Musings

Here's to the crazy ones... the misfits; the rebels; the troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do, is ignore them; because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. **Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.** Found on a page at IT&W; ...

I haven’t watched much news lately. Yesterday was an exception. The pictures of destruction and death that I have so far been able to keep outside my attention have been haunting me since. I realize that I’m not capable of even trying to begin to understand what has happened. As the death toll rises, the pain and suffering becomes more and more abstract. We are hearing about 9 dead swiss citizens and as much time in the news is spent on them compared to the tens of thousands of natives that died or lost everything they have. The cynic in me tries to calculate the “importance” of a swiss citizen versus an indian, a tamil or a thai but gives up. ...

You might - if you have come here through the normal web address - have wondered why the site was empty, except for a lot of links. Well, I have had a lot of comment-spam and while it generally was easy to get rid of it, it has rebuilt the site. And I have specified that only the last couple of days of entries are displayed. So - after each rebuild, more content was removed. ...

"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use XML." Now they have two problems." Nice summary. This comes from an article: Python is not Java that has some other stuff that people coming from Java need to unlearn.

Every country gets the government it deserves. **How do we contact you?** Donate or send email to info[a]yourewelcomeeverybodyD0Tcom. If it’s hatemail, don’t waste your time. The email is formatted to reduce spam, make sure you replace the bracketed “a” with the at sign and the D0T with an actual period. If you cannot figure this out, ask a smarter friend. Right. [ via Don Dahlmann ]

After vowe has done it, here’s my invitation to join openBC. OpenBC seems a lot more complete than LinkedIn and it has a distinct european touch. And that sounds kind of sensible when you do business mostly (ok - exclusively) in europe. Join in!