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Posts from July 2005

The Brilliant Supervisionary Genius in the Oval House

One of the most popular, and most odious, conservative blogs out there is called Powerline. I will not link to it, as I don’t want its rightwing nutjob cooties all over doodleplex, but I have to mention this, from one of their recent posts:

It must be very strange to be President Bush. A [...]


Model! View! Controller!

The Model/View/Controller paradigm has been around since 1979, when Trygve Reenskaug came up with what is arguably one of the most influential concepts in modern software history. Twenty five years later, it still forms the underpinnings of the vast majority of our user interfaces, and has extended beyond the realm of rich client design to [...]


Ramble On

I’m sitting in a foreign Starbucks, in the far Northern Kingdom of Frederick, watching two flies locked in some sort of martial/marital embrace, spinning down to the ground in a frantic death spiral. Fine by me. I’m not much of a fan of flies, or any insects, really. I mean, they’re not as bad as [...]


35

I have trouble remembering how old I am. There just isn’t enough spare retentive capacity in my tiny little one-bedroom mind to waste on another number, so I don’t. This hasn’t been a problem, though: I was born in 1970, so the calculation is particularly simple, even for me.

However, as I approach my thirty-fifth year, [...]


Schadenrove

Schadenrove: Happiness at the misfortune of Karl Rove.

I’ve been watching the slow outing of Karl Rove with a giddy kind of joy for the past couple of weeks. It’s now clear that he’s the one who told Time magazine that Joseph Wilson’s wife was an undercover CIA operative. Wilson had just written an editorial debunking [...]


Happiness

Magpie waxes brilliant:

I’ve learnt that happiness isn’t located anywhere that you can actually get on a plane and fly to. You have to build your own little stash of happy that you take with you wherever you go. And without that, there’s nowhere you can be where you won’t feel lost.

Stash of happy. [...]


The 39 Steps

I’m cleaning out my room this weekend. Over the past six years, I’ve managed to cram about three tons of papers/receipts/batwings/rubber brains/catalogs/maps/eyelashes/magazines/etc into a space about the size of a washing machine, and it’s about to explode: I can hear it creaking and shifting and groaning around me, all that massy mass, the weight of [...]


Form Over Function in the Web World

I’m been watching a really fascinating series of talks over at The Server Side, on the subject of J2EE best practices and project failures and scalability and all manner of serious geekaliciousness. Even better, I’m watching it right in my browser, on this neat Flash viewer that displays the video stream on the left, and [...]