18th, 2008
Once again: back in Boston, back in business 8:07 PM Dec 9th, 2008
Back in Boston, back in business 6:26 PM Dec 2nd, 2008
Goodbye NYC, we're going back to Boston 3:40 AM Dec 1st, 2008
2008-12-30
The Tale of Despereaux
The Tale of Despereaux
An interesting character, average drawings, a very weak story. Mildly recommended.
An interesting character, average drawings, a very weak story. Mildly recommended.
2008-12-23
Horton hears a Who!
Horton hears a Who!
Horton: "I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one hundred percent. That's my code, my motto."
Horton: "I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one hundred percent. That's my code, my motto."
2008-12-14
2008-12-13
Email communication breakdown?
Communication breakdown,in "Communication Breakdown" by Led Zeppelin
It's always the same,
I'm having a nervous breakdown,
Drive me insane!
Do you get this feeling when you're handling your email? I know I did.
Then I decided to change the way I worked with email using a Google-inspired approach: "archive and use search instead of spending a lot of time storing the messages meticulously in specific folders".
My current email folders are the following:
Inbox
My Mail
Mailing Lists
That's right! Just three!
'Inbox' has the new arrivals that I haven't read or handled yet. 'My Mail' holds all my messages. 'Mailing Lists' holds messages not specifically for me but that I'm interested in keeping. Mail can be directly stowed in Mailing Lists using filters.
When you want to look up a specific mail message, just use your program's search capabilities to retrieve it quickly! (e.g. Thunderbird's search capabilities are very good).
But doesn't this mean that the 'My Mail' and 'Mailing Lists' keep growing indefinitely? Yes, it does. This is why we need one more time: archives.
My archives folders look like this:
Archives
|-My Mail Archive
|-2005
|-2006
|-2007
|-Mailing Lists Archive
|-2005
|-2006
|-2007
Archiving is easy and is done once a year.
For me this email scheme works great. Do you want to give it a try?
John C. Dvorak on the state of education
Are we creating unethical kids by not modernizing the school system?
Read the article by John C. Dvorak in PC Magazine's website
2008-12-12
2008-12-10
Bjarne Stroustrup on educating software developers
Few students see code as anything but a disposable entity needed to complete the next project and get good grades. Much of the emphasis in teaching encourages that view.
Read the full interview by Bjarne Stroustrup, the designer of C++, at internet.com
2008-12-07
Chicago
...is my kind of town!Modern downtown, excellent museums, good (and cheap) public transportation. And great tasting pizza!
It's worth a visit, for sure!
2008-12-05
The Screwtape Letters play
An excellent adaptation of the classic book by C.S. Lewis.The Toadpipe character adds a visual layer to the show that makes it even more compelling.
I certainly hope a DVD edition of the play will be available for purchase.
2008-12-03
Ray Ozzie quotes
I love software, because if you can imagine something, you can build it.
I love Windows, because without it there would be no PC. There would be no PC developers. There might not even be a Web.
I love the ubiquitous Web because of the connections it opened up.
I love competition. But when we're behind a competitor, I hate it when we find ourselves just chasing their taillights.
-- Ray Ozzie - Microsoft's Chief Software Architect - quoted on Wired Magazine (Dec 2008).
2008-12-02
Prison break 4
Prison break season 4
Theodore Bagwell (TB): So you knew who I was from the start, huh? My real name, my record...
Special Agent Miriam Holtz (MH): I read your file, yeah.
TB: What if you hadn't?
MH: What's your point?
TB: What if you never knew I was Theodore Bagwell, the convict? Would you have believed I was Cole Pfeiffer? Stellar salesman... Talented speaker?
MH: I don't know. You certainly had a lot of other people fooled, though. Till you pointed a machine gun on them.
TB: I guess it's like "we are captives of our own identities, living in prisons of our own creation." Who would've thought they'd actually be right about something?
T-Bag played by Robert Knepper and Miriam by Shannon Lucio.
Theodore Bagwell (TB): So you knew who I was from the start, huh? My real name, my record...
Special Agent Miriam Holtz (MH): I read your file, yeah.
TB: What if you hadn't?
MH: What's your point?
TB: What if you never knew I was Theodore Bagwell, the convict? Would you have believed I was Cole Pfeiffer? Stellar salesman... Talented speaker?
MH: I don't know. You certainly had a lot of other people fooled, though. Till you pointed a machine gun on them.
TB: I guess it's like "we are captives of our own identities, living in prisons of our own creation." Who would've thought they'd actually be right about something?
T-Bag played by Robert Knepper and Miriam by Shannon Lucio.
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