Month: May 2009
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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
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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 got very irritated, and wrote the following; but I didn’t send it.My mistake; I thought that since I had gotten…
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Another good reason not to have an account
Twitter dulls compassion for human suffering.Findings, Harpers June 2009, Pg. 84
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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…