Zed Shaw - The ACL is Dead (or why working at big companies sucks) -
I watched this video from CUSEC 2008. Partly it’s about how the ACL (Access Control List) is not a turing complete language, but mostly it’s about working within a huge corporation and all the crap thattends to go with it (and advice for programmers in general). I have very little experience of this, but he reminds me why I’m happy working at a small company.
Warning: Lots of cursing, and a little bit of southern accent
It was a fairly good year for the garden, although I didn’t get to devote much time to it. We doubled the garden size from the previous year and had two whole different seasons of growth (spring/summer, and fall). We can do this since we’re in Florida. We grew (in descending order of success): green beans, black beans, basil, tomatoes, radishes, various types of lettuce, egg-plant, green peppers, and spinach.
We also started a few pots of strawberries but I’m not really counting them since we haven’t had any fruit yet.
We had an unusually warm December, so we still have lettuce in the garden. :-)
TED: Shawn Achor: The happy secret -
Really good talk about the “Happiness Advantage” and how you can cultivate happiness. If you like the talk, consider buying his book, The Happiness Advantage
“Anyway, if I was still in those stuffy, hateful rooms where they plotted to ban technologies, I’d print out a stack of this Matador Network infographics, which are a handy guide to the pig-ignorant campaigns that Hollywood has waged against new technologies since the industry’s founders ripped off Thomas Edison’s patents and fled to California.”—Cory Doctorow” — TODAY in BoingBoing. (via areasofmyexpertise)
(via areasofmyexpertise)
BlackBeltFactory is now KnowledgeBlackBelt -
This is a link to my profile on KnowledgeBlackBelt, it has exams on Java, and many other programming-related things.
Grail, made using divvr
WWII poster (source: treehugger) I plan on expanding my vegetable garden this year. Last year I had some success with okra, green peppers, cucumber, tomatoes, as well as basil and rosemary. There’s nothing like growing your own food. I highly recommend it.
“the stone age didn’t end for a lack of stones”