What does it <i>really</i> mean?
Next time you’re reading something, try to understand what the text is really saying. Imagine you are that person inside the text. How does it feel? How big is it? What is really going on here.
When …
They're angry because they're hurt
I’m amazed at the level of anger and frustration over ArsDigita being vented (anonymously) over at F**kedcompany.com.
It proves my point, though: People are angry because they’re hurt. They’re hurt b…
Serendipity
Got an email this morning from Bryan Quinn talking about serendipity.
I’ve been meaning to look that word up for a while now (you know, what with the movie and all), but didn’t get around to it until…
McAfee
There we go again: “Failed to Register Scheduler DLL in AvSynchMgr”. Didn’t I uninstall it yesterday?
Apparantly not. So I uninstalled it just now, and now Outlook won’t start, because it’s missing s…
Would you like a food?
You’ve probably heard of Scandinavian open-faced sandwiches.
What you may not know is that they’re in fact so common, that they’re simply called “foods” (madder):
One food (en mad). Multiple foods…
McAfee sucks
I've cancelled McAfee's Virusscan online twice now. First time they didn't work with IE6 yet, though it had been in preview for a sizable period. Then the lured me back with a really cheap offer, an…
Argentina points to the future by returning to the past
Amazing. As the Argentinian economy has collapsed, people turn to trade goods for goods in a good old-fashioned barter economy, anno 2002. They even print their own “bank” notes, which are worth a lot…
Short projects are fun
I’ve been doing a couple two-week projects as a freelance developer. It’s quite fun, and it’s good training to do development projects on such a compressed time scale.
During the first day or two, yo…
Blog is here
Yes, so now I’m officially blogging. Figured it was time for some changes around here.
Besides, what else was I gonna do with all those small scraps of information and ideas that didn’t fit anywhere …