I did a Technorati Vanity Check yesterday and noticed the following link: ผู้เชี่ยวชาญเกิดจากอะไร Staying true to my culturally oblivious American (technically United Statesian) roots, I took some wild guesses and placed the language somewhere in the Middle East. Not surprisingly, I was not even close. It turned out to be a direct translation of one [...]
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Did you ever wonder what it would be like to watch a stand-up comedy routine filmed in infrared? If you haven’t already watched Rory’s creepy YouTube Thanksgiving tribute to spiders and pretentious amateur film-makers, then grab yourself a set of ear-phones and get ready for ten minutes of well-edited and quirky hilarity. I particularly liked [...]
I just read the Silent Majority post by Paul Vick, which challenges conventional wisdom by offering some evidence that VB.NET is more popular than C#. The VB.NET vs C# flame war that ensued in the comment section led me to the following thoughts. 1. The difference between these languages truly is trivial. The recruiters I [...]
Don’t get excited. This is not a geek version of the “Birds and the Bees” talk. I just finished reading another excellent scientific paper called The Expert Mind, which I discovered through one of Jean-Paul Boodhoo’s posts. The article examines the question of whether experts are born or made and offers some interesting insights into [...]
I’d like to introduce you to Sophia, future developer and blogger extraordinaire. She’s only 22 weeks old, but as you can clearly tell from this picture she is very precocious. When I mentioned I was downloading Visual Studio 2008 tonight, she was so excited that she kicked and startled her Mommy. I didn’t have the [...]
A psychology study entitled Unskilled And Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Leads To Inflated Self-Assessments opens with the following amusing anecdote: In 1995, McArthur Wheeler walked into two Pittsburgh banks and robbed them in broad daylight, with no visible attempt at disguise. He was arrested later that night, less than [...]
This week I installed a few nifty Firefox Add-Ons, All-In-One-Gestures and IE Tab. I tried All-In-One-Gestures after watching how fast a co-worker was able to navigate on the web by using this Add-On. It allows you to right-click anywhere on a web page and move the mouse left to go backward or right to go [...]
Really, it’s not that hard! If the idea is remotely appealing to you, then I recommend that you throw caution to the wind and just commit to doing it. There are thousands of people who do it all the time that are fatter, lazier, slower, older, and saner than you’ll ever be. You may actually [...]
…he’d definitely want in on some of this action. I clipped some quotes from the comment section of a recent post by a popular blogger. See if you can guess the blogger’s identity and topic of the post based on the comments below. Commenter: I think you weren’t hugged enough as a child. Blogger: I [...]
If you’re not a regular reader of Rory Blythe’s blog, then you may have missed his recent Neopolean Creation Story series of posts. Here are some questions to help you decide if you are ready for the experience: Are you a fan of Monty Python movie, “The Life of Brian”? Have you ever found yourself [...]
