A Few Quotes and Stuff...

• "The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea."- _The Wizardry Compiled_ by Rick Cook
  
• Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
  
• Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.
  
• We don't really understand it, so we'll give it to the programmers.
  
• The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten 10% of its capacity, the rest is overhead for the operating system.
  
• Programming is an art form that fights back.
  
• There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
  
• Best file compression around: "DEL *.* /S" = 100% compression
  
• Windows: Just another pane in the glass.
  
• RAM disk is *not* an installation procedure.
  
• Shell to DOS...Come in DOS, do you copy? Shell to DOS...
  
• What happens to programmers when they die?
  
  • They get deallocated?
    
  • Their values become undefined?
    
  • The get re-intialized?
    
  • Their structues break down?
    
  • They become WORM food...
    
  • They start dropping bits........
    
  • They branch to a new address!
    
  • Their social system resources are released?
    
  • They dump core?
    
  
  

Battle in the Kruger Park

Here a small pride of lions, a crocodile and an herd on buffalo. It is AMAZING!!!

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM

Questions in the early morning

What am I doing? Where am I going with my life? Am I moving forward? Progressing? Stagnating? Growing?

I think I'm growing, moving forward. I feel/think that it's just a bit slow...

Google Health Turns a Little Bit Evil?

Google Health Advertising Blog: Does negative press make you Sicko? Was Lauren Turner doing anything wrong other than trying to get more customers? She said what they wanted to hear, but don't most salesmen?

S N O W ! ! !

It snowed yesterday morning!!! I never thought I'd see snow in my life, not to mention snow over my home in Kempton Park! The last time it snowed like this in Kemton was about 27 years ago, four years before I was born. Check out some photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdilord

Goodnight dear reader. Sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite.

Good Morning

It was SO cold when I hot up today! My knees really protested! Had some lekker rooibos tea with rusks, now making the day's sarmies - two peanut butter rolls and a ham sarmie. Also boiling the breakfast sausages.

Still surprised I forgot to blog about Father's Day. A belated blog-Happy Father's Day Dad!!! I love you, I'm proud of you and I thank the Lord for you often. Thanks Dad. Love you.

The Power of Focus

A month or two after one of my colleagues told me that in the States one typically specialises in a certain type or field of programming (as opposed to the jack-of-all-trades approach typical of South Africa and New Zealand) I still find it amazing!!! What an awesome opportunity to specialise like that!

Which File Extension Are You?

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Which File Extension are You?

Microsoft’s developer patent pledge “worse than useless” says SFLC

What else did you expect from those asses at microsoft? Charity and good will towards men?
http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2006/11/microsofts_deve.html

5 ways to save on your monthly software rental bill in the year 2056

Brlliant!!!

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/1787

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