Archive for October, 2006

Examples of organizational masturbation…

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1. Award shows “Ah…(waving his arms to try and quiet the crowd) Stop! Shh! Ah, I’d like to thank God, my mom, my dad, my beautiful fiancee who I love more than anything in the world, General Hospital, wonderful cast; Sarah Brown, Kimberly McCullough, Ron Hale, Tony Geary, Maurice Benard; John Homa, I love you, [...]

Who is killing who?

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For some reason, people think I’m a sick bastard when I tell them that losing 3000 soldiers is insignificant. Lets put this into perspective by having a little quiz. How many people were killed in WW2? (Don’t cheat!) A) One Hundred ThousandB) One MillionC) Five MillionD) Ten Million

Perl oddities

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Since Gas is writing about UI, I’ll do programming for now: Today’s example is about Perl, and a curious example about hashtables. A hashtable, as you may know, maps a key to a value. %names = (“smith” => “john”, “krall” => “diana”); foreach $lastname (keys %names) { print “$lastname, $names{$lastname}n”; } In essence, this hashtable [...]