The temperature is hovering around ninety this week, and it’s bright and sunny, so of course the air conditioning in our building decides to croak yesterday afternoon. And of course the repair place can’t get out here to look at it until tomorrow at the earliest. Our office is on the upper floor, which reached …
Fascinating piece on how reading is actually done.
Appetizing.
As reported earlier, I’m trying to write a C++ program to let me know whether my backup program is working properly or not.
I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of the C++ programming language I’ve been doing software development for twenty-five years as a hobby, and the last nine commercially as …
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…unfortunately for them, it was empty. 🙂
What do you do when a fifty-pound chunk of ice crashes through your roof out of the clear blue sky?
Here’s the latest installment in what is becoming a regular feature. The first in our hall of shame is a message with the subject line “Paraphernalia of high life – for less!” I thought it would be an ad for bongs and crack-pipes, and wondered how even spammers would get away with advertising that kind …
It is with a sad heart that I read that the Weekly World News is on it’s deathbed. When I worked at the Postal Service, one of my colleagues brought a copy in every week so that people could keep up with the news of how President Clinton (and later Bush the Younger) were getting …
Oh wonderful, yet another species that will call up and bug me to do things for it.