By JFinsel on 8/27/2008 11:52 AM
Maslow said:
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.
What must programmers be?
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By JFinsel on 8/25/2008 6:51 AM
[T]here are some people who wish us to enact laws which would seriously damage the right of free speech and which could be used not only against subversive groups but against other groups engaged in political or other activities which were not generally popular.... Read More » |
By JFinsel on 8/21/2008 9:26 AM
I need to record this, maybe this weekend, but I like it. One of Eliot's best known works, at least the last refrain.
The Hollow Men
by T. S. Eliot
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By JFinsel on 8/18/2008 6:27 AM
Some stories are best told out of sequence. And the middle of this one brought to mind Lady MacBeth's infamous pet speech. You don't know Lady MacBeth's pet speech? Sure you do, it's where she gets fed up with the dog not obeying and tells it to leave the... Read More » |
By JFinsel on 8/14/2008 5:33 AM
I haven't updated on this week's progress through the HundredPushup challenge here (though I have been posting on Twitter)
Week 2, Day 1, set of 9, 8, 6, 4 and 7 for a total of 34.
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By JFinsel on 8/13/2008 9:51 PM
I will be at VS Live Dallas giving a talk on Implementing Caching Technology as One Rung of the Scalability Ladder on December 11.
As every application grows, it reaches a point where the original design causes bottlenecks that are apparent with... Read More » |
By JFinsel on 8/7/2008 4:49 AM
HundredPushup challenge Week 1, Day 3, set of 10, 8, 8, 5 and 10 for a total of 41 pushups: 104 for the week. It's not easy but it feels good to know I've seen an increase in what I've been able to do.
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By JFinsel on 8/6/2008 10:51 AM
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By JFinsel on 8/5/2008 3:30 PM
I am always amazed by public transport. I caught the second bus into work today, and I am typing this on my phone for later blogging. Tis 6:30-ish and half the folks are sleeping, about a fourth are reading and the rest are just sort of here.
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By JFinsel on 8/5/2008 4:48 AM
No, I haven't exactly just flown in from Cleveland but I have finished day two of the Hundred Pushups challenge, by which I should be able to do 100 consecutive pushups in another 5 and a half weeks... Read More » |