Mike Macgirvin
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Thursday, Aug 28 2008, 06:45 pm
Oct 25, 2003
The sun - yes that glowing orb in the sky; is about to hit us

The sun - yes that glowing orb in the sky; is about to hit us with a popped zit from its surface. Maybe it will wreak havoc with all things electronic, maybe not. Seem to recall a day or two back in the late 80's when the earth swept through a neutrino stream. The difference this time is that the particles are likely to be charged. As if we didn't have enough potential threats to normal life already; be on the lookout for (and avoid) things today that are just really, really weird. And take your vitamins.

Whilst going through some of my catalogues, I happened across a company that sells popcorn scent dispensers. There really oughta' be a law...

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A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems
have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects,
those software systems that have excited passionate fans are those that are
the products of one or a few designing minds, great designers. Consider Unix,
APL, Pascal, Modula, the Smalltalk interface, even Fortran; and contrast them
with Cobol, PL/I, Algol, MVS/370, and MS-DOS.
-- Fred Brooks